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Team of Strangers Rushes to Rescue Family From Sinking Car

Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Two men are being called heroes after they jumped into the Oakland Estuary to rescue four people from a submerged car on Sunday. The men were coming back from a Father's Day lunch when they spotted the car in the water and people inside pounding on the glass. One of the men grabbed a... (Read more)

 

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Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Now you can share your status as an organ donor on Facebook. The simple switch prompted more than 13,000 people to register for organ donation in a single day last y... (Read more)

 
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Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Archaeologists using revolutionary airborne laser technology have discovered a lost mediaeval city that thrived on a mist-shrouded Cambodian mountain 1200 years ago.... (Read more)

   
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Tuesday, June 18, 2013

When the new trailer came out last week for the "Hobbit" sequel, "The Desolation of Smaug", two fans decided to record their reactions to seeing it for the first tim... (Read more)

   

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  • 390 years ago today, Blaise Pascal, the French mathematician and philosopher was born in 1623. At age eleven, he showed an amazing aptitude for math and science and later, in an effort to ease his father's endless calculations and recalculations of taxes owed and paid, Pascal constructed a mechanical calculator. He philosophized that all men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone."
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