A History of Kennedy Family Tragedies
From lobotomies to explosions and assassinations, a look at the disasters that have befallen the family.
Hunter S. Thompson
July 18, 1937 – February 20, 2005“My concept of death for a long time was to come down that mountain road at 120 and just keep going straight right there, burst out through the barrier and hang out above all that… and there I’d be, sitting in the front seat, stark naked, with a case of whiskey next to me and a case of dynamite in the trunk… honking the horn, and the lights on, and just sit there in space for an instant, a human bomb, and fall down into that mess of steel mills. It’d be a tremendous goddam explosion. No pain. No one would get hurt. I’m pretty sure, unless they’ve changed the highway, that launching place is still there. As soon as I get home, I ought to take the drive just to check it out.”
- Hunter S. Thompson
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Yesterday, I saw pig feet and pig ears as big as this guy ^ at the commissary. What up, Mississippi?
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Marriage’s Bumpy History: Photos
President Obama’s endorsement of gay marriage is just the latest turn in the long, bumpy evolution of marriage.
Count your blessings and not the calories. Weigh your options and not your self worth. Starve your self hatred and not your body. Hate the disorder and not yourself.
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The highest-resolution image of Earth ever made
This is the highest resolution image of Earth ever made, 121 megapixels. That’s an amazing 0.62 miles per pixel. It was taken by Russia’s latest weather satellite, the Electro-L, which is orbiting Earth on a geostationary orbit 36,000 kilometers above the equator, sending photographs of the entire planet every 30 minutes.
The image combines four light wavelengths, three visible and one infrared. The three reflected sunlight bands can simulate a conventional red-green-blue color picture. The near infrared channel (orange in the image) is a vegetation indicator, since plants reflect near-ir as well as green.
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Keepers at the Safari Park report that Charlees is getting bigger and more adventurous every day.
Greater one-horned rhino calf, Charlees on Flickr. Charlees is the 61st greater one-horned rhino born here since 1975, making the Park the foremost breeding facility in the world for this species. We’re also the first facility in the Western Hemisphere to have a successfully reproducing group of third & fourth-generation rhinos of this species.
