epub, mobi |eng | | Author:John Michael Scalzi [Scalzi, John]

Source: WESH.com, Associated Press I wasn’t Speeding. The Earth Just Rotated Slower Grab a pencil: It’s time for a quiz! According to Australia’s Herald Sun newspaper, which of the following ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-08-31 | Author:Rowland, Tim [Rowland, Tim]

Word had spread that Mitchel’s army was (as originally scheduled) approaching Chattanooga, and the Confederates were evacuating as many supplies from the town as possible prior to the attack. The ...

epub |eng | | Author:David Feldman

Why Do Clocks Run “Clockwise”? In baseball, horse racing, and most forms of skating, we are accustomed to seeing a counterclockwise movement. Is there any particular reason why clocks run ...

epub |eng, eng | 2013-03-20 | Author:Joseph Cummins

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. ...

epub, azw3, mobi, pdf |eng | 2014-07-22 | Author:Randall Munroe

To act as a parachute, a balloon filled with air—rather than helium—would have to be 10 to 20 meters across, far too big to be inflated with portable tanks. A ...

epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2013-11-03 | Author:Conn Iggulden [Conn Iggulden and Hal Iggulden]

The Battle of the Nile Napoleon had taken control of Alexandria on 2 July 1798. He revered its founder, Alexander the Great, and it must have been a moment of ...

epub |eng | 2014-04-28 | Author:Michael N. Smith

From bad to worse: Caesar—known as a dedicated book-learner who rose to become an impressive legal advocate, orator, and military mind—accidentally sets it ablaze while torching his own ships in ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2011-05-12 | Author:Gael Fashingbauer Cooper

Man from Atlantis ANY time you visited a public pool, you could tell who watched Man from Atlantis.That would be the kid trying his damndest to emulate star Patrick Duffy ...

epub |eng | 2014-06-25 | Author:Alan Connor

BREAK THIS WITH SOME EGGS? FAST The urge to time your solve Got up Had shave Did Times crossword Had another shave —ROGER MCGOUGH The wonderful 2006 documentary about crosswords, ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2014-03-06 | Author:Schwarcz, Joe

Breatharians and Nutritarians Breatharians and nutritarians. Never heard of them? One represents the extent of human folly, while the other is a scientifically legitimate attempt to improve health. A breatharian ...

epub |eng | 2010-10-05 | Author:Erik Sass & Will Pearson & Mangesh Hattikudur [Sass, Erik & Pearson, Will & Hattikudur, Mangesh]

THE QUOTABLE FLEXNER Its anatomy room, containing a single cadaver, is indescribably foul … Nothing more disgraceful calling itself a medical school can be found anywhere. –on the soon-to-be-defunct Georgia ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2011-06-24 | Author:Shana Priwer

51 The perfect man One of the most famous drawings of all time is Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man of 1490 (see the cover of this book). In the original ...

epub |eng | 2014-03-10 | Author:Anna Quindlen [Anna Quindlen]

SITTING IN A TREE, AGAIN Three things happened at the beginning of December. The building in which Rebecca lived in New York announced a maintenance increase of 10 percent to ...

epub |eng | 2011-02-10 | Author:John Sutherland

This splatter for others to clear up is a main reason that Derek Humphry, the guru of ‘assisted death’ (i.e. suicide), urges against this particular ‘solution’. If it is employed ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2014-01-27 | Author:Anna Quindlen [Quindlen, Anna]

THE DOG RETURNS, AND STAYS The dog came back on Monday. Rebecca was feeling downhearted. She hated to see Ben go, and she always liked to send him on his ...