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POPSTop 10 Inspirational Quotes "9. Nora Roberts If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place. 10. Stephen Covey Begin with the end in mind"
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POPSPicture from 1922 1922. Washington policeman Bill Norton measuring the distance between knee and suit at the Tidal Basin bathing beach after Col. Sherrell, Superintendent of Public Buildings and Grounds, issued an order that suits not be over six inches above the knee."
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POPSSchool policy was to swim naked The whole article is pretty interesting. I wonder what brought about the policy change? LOL. Wow. The author attended this school in the 60s. It is interesting how the men older than him seemed to have less of a problem with it all.
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POPSJyoti Amge of Nagpur - a tiny girl with a big, beautiful smile! She's a beautiful girl and happens to be the world's smallest at 1 foot 11 inches! "Jyoti is far from unhappy about her size and enjoys the celebrity status her height has brought her. “I am proud of being small. I love all the attention I get. I’m not scared of being small and I don’t regret it. I’m just the same as other people. I eat like you, dream like you. I don’t feel any different.” she says. Her size comes with benefits — Jyoti is a mini-celebrity in her home city, where people flock to see her, and some even treat her as a goddess. She has even recorded an album with her favorite Indian pop star, the bhangra / rap singer Mika Singh. Little Jyoti has tall ambitions to one day break into Bollywood as an actress. “I would love to work in a big city like Mumbai, act in films and travel to London and America.” she said."
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POPSBath Fizzies Add Fun To Your Bath Simply fill your bath tub with water, immerse yourself in it, drop one bath fizzy in the water, and watch it as it spin, whirl and swirl in your bath while releasing wonderful fragrance, essential oils, butters and skin softening agents while you lay back, relax & enjoy all the benefits for your skin, and do not forget about the aromatic bathing experience.
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POPSWhy textbooks suck A fascinating--and horrifying, if you care at all about education--look at how the books schools use to teach your kids get made. Corporate greed, pandering to special interest groups, lowest-common-denominator thinking: all your favorite characters on parade here, parents!
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POPSBlack Death Anniversary Certainly a defining moment in world history. It's interesting that present day fundamentalists such as Falwell are still using the same arguments that their 14th century counterparts employed. You'd think that after 600+ years they'd have learned something.
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POPSA Job That Makes Life Worth Living Bill Norton, the bathing beach policeman, measuring the distance between knee and bathing suit on woman in Washington, D.C. Col. Sherrell, the Superintendent of Public Buildings and Grounds, issued an order that bathing suits at the Washington bathing beach must not be over six inches above the knee. Photo from the National Photo Company Collection, 1922.
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POPSA President's Right to Happiness Mr Sarkozy said: “You wouldn’t have asked that question of any of my predecessors. I reflected a lot on this,” he said. Alluding to Mitterrand, he said: “Everyone knew. No one talked about it. The President delivered a pugnacious defence against charges that he is stage-managing his private life to divert attention from discontent over his management of the country. “I take responsibility for my actions . . . If you feel you are being manipulated, don’t send your photographers after me,”