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Bear Grylls' Manifesto for Children: Climb mountains, take risks, ban computer games - Telegraph

This will make you feel old. My film 'Shaun Of The Dead' is 10 today. It was released on April 9th, 2004. But as a birthday gift for you, we've made available the screenplays for all three movies: ...

How many times have you seen New York City destroyed onscreen? Los Angeles? Kansas? For nearly as long as there have been movies, there have been disaster movies. The map above shows 189+ such cinematic attacks—using a very broad definition of the "disaster" genre—that have afflicted various parts of the United States. Below, you'll find each category listed as its own map, with an accompanying movie list.

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Mein Kampf legalised: Bavaria drops veto on German edition of Adolf Hitler's manifesto

Long-time readers of this blog know that I have a "ignore the idiots" rule. They also know I frequently break that rule, particularly in the face of idiocy that's so egregious that it's fall-down-i...

You’d have to be extremely desperate for the toilet to use this insane outhouse perching on a cliff that is 8,500 feet (2,600 meters) above sea level. Located in Siberia, Russia, this extremely remote outhouse serves as the sole bathroom for the brave workers of a weather station located atop the Kara-Tyurek mountain pass in the Altai Mountains. It’s so terrifying that most people would rather poop themselves than even go near it. On the other hand, it does look well ventilated and the ordeal of taking a number 2 would be scary enough to make the whole thing easy, no more constipation!

John Steinbeck, Travels With Charlie