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Movie Buzz The documentary tells the story of a group of American evangelical sent their gay children to a “therapeutic Christian boarding school” camp in the Dominican Republic, where they were severely disciplined so they could be “transform[ed] into healthy Christian adults. Release date is unknown.
Culture Buzz Saturday marks the 165th anniversary of the birth of Thomas Edison. You probably know him as the dude that made the lightbulb. Guess what? He didn't. Keep watching to see what else he didn't actually invent.
Politics Buzz Is his staff relying too heavily on QuotationsPage.com? The candidate did hedge, a bit.
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You have to laugh at these. Or you’ll cry.
http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/01/dooms...
What would the president have said if the astronauts had become stranded on the moon? These speeches aren’t alternate history; they are actual documents that were luckily never needed.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/25/pres-john-tylers...
Try to do the math on this: John Tyler was born in 1790, and became the 10th president of the United States. And two of his grandchildren are still alive!
http://www.thedailybeast.com/galleries/2012/01/19/the-onc...
The 130-year-old company recently filed for bankruptcy and may shutter its doors for good. But in 1900, Eastman Kodak introduced the Brownie, the first mass-market camera that allowed anyone to take a picture and revolutionized the world.
http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/114551
Before people had hundreds of channels, if they wanted to watch surgery or gawk at celebrity babies, they had to actually leave the house. But at least two of these pastimes have made it into the modern era.
http://flavorwire.com/250236/10-legendary-bad-girls-of-li...
Stereotypes are for sissies. For almost three thousand years, women writers have refused to be put into a box.
http://flavorwire.com/250089/iconic-black-and-white-photo...
It's strange how color makes historical people and places more “real”. There must be some psychological explanation behind that.
http://www.history.com/news/2012/01/06/7-things-you-didnt...
Happy 600th birthday, Joan! Maybe… No official records of the date exist, and Joan herself could only guess she was 19 during her trial for heresy in 1431. Either way, we’re gonna run with it!
TV Buzz In honor of ABC's new sictom “Work It!,” here are 5 Susan B. Anthony quotes photoshopped on to screencaps. “Honor.”
Politics Buzz Gingrich said today in New Hampshire that the founding fathers would “strongly discourage” marijuana growers. Didn't Thomas Jefferson and George Washington both grow hemp?
http://www.history.com/news/2012/01/03/first-woman-to-cir...
Nearly 250 years after Jeanne Baret became the first woman to circumnavigate the planet, she is finally getting her due. A French botanist who disguised herself as a man to join Louis Antoine de Bougainville’s journey around the world, she helped classify hundreds of species.
http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/112013
These confounded technologies are dangerous and distracting to drivers! No, not cell phones. This was the rallying cry behind an attempt to ban car radios in the 1930s.
http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/111329
Santa has a problem. And we’re all horrible enablers, forcing him to consume millions of cookies and gallons of milk in one night.
http://www.trutv.com/conspiracy/bizarre/strange-sex-scand...
Whoa, whoa, whoa. What do you mean Eleanor Roosevelt was a lesbian? From a Hollywood star to the richest woman in Germany, these people were caught up in the biggest tabloid stories of their time.
http://www.theroot.com/buzz/whites-only-pool-sign-ohio
Hold up, let me make sure we haven’t all mistakenly taken a wrong turn into the 1960s. An Ohio landlord wants a state civil rights commission to reconsider its decision that found her to have discriminated against a black girl by placing a “Whites Only” sign at a swimming pool.
http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/110445
Some of America’s greatest minds scoffed at the concept of superstition. They were so flippant about the number thirteen and all its connotations that they formed the “Thirteen Club” in challenge.
http://www.history.com/news/2011/12/07/5-facts-about-pear...
On this date in 1941, Japanese fighter planes attacked the U.S. base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, launching one of the deadliest attacks in American history. Commemorate the 70th anniversary by exploring little-known facts about the attack.
As in the real deal, Jacob will make you give him the side-eye. The…
It's a veritable “Breaking Bad” buffet. Okay, technically, these…
