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Culinary Tools, charted ;)

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Click to get there and zoom in on each and every tool ;)

Flags of every country, an interactive map

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Just click to get there! Thank you, Charts Bin ;)

Mad Men, charted

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Thank you, I Love Charts

International Mother Language Day - Dia Internacional da Língua Materna

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One does not simply walk into Mordor

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As bad lots go, you can't get much worse than the hordes of Mordor from J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings." Led by an utterly evil disembodied entity who manifests himself as a gigantic, flaming, pitiless eye, and composed of loathsome orcs (or goblins), trolls and foreigners, Mordor's armies are ultimately defeated and wiped out by the virtuous and noble elves, dwarfs, ents and human beings -- aka the "free peoples" -- of Middle-earth. No one sheds a tear over Mordor's downfall, although the hobbit Sam Gamgee does spare a moment to wonder if a dead enemy soldier is truly evil or has simply been misguided or coerced into serving the dark lord Sauron. Well, there's two sides to every story, or to quote a less banal maxim, history is written by the winners. That's the philosophy behind "The Last Ringbearer," a novel set during and after the end of the War of the Ring (the climactic battle at the end of "The Lord of the Rin...

Constantin Brâncusi - 135th birthday as Google Doodle

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So True... Buying Vs Renting Books (thanx to Geek Chic :)

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Let There Be Light - Thomas Edison in Google Doodle

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Amazing Google Doodle: Jules Verne

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Almeida Garrett, a Portuguese Google Doodle

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