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		<title>List o&#8217; 10 Everyday Things Made in Prisons</title>
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 Remember the old movies where convicts stamp out license plates. Well, that was then, and nowadays the United States has seen a recent increase in the number of private firm/correctional facility partnerships that uses prison labour to manufacture goods and provide services. On the rise since the creation of the Prison Industries Enhancement (PIE) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://listsoplenty.com/blog/archives/9996</link>
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		<title>List o’ 10 Interesting Geography Factoids</title>
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Small facts about our big world.
Factoid – a small fact, sometimes called trivia, factlet or even mini-fact. Dictionaries call a factoid either an insignificant bit of trivia or an urban legend turned accepted truth over time. Lists o’ Plenty calls a factoid an interesting bit of information that may come up somewhere over coffee or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://listsoplenty.com/blog/archives/10010</link>
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		<title>The Beatles Have Made the Charts &#8211; Again!</title>
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These visualizations are part of an extensive study of the music of the Beatles. Many of the diagrams and charts are based on secondary sources, including but not limited to sales statistics, biographies, recording session notes, sheet music, and raw audio readings.
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		<link>http://listsoplenty.com/blog/archives/9769</link>
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		<title>List o&#8217; Top 20 Party Schools of 2010 &#8211; Really?</title>
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Each year the Princeton Review puts out its list of Best Party Schools (US colleges and universities) and so in the spirit of Back To School today, this list is reprinted here in LOP (note that this is not an LOP written list!). How much does the party school ranking matter? Should students make decisions [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://listsoplenty.com/blog/archives/10023</link>
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		<title>List o&#8217; Top Ten Hottest Female Tennis Stars</title>
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Tennis is one of the most graceful and beautiful sports to enjoy as a spectator. The game is also graced with a great many beautiful players, and in the professional women&#8217;s tennis circuit there are certainly some players who have the rare combination of talent, athleticism and beauty. This post presents some of the hottest [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://listsoplenty.com/blog/archives/9909</link>
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		<title>List o&#8217; Top 10 Habits That Make You Look Older</title>
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Some people manage to age gracefully, getting better with age like a fine wine, as the saying goes. Others just seem to fall apart completely, looking years older than they really are. Sure, there may be some genetics at work there, but many people have habits and lifestyles that bring it on, big time. This [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://listsoplenty.com/blog/archives/9687</link>
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		<title>List o&#8217; Selected Stats About the US Open Tennis Tournament &#8211; The Women</title>
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In the 100+ years that the US Open Tennis Championship has been played, interest in tennis has soared. In the spirit of the tournament that is half-way through at the time of this post, LOP presents a selection of stats on women&#8217;s champions, players and top achievers of the modern era of the US Open [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://listsoplenty.com/blog/archives/9901</link>
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		<title>List o&#8217; Selected Stats About the US Open Tennis Tournament &#8211; The Men</title>
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In the 100+ years that the US Open Tennis Championship has been played, interest in tennis has soared. In the spirit of the tournament that is half-way through at the time of this post, LOP presents a selection of stats on mens champions, players and top achievers of the modern era of the US Open [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://listsoplenty.com/blog/archives/9881</link>
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		<title>Matt’s House “Mastering Master Socket”</title>
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Matt&#8217;s genius is usually locked safely away in his brain. But we take a step not only through Matt&#8217;s front door, but into his mind&#8217;s eye, to see your internet connection the way he does. See if you can pick up some tips to make your connection faster in &#8216;Matt&#8217;s House&#8217;.

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Related posts:Matt’s House “Cheering up [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://listsoplenty.com/blog/archives/9868</link>
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		<title>List o&#8217; 20 Events On This Day in History &#8212; September 5</title>
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On this day &#8211; September 5 &#8211; we take a look back in time. This list presents Twenty Memorable Events that happened on September 5, this day in history, to track what this day on the calendar celebrates in our common, shared past.

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This Day in History: Sept. 5 &#8211; #20-16

