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Each year the Princeton Review puts out its list of Best Party Schools (US colleges and universities) and so in read more »

Tennis is one of the most graceful and beautiful sports to enjoy as a spectator. The game is also graced read more »

Some people manage to age gracefully, getting better with age like a fine wine, as the saying goes. Others just read more »

In the 100+ years that the US Open Tennis Championship has been played, interest in tennis has soared. In the read more »

  In the 100+ years that the US Open Tennis Championship has been played, interest in tennis has soared. In read more »

– Matt’s genius is usually locked safely away in his brain. Washington Foundation Repair companies . proactol . MLM Team read more »

On this day – September 5 – we take a look back in time. This list presents Twenty Memorable Events read more »

In 1949 the FBI came up with a list of the hardest criminals to catch and due to great public read more »

Matt’s genius is usually locked safely away in his brain. Take a step not only through Matt’s front door, but read more »

The list of the oldest universities in the world varies, depending on how one defines a university. If a university read more »

The Rothschild dynasty has been around for centuries. Legend has it that the family banking fortune began with the British read more »

Infidelity, the ugly word: maybe your partner cheats – happens all the time, right? Maybe something else happens that would read more »

So many things in every day life make life much easier, better or just convenient, but are just there as read more »

These are the top songs for each year as published by Billboard Magazine Top 100 year-end charts (USA only). The read more »

Vampires have become an integral part of modern culture, from true believers to those who love to be entertained with read more »

Money comes and money goes, but economies keep on moving forward. There are certainly hundreds, maybe thousands, of currencies that read more »

There are a couple of articles and postings in this blog about Canada, and this one deals with song themes read more »

Everyone knows about the Warren Buffets, the oil sheiks of the Middle East and Bill Gates’ of the world, but read more »

The recent financial crisis and recession have been a worldwide occurrence. The events in the United States since 2008 have read more »

Benjamin Franklin was one of the most practical inventors in history. He built many devices that were designed to help read more »

Since the UK-based British Petroleum has trashed the beautiful coastline of the Gulf of Mexico, the company has become the read more »

Bibliomania – taken from the Greek, meaning book-madness – is the term used for the hobby of book collecting. Prior read more »

The Sossusvlei, Namibia’s famous highlight in the heart of the Namib Desert, is a huge clay pan, enclosed by giant read more »

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It is a truth about human nature: like it or not, verbal sparring is part of just about anything remotely read more »

Many special cars have been created for the big screen, but there are some that really stand out as memorable. read more »

In the wake of the vampire mania that is sweeping the nation, it is timely to post a list of read more »

Just like plants, animals have evolved stunning characteristics and brilliant mechanisms for defending themselves passively. Whether it’s the ability to read more »

Although the New Moon series certainly introduced the modern generation to the world of vampires, werewolves and other supernatural creatures, read more »

Men are predictable animals. They fall into routines, including their social lives, when schedules and regular patterns don’t need to read more »

Faith, mythology, tribal legends have all handed down stories through the generations. Stories of places long forgotten in time and read more »

// < ![CDATA[ // ]]> The Victorian Era is defined, quite literally, as the time of the reign of Queen read more »

These are not gross, gory pics. longboard wheels . Mississippi foundation repair contractor . No blood spatters or dead bodies; read more »

Death and taxes – the only sure things in life. Of the impending demise that we all inevitably face, Winston read more »

A picture is worth 1,00 words, and it can also be worth a couple of thousand – or more – read more »

// < ![CDATA[   // ]]> Everybody loves a good bad guy Even if it means you love to hate read more »

In a press release on January 14, 2010 it was announced that an expedition to the coastal rainforests of western read more »

Best saves list (here) deserves a balancing entry – the Top 10 Best Goals scored in World Cup 2006. This read more »

This is a video compilation of the Top 10 best saves of the previous tournament as assembled by the fans read more »

// < ![CDATA[ // ]]> For a lot of people, cars are more than just a ride. They are image, read more »

Reach for the sky, pardner! The western – it?s so much more than a movie genre. To some it represents read more »

Everyone has likely had a moment when something has hurt so much, that you just want to reach inside yourself read more »

Smoke in the car? It is becoming increasingly common in many countries to hear about laws being passed that prohibit read more »

Lots of people commute to work, every day all around the world. And really, there can’t be too many who read more »

UPDATE (June 1, 2010): Guatamala – Tropical Storm Agatha: A massive hole, caused by rains from the tropical storm Agatha,  read more »

