Category: Images
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Thinking West: UFOs
According to a recent tweet posted by the CIA, the UFOs seen in the Southwest, among other places, were piloted by human beings and not extraterrestrials (a.k.a. little green men). What was the CIA up to? Apparently UFO sitings were really sitings of U-2 spy planes. Check out the CIA’s official history on the U-2…
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Breakdown of the Writing Process (via Writer’s Circle)
Be sure to check out the Writer’s Circle on Facebook.
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Thinking West: The Pineapple Express (Weather)
In December 2014, many Americans watched news coverage of torrential downpours in California. The torrential downpours, still occurring when this post was written, came at a time when California had been in the midst of the worst drought in its history. (Ironically NOAA claimed that California’s drought was not man-made but naturally caused…
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Thinking West: The West in Pictures
Check out the National Archives’ collection of pictures from the American West.
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Thinking West: Hunting West
In the mythic West, game the size of dinosaurs and mastodons roams the sun-parched land. This makes it incredibly difficult for those (new) western settlers from Eastern shores to obtain fresh meat. Thus, new settlers have needed to adapt their hunting techniques by seeking weapons only meant for the likes of Goliath.
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Portugal
According to the CIA World Factbook, Portugal is slightly smaller in size than Indiana. In 2001, Portugal decriminalized drug possession, which precipitated in fewer drug crimes and even fewer drug abuse cases amongst Portugal’s youth. Portugal was one of the world’s leading maritime powers during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. During the early years of…
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Thinking West: Tortillas in Space
Tortillas are part of the Southwestern diet, displacing the tasteless, crumby sliced bread. You can roll them. You can stuff them. You can use tortillas to clean your plate or shovel morsels of beans and meat into your already stuffed mouth. Tortillas are the Swiss Army knives of food. They’re served in restaurants and sold…
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15 Words you never knew came from literature (Infographic)
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Best Books of the 21st Century (USC Rossier)
What do you guys think? Anything missing from this list? What should be excluded from this list? Leave your suggestions in a comment. (Check out the original feature.) Original Source: http://rossieronline.usc.edu/best-books-of-the-21st-century-infographic/
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The World’s Greatest Storytellers (According to Raconteur)
Check out the original feature at Raconteur.
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Thinking West: Advertisements for Western Land
Thousands went West believing the hype surrounding those western lands being sold by the nation’s railroads. Railroad companies sold the West as a place of prosperity and plenty. The West was an edenic paradise, where one could grow grapes the size of watermelons and melons the size of wagons–a true land of milk and honey.…
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