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A Shaolin Monk Throwing A Needle Through A Pane Of Glass Is One Of The Craziest Things We’ve Seen In A While

A Shaolin Monk Throwing A Needle Through A Pane Of Glass Is One Of The Craziest Things We’ve Seen In A While
The Slow Mo Guys can make anything look cool, but they barely needed to do anything with this one — the needle doesn’t shatter the glass pane, it literally goes straight through it.
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minaudière: Word of the day for February 27, 2018

minaudière , n :
(obsolete) A woman who is exaggeratedly affected or coquettish. A type of formal, decorative women’s clutch bag without handles or a strap. Today is the start of Paris Fashion Week for women’s fashion in 2018.

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Paragliding Skier Triggers Avalanche, Races It Down The Mountain

Paragliding Skier Triggers Avalanche, Races It Down The Mountain
One of the advantages of paraglide skiing? When things get a bit too hairy on the ground, you can take off for a bit.
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Wikipedia article of the day for February 27, 2018

The Wikipedia article of the day for February 27, 2018 is Olivia Manning.
Olivia Manning (1908–1980) was a British novelist, poet, writer and reviewer. Her fiction and non-fiction, frequently detailing journeys and personal odysseys, were principally set in England, Ireland, Europe and the Middle East. Her first serious novel, The Wind Changes, was published in 1937. She lived in Bucharest, Romania, and in Greece, Egypt and Palestine, as Nazi Germany overran Eastern Europe. Her experiences helped form the six novels making up The Balkan Trilogy and The Levant Trilogy, known collectively as Fortunes of War. The overall quality of her output was considered uneven by critics, but this series, published between 1960 and 1980, was described by Anthony Burgess as “the finest fictional record of the war produced by a British writer”. Manning returned to London after the war, writing poetry, short stories, novels, non-fiction, reviews, and drama for the British Broadcasting Corporation. As she had feared, real fame only came after her death, when an adaptation of Fortunes of War was televised in 1987.

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The Game ‘Papers, Please’ Works Just As Well In This Short Film Adaptation

The Game ‘Papers, Please’ Works Just As Well In This Short Film Adaptation
“Papers, Please” put players in the role of a border crossing agent tasked with deciding who does and doesn’t gain entry to his country. This short film by Nikita Ordynskiy captures the game’s mood perfectly.
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Wikipedia article of the day for February 26, 2018

The Wikipedia article of the day for February 26, 2018 is Stegoceras.
Stegoceras, a pachycephalosaurid (dome-headed) dinosaur, lived in what is now North America during the Late Cretaceous period, about 77.5 to 74 million years ago. (This genus is unrelated to Stegosaurus, which lived more than 70 million years earlier.) Small and bipedal, Stegoceras was about 2 to 2.5 metres (6.6 to 8.2 ft) long and weighed around 10 to 40 kilograms (22 to 88 lb). It had a rigid vertebral column and a stiffened tail. The pelvic region was broad, perhaps due to an extended gut. The skull was roughly triangular with a short snout, topped by a thick, broad, and relatively smooth dome. The skull jutted out in the back over the occiput, and had a thick ridge over the eyes. The teeth were small and serrated. The skull is thought to have been flat in juvenile animals, growing into a dome with age. The dome may have been used for combat, display, or recognition. Specimens have been found in the Dinosaur Park and Oldman Formations in Alberta, and the Fruitland and Kirtland Formations in the US.

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