When he decided to branch out into the global luxury aviation business in 2007, he boasted in an interview after multiple tall glasses of scotch on the rocks, "I work hard and I play hard, too. There is nothing wrong with that." He had just bought 50 Airbus planes in Paris, a $7 billion order.
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According to The Independent -- who in 2006 described the Arctic Monkeys as "Britain's latest supergroup" -- the band has just completed a grueling European tour when bassist Alex Nicholson announced that he was taking a break, as he was suffering "fatigue following an intensive period of touring."
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As the domestic goddess (and apparent fruitcake lover) herself, Martha Stewart, explained on her website, it's a sinfully rich dessert filled with dried fruits and nuts. The fruits have to be soaked in a sugar syrup before being dropped into the batter. Fruitcakes are typically very dense cakes.
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Despite getting a bum rap from humanity for their Biblical association with evil and trickery, snakes play a vital role in the circle of life. They are known predators of a voluminous amount of species, and to many others they are a delicious, nutritious source of limbless, slithering protein.
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At the time the Irwins put together their plan to save endangered animals from rapidly growing habitat destruction, they didn't believe the problem would end any time soon. It's a man-made problem caused by a mindset that will take a lot of time, dedication, and societal rebuilding to control.
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Some animal attacks on humans are surprising because you don't expect it from animals like squirrels and rabbits.
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Just about any dog owner has wondered why their pooch does that cute weird thing. But we should probably narrow that down. We're talking specifically about dogs' tendency to tilt their heads to the side, especially as a reaction to being spoken to by their master. It's an iconic gesture.
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Take a second to think about all the things you could do with $110 million. For most people, that number might as well be infinity. Is it even possible to squander over a hundred million bucks in one lifetime, let alone a few years? Ask Antoine Walker.
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Before Richard Branson was a knighted billionaire entrepreneur with a multi-national, multi-sector series of ventures, including space tourism outfit Virgin Galactic, he was a high school dropout. Then he started a record company. Here's how The Exorcist helped Richard Branson become a millionaire.
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Everyone knows that cat facts and cat videos make the internet go around. Some of the best revolve around the wacky, bizarre antics that cats get up to after indulging in their version of demon weed: catnip.
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It's man's best friend, so of course you'd like to be able to communicate with them better. You hope they understand more than the basics, like heel, sit, and stay. But does your dog really understand you? Do they grasp the concept of roll over?
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Cross waves occur when wind blows two opposing sets of wave forms towards each other at an oblique angle -- diagonal, or 45-degree. The waves collide, but do not cancel each other out, as they would if they hit head-on. Instead, they pass through.
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Halloween -- at least the way Halloween is celebrated -- is terrible for the planet. And it's not just because candy wrappers are made of plastic.
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Believe it or not, the first domesticated animals weren't for eating, or riding.
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You may know all the facts about the Pacific Ocean's depth, size, length, and more, but what you might not know is how the Pacific Ocean got its name.
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The Atlantic Ocean is the Earth's second largest body of water. According to the National Ocean Service, the Atlantic covers approximately 41,105,000 square miles, or about 20% of the Earth's surface. Yet, the title itself, the Atlantic, sounds a bit impenetrable ...
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A recent paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests a coincidental explosion at Mount Okmok, a volcano in Alaska, caused the extreme climate that decided the very end of the Republic and birth of the Empire.
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Reliable contraceptives are nearly impossible to find in the wild.
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In terms of sheer numbers, Octomom wouldn't have been difficult to beat in the field of spawning. The animal kingdom has plenty of big birthers.
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Socks or spats, the patter of white paws across the room requires either a musical accompaniment or an appropriate choir of "awws." But why white? Surely any cat in the wild would shun such attire, opting instead for something more camouflaged. So where did all these white-footed cats come from?
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Whether it's the horrific experiments led by "angel of death" Josef Mengele, the horrors of concentration camps like Ravensbruck — or, you know, Hitler — you won't be hard-pressed to find examples of Nazis being unspeakably awful.
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Over the ages, dogs have been used to perform many odd jobs alongside humans. From working in public safety, mental health and criminal justice sectors, the addition of a canine pal can prove beneficial in many situations. Can dogs detect cancer, though?
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Cats might be the new kids on the block, when it comes to domestication — the world's oldest dog breeds were around a long time before the world's oldest domestic cats — but surely, thousands of years is plenty of time to shake off bizarre superstitions... like those legends assigned to black cats.
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f a garden-variety dog could talk it'd probably inform humans that starvation sets in roughly five seconds after the plastic on a slice of processed cheese makes that distinctive crinkly noise. But how long can dogs really go without food?
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Let's start by establishing that this is a safe, judgement-free zone, and nobody is making any assumptions about anybody else, or the things that no one should ever be doing to their cat.
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Throughout the later 90s, it seemed The Wallflowers and frontman Jakob Dylan were everywhere, after bursting onto the scene in the with songs "One Headlight". If you ask some people, they'd say the band was a one-hit-wonder. But The Wallflowers are still alive and kicking -- even touring.
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Lionheart. Great nickname for a Medieval king.
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