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2 FaversShareViewed: 1 TimeQuoted: This legend is not true. Although some versions of the Santa Claus figure still had him attired in various colors of outfits past the beginning of the 20th century, the jolly, ruddy, sack-carrying Santa with a red suit and flowing white whiskers had become the standard image of Santa Claus by the 1920s, several years before Sundlom drew his first Santa illustration for Coca-Cola.
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Coca-Cola certainly helped make Santa Claus one of the most popular men in America, but they didn't invent him.
2 FaversShareViewed: 5 TimesQuoted: Apparently, the world is going to end on December 21st, 2012. Yes, you read correctly, in some way, shape or form, the Earth (or at least a large portion of
Fascinating...and disgusting.
1 FaverShareViewed: 23 TimesQuoted: A nuclear war may not trouble them, but does decapitation?
Wikimipedia's Category listing for Medeival European creatures and monsters!
1 FaverShareViewed: 5 Times1 FaverShareViewed: 7 TimesQuoted: The story of ever-increasing divorce is a powerful narrative. It is also wrong. In fact, the divorce rate has been falling continuously over the past quarter-century, and is now at its lowest level since 1970.
Good dot - I REALLY wish people would check this before they forward all of the cr@p emails to me...
49 FaversShareViewed: 2 TimesI just finished his new book - Myths, Lies and Downright Stupidity. Fast read - very enjoyable (but will get you mad as well).
One interesting part of his book, (all of which come from 20/20 segments he's done, I believe), is that he admitted to a "happiness expert", is that he's basically not a very happy person - mainly because he worries a lot. He had a brain scan that showed that he had a relatively inactive "left frontal lobe" - which supposedly is very active for naturally happy people.
1 FaverShareViewed: 2 TimesQuoted: We asked the anchor of ABC's 20/20 what he's reading, watching, and listening to.
A nice collection of medeival and Classical monsters and creatures. Good for fantasy/horror writers!
1 FaverShareViewed: 16 TimesQuoted: The following annotated bibliographyon the lung, or Oriental dragon, was written by Jeremiah Mattson for Kip Wheeler's English 199 Class, Writings About Medieval Monsters, on July 19, 2002.
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I don't know, I'm not convinced....
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