20. Philips van [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://listsoplenty.com/blog/archives/9814</link>
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		<title>Very First Top Ten FBI Most Wanted List &#8211; 1950</title>
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In 1949 the FBI came up with a list of the hardest criminals to catch and due to great public support this led to the creation of the first &#8216;Ten Most Wanted Fugitives&#8217; list on March 14 1950. The saying goes that &#8220;the FBI always get their man&#8221;. This list looks at the very first [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://listsoplenty.com/blog/archives/9771</link>
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		<title>Matt’s House “Cheering up Internet”</title>
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Matt&#8217;s genius is usually locked safely away in his brain. Take a step not only through Matt&#8217;s front door, but into his mind&#8217;s eye, to see your internet connection the way he does. See if you can pick up some tips to make your connection faster in &#8216;Matt&#8217;s House&#8217;.
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Related posts:Matt’s House “Mastering Master Socket”
List o&#8217; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://listsoplenty.com/blog/archives/9859</link>
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		<title>List o&#8217; Top 10 Oldest Universities on Earth</title>
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The list of the oldest universities in the world varies, depending on how one defines a university. If a university is considered to be a degree granting institution, all of the world&#8217;s oldest universities are located in Europe, where the practice of granting certification was widespread by the 1100s. However, many institutions of advanced learning [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://listsoplenty.com/blog/archives/9496</link>
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		<title>List o&#8217; Many Banks Allegedly Under Rothschild Ownership</title>
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The Rothschild dynasty has been around for centuries. Legend has it that the family banking fortune began with the British defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo, when Meyer Rothschild established the investments required to back Britain in the war effort. From that start, the family followed the colonialism of European powers and branched out throughout Europe, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://listsoplenty.com/blog/archives/9519</link>
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		<title>List o&#8217; Top Ten Reasons Women Stick Around</title>
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Infidelity, the ugly word: maybe your partner cheats &#8211; happens all the time, right? Maybe something else happens that would normally be grounds for breaking up. But not every wife goes down the path of divorce and split ups; some women stick around, and the magic question is always why. There may be one or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://listsoplenty.com/blog/archives/9689</link>
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		<title>List o&#8217; 10 Inventions That &#8220;Fly Under the Radar&#8221;</title>
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So many things in every day life make life much easier, better or just convenient, but are just there as part of the daily landscape. We don&#8217;t usually think of the fact that someone had to invent these things and actually get from an idea to a working model to mass production and adoption. Sounds [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://listsoplenty.com/blog/archives/9338</link>
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		<title>List o&#8217; 10 Memorable Exploding Head Movie Scenes</title>
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Sometimes movies do indeed &#8220;mess with your head&#8221;, but in this case that phrase is taken quite literally. These movies actually make quite a mess with human heads, since it is high up on the shock scale and can give a scene the &#8220;oomph&#8221; factor that takes a movie and its audience to a whole [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://listsoplenty.com/blog/archives/9606</link>
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		<title>List o&#8217; Top Ten Stories Behind The Top 10 Hits of 2001-2010</title>
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These are the top songs for each year as published by Billboard Magazine Top 100 year-end charts (USA only). The Billboard Hot 100 ranks the top 100 songs regardless of genre and is frequently used as the standard measure for ranking songs in the United States based on physical sales, digital sales, and radio airplay. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://listsoplenty.com/blog/archives/9488</link>
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		<title>List o&#8217; Ten Great Movie Vampires</title>
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 Vampires have become an integral part of modern culture, from true believers to those who love to be entertained with horror and blood-lust. There have been countless movies made about vampires, all stemming from the original adaption of the Bram Stoker novel and the classic portrayal of Dracula by Bela Lugosi. Every fan will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://listsoplenty.com/blog/archives/9551</link>
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		<title>List o&#8217; 10 Currencies No Longer in Circulation</title>
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Money comes and money goes, but economies keep on moving forward. There are certainly hundreds, maybe thousands, of currencies that were once the backbone of commerce and trade in their day that are no longer in use. This list presents ten currencies that have recently gone out of circulation.

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10. Florin (Italian coin): 1252

