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Monday, October 29, 2012

Posted by Patrick at 21:17

Vincent van Gogh didn't have a dominant blue period so much as maybe more a blue fling with green undertones.

Brett Kebold is a data analyst who enjoys finding representations of life all amongst us, and decided to utilize his skill at data analy...
Famous Writers Shirtless: J.K. Rowling

A fleeting internet meme happened of writers in underpants--but it passed too quickly to be truly appreciated. So, occasionally we'...
Edvard Munch is world's most expensive painter, part-time poet.

"The Scream"--Edvard Munch's crayon drawing from 1895-- sold at auction yesterday for the highest price ever publicly paid at...
Famous Writers Shirtless: Jack London

Writers are never known as the studliest or sexiest of people, but that doesn't stop them from showing some skin for the camera once ...
Charles Wolock: the world's smartest person (with a #2 pencil).

Standardized tests are amazing things that tell a lot about a person. Specifically, they tell a lot about how well someone takes standard...
The Weird History of College Mascots, No. 1: Tufts University, P.T. Barnum, and Jumbo the Elephant

Some colleges have perfectly boring mascots with no history outside a public relations-approved cartoon character. Other colleges have hist...
So which college or university sent the most students to the 2016 Olympics?

There is no major rhyme or reason explaining which schools sent the most students to the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, just lik...

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