Top Items About Earthquakes

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TriviaA mother's stress may affect her child's sex

A boy or a girl? That is usually the first question asked when a woman gives birth. Remarkably, the answer varies with...

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JokesAmerica sends aid to Mexico

A 7.5 Earthquake Hits Mexico. 150,000 Mexicans die and over a million

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Anecdotespsychic on Wall Street?

The son of a poor Massachusetts farmer, [Jesse Livermore] was a teenager when he started working at a Boston brokerage...

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ImagesFunny ad: The Condom Store

In case of emergency, get it on!

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AnecdotesJournalist`s Torment

"The Mexican earthquake proved to be a `journalist`s torment` - the words of my colleague Tony Allen-Mills who arrived in...

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AnecdotesBuddhist Bunk?

Hideyoshi once commissioned an enormous statue of Buddha to adorn a shrine in Kyoto. In 1596, the project had just...

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AnecdotesAnecdote about Explosions, Earthquakes and TVs

Dean Cain: `During the Northridge earthquake [in January 1994]... the epicenter was about 6 miles from where I live and I...

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AnecdotesBank of Italy

"Like a lot of folks in the San Francisco area, Amadeo Peter Giannini was thrown from his bed in the wee hours of April...

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AnecdotesHecht Hoax

"Another of my stories was flashed on the city in a seven-column front page headline, `Earthquake Hits Chicago,`" Ben...

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