The first [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://listsoplenty.com/blog/archives/9498</link>
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		<title>List o&#8217; Top Ten Songs By Canadian Bands About Canada</title>
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There are a couple of articles and postings in this blog about Canada, and this one deals with song themes about the Great White North. Many of these songs are well known, and have made the list for that among other reasons. Sure there are lots of underground songs that never really see the light [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://listsoplenty.com/blog/archives/9420</link>
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		<title>List o&#8217; Top 10 Wealthiest Historical Figures</title>
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 Everyone knows about the Warren Buffets, the oil sheiks of the Middle East and Bill Gates&#8217; of the world, but there have been others throughout history who have achieved colossal wealth, whether through building political empires or personal business fortunes, that dwarf the ones we know today. This list presents ten of the wealthiest [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://listsoplenty.com/blog/archives/9402</link>
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		<title>Top 6 European Countries Deepest in Debt</title>
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The recent financial  crisis and recession have been a worldwide occurrence. The events in the United States since 2008 have garnered most of the headlines because the U. S. has the world&#8217;s largest economy and national debt, but the reality is that many countries in Europe are in worse financial shape and continue to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://listsoplenty.com/blog/archives/9455</link>
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		<title>List o&#8217; Top 10 Inventions by Benjamin Franklin</title>
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Benjamin Franklin was one of the most practical inventors in history. He built many devices that were designed to help improve or solve everyday problems. Some of his inventions, like bifocal glasses, are well-known, while others are more obscure. Of the numerous inventions Franklin created, he did not patent a single one. Franklin believed that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://listsoplenty.com/blog/archives/9398</link>
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		<title>List o&#8217; Top Ten New Slogans for BP</title>
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Since the UK-based British Petroleum has trashed the beautiful coastline of the Gulf of Mexico, the company has become the most recent poster child for environmental disaster. (Exxon &#8211; aren&#8217;t you glad the Valdiz has now been eclipsed?). The company has had very bad press about how it has handled the matter, from the ridiculously [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://listsoplenty.com/blog/archives/9408</link>
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		<title>List o&#8217; 10 Rarest Printed Books</title>
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Bibliomania &#8211; taken from the Greek, meaning book-madness &#8211; is the term used for the hobby of book collecting. Prior to the Internet age, the value of a dealer was the time and expertise needed to find rare books. Now a web site that compiles the catalogues of numerous sellers gives collectors instant and simultaneous [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://listsoplenty.com/blog/archives/9385</link>
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		<title>List o&#8217; 17 Photos: Sossusvlei, Namib Desert, Namibia</title>
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The Sossusvlei, Namibia&#8217;s famous highlight in the heart of the Namib Desert, is a huge clay pan, enclosed by giant sand dunes. Some of the spectacular hills of sand are, at a height of 300 metres, the highest in the world. In addition to the sea of red sand dunes, Sossusvlei is also home [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://listsoplenty.com/blog/archives/9306</link>
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		<title>List o&#8217; Photoshop Weirdness &#8211; A Gallery</title>
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&#8212;♦♦♦&#8212; more bizarrely cool touched photos  &#8212;♦♦♦&#8212;

Gallery: Photo-shopped VI






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		<link>http://listsoplenty.com/blog/archives/9312</link>
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		<title>List o&#8217; 10 Professionals Crazy Trash Talking</title>
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It is a truth about human nature: like it or not, verbal sparring is part of just about anything remotely resembling a sports contest. The typical trash talk usually includes jabs about athletic skills being not much better than one&#8217;s  mother&#8217;s &#8211; it would be perfect if mom actually appeared from the crowd and make [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://listsoplenty.com/blog/archives/8647</link>
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		<title>List o&#8217; Top 10 Favorite Movie Cars</title>
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Many special cars have been created for the big screen, but there are some that really stand out as memorable. Futuristic, gadget-loaded, gizmo-rich or just funky &#8211; movies have provided a great selection of cars that we wish we could have, cars that have taken us for very real rides in the movies. This list [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://listsoplenty.com/blog/archives/8495</link>
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		<title>List o&#8217; 12 Cool Mythical Creatures: Part I</title>
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In the wake of the vampire mania that is sweeping the nation, it is timely to post a list of top 12 Mythical Monsters. After all, there is much more than just the vampire out there to scare and excite us. Here are some other cool creatures of mythology that keep us on our toes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://listsoplenty.com/blog/archives/9294</link>
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		<title>List o&#8217; 10 Cool Cases of Animal Camouflage</title>
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Just like plants, animals have evolved stunning characteristics and brilliant mechanisms for defending themselves passively. Whether it’s the ability to change color or actually resemble other objects, the wondrous ways in which animals camouflage themselves from predators is fascinating.

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10. Ghillie Sniper

The Ghillie Poncho allows one of the deadliest predators on the planet &#8211; man [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://listsoplenty.com/blog/archives/9289</link>
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		<title>List o&#8217; Top 10 Movie Werewolves</title>
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Although the New Moon series certainly introduced the modern generation to the world of vampires, werewolves and other supernatural creatures, our fascination with mythical monsters is as old as human legend itself. This love of the wicked is reflected throughout the history of movie making, with themes of horror and monsters drawing in audiences since [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://listsoplenty.com/blog/archives/9208</link>
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		<title>List o&#8217; 10 Types of Guys Who Leave Parties</title>
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Men are predictable animals. They fall into routines, including their social lives, when schedules and regular patterns don’t need to exist like they do at work, guys tend to repeat actions. When having a party, it’s incredibly easy to forecast how each of your friends will leave that night. Guys fall into one of 10 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://listsoplenty.com/blog/archives/9284</link>
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		<title>List o’ 10 Interesting Mythical Places</title>
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 Faith, mythology, tribal legends have all handed down stories through the generations. Stories of places long forgotten in time and physical presence, but places that we still believe in. This list presents some of those Mythological Places.

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10. Hawaiki

Hawaiki is perhaps the single most important land in the Maori culture and is is deeply [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://listsoplenty.com/blog/archives/9182</link>
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