Only one more day until the 3rd - and final -season of The Leftovers debuts! (Sunday night on HBO) From Wiki : The Leftovers starts thr...

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I'm totally against banning books; to ban a classic book such as The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn because of the "N word" ...

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Did you know that the official currency of Haiti is known as gourde, named after the gourd? (botanically classified as a fruit) In the ear...

I've given a lot of thought to getting a Kindle, but have always resisted, thinking that I would always prefer to hold and read a paper...

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I subscribe to the Ranker page on Facebook.  Ranker also has a website and the premise of the site is to list a group of things or people a...

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Checked my Google Reader a little while ago; most of the articles were uninteresting, so I hit the "Read All" button except for t...

From the site: Can you tell whether a book is any good from its cover alone? Over 10 rounds, you will be shown two books. One will have a 5 ...

From the site: The Harry Potter novels, most of us don't need to be told, are the best-selling children's books of all time. Even if...