Bad hair knows no bounds, and while some just have their days, these hair styles had their years – even read more »

Like any sport, hockey has its traditions, its idiosyncrasies and a dedicated fan base. Many of the traditions kick in read more »

Cloning popular websites into WordPress Themes has become a popular phenomenon. Since this appears to be legal and nobody has read more »

It may seem as if the rush to alternative fuels and electric/hybrid cars is a new fad, but in fact read more »

Style and fuel economy are no longer strangers to each other. With consumers becoming  increasingly conscious of environmental issues and read more »

Extreme sports is a loose term to describe any kind of physical activity which has some risk of danger attached read more »

Do you shop for special days at the last minute in the 24-hour drug store or service station? Mother’s Day read more »

For anyone who wonders what the benefits of being a man might be – this is Part II of the read more »

Some say it’s a man’s world – maybe so. Not to say that it is any easier being a man read more »

Pirates are still out there. According to the world’s anti-piracy organization, the International Maritime Bureau (IMB), Somali pirates attacked ships read more »

Is it a sharp turn away from book in the digital age? Perhaps people are reading less, and perhaps the read more »

Have you ever wondered where some well-known companies got their names? Anyone who has had the task of coming up read more »

Most people are well aware of the “A-list” ancient empires and civilizations – Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Cartheginian, etc – but read more »

Dutch-born trance DJ & producer, Tijs Verwest began as a DJ at various school parties and later as a resident read more »

tankless water heater company . long boards . With a strong presence in the realm of African football thanks to read more »

Men, take note – this list is for you! From a compilation of many women interviewed comes a list of read more »

This great video clip features a lot of “4 Chord” pop tunes done in a funny parody by this band. read more »

Great songs get played by great bands, and this list is all about both. This list is not meant to read more »

Almost everyone knows at least one of Nintendo characters – Mario, Sonic, Zelda – and the company has sold zillions read more »

In an interesting look back on this day in history, this list presents some of the notable or otherwise just read more »

The Vatican has previously denounced rock music as the devil’s work, but oh how times have changed. In February 2010, read more »

Blowing up the world would be easy – but where did it start and how did we get here? When read more »

Many languages assign gender to their words, such as French, Spanish, Italian, where words are masculine or feminine. English does read more »

Easter is about lots of things for many people. but for most kids – and quite a few adults – read more »

And if the headline for this post caught your attention, these are not celebrities from each others’ families. This is read more »

This is one of the coolest clocks ever…

Looking back, yes indeed, hindsight does give 20:20 vision. It’s easy to be right after things have happened, but it read more »

Sure, we are all perfect in hindsight, but it’s fun to look back. So when experts talk people tend to read more »

In 1927, one of the biggest visionaries in movie history – Mr Harry M Warner, of the famed studio in read more »

There are Olympic gold medals for athletics, Oscar and Felix statues for movies, lots of awards for music, Emmys for read more »

This post features optical illusions that use colour, space and shape to fool the eye. Each of the pieces will read more »

The human body, although a very efficient bit of engineering indeed, has a couple of spare parts. And these spare read more »

So many postings are US-centric I thought it would be good to post something that gives another view to the accomplishments of another country. And since I am Canadian, well – here is a list of 10 great things that Canada has contributed to the world. By many standards, Canada is a relatively young country yet has managed to give us all some wonderful gems during her 142 year history, ranging from arts and culture to science and astronomy. While it is difficult to narrow down all that Canada has brought forth and shared, here are some of the more visible and globally impacting of the many. read more »

Facebook, MySpace, and a couple of other well known sites began as concepts that were highly dubious, at best, when read more »

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Factoids can be fun, especially when they are nice to have and not must have. The things we have to read more »

REPOSTED: First Superman, then Batman set new records, only 3 days apart! The highly successful “comic book” movies introduced the read more »

see Part I here; see Part II here There is no shortage of examples of very questionable marketing decisions that read more »

Over 600 years ago, visionaries in Italy recorded designs for wind driven vehicles. The first was Guido da Vigevano in read more »

Most plants contain some level of toxins (like alkaloids) for defense. After all, they’re plants. They can’t go anywhere but read more »

The phenomenon of Independent Multiple Discovery is interesting – how more than one person has made the same discovery without read more »

A casual and easy list on some fun and interesting ways to help make some use of your time spent read more »

LOP – Lists o Plenty – iPhone/iPod Touch App is here! Lists o Plenty is now available in app for read more »