Its final construction was heat-formed plywood over a wooden frame, with sections glued and screwed for extra strength. It employed Ecuadorean balsawood sandwiched with Canadian birch, a particularly strong and lightweight grade of plywood. Metal was used in only a few parts, including the engine housings and some control surfaces.

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On April Fool's day in 1898, Boris encountered a unique opportunity to begin applying his eccentric theories of psychology in a real-world environment: his wife Sarah gave birth to a son. Under the tutelage of these ingenious yet neurotic parents, young William James Sidis developed into an individual with astonishing talents.

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These photos were taken at Ground Zero, the World Trade Center site in New York, on September 13, 2001.

They were taken by someone named "Ed" who was allowed into the area by a member of the emergency response crew, at a time when all civilians -- including most journalists -- were forbidden to enter the area.

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This car, manufactured by GM, has no mechanical linkages, no pedals, and generate enough electricity to power your entire street, all from salt water!

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Yes, you heard it right! This site has 99 tips to improve every bit of Windows XP's performance ranging from BIOS tweaks to overclocking your CPU and much, much more!!!
Check out this site now!!!

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"This year marks the 20th anniversary of the first PC virus. We look back at the highs and lows (well, mostly lows) of the ongoing struggle against malware."

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The wife of the only heir of the Winchester Repeating Arms Co., the company responsible for the Winchester rifle was being haunted by victims of the rifle. Her solution was to move away and build a house that was perpetually under construction. This is the story of that house.

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Over forty years ago, researchers in the Soviet Union began an ambitious drilling project whose goal was to penetrate the Earth's upper crust and sample the warm, mysterious area where the crust and mantle intermingle...

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A dark chapter of medical history. This site hosts a documentary and additional information about Howard Dully and his lobotomy at age 12. The doctor performed the lobotomy with an extremely crude medical technology - the icepick! Definitely worth a listen.

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Naturally the plane was nicknamed the "Flying Ram." The plan was simple: fly above enemy aircraft, then enter a high-speed dive and collide with an enemy's wing or vertical stabilizer. The XP-79B was designed to survive because of the heavily reinforced Titanium leading edges on the wings.

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Try to imagine a world without numbers. It would be pretty hard to get by without basic counting, such as being able to tell whether you had caught five fish or ten fish. Yet one tribe in Brazil seems to get by just fine with practically no comprehension of any mathematical concepts.

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This is crazy. It goes on forever... please. I'm begging you. Check it out...

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Some mindblowing art by Rob Gonsalves - mathematician's delight I would call it.

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"Monkey boys," "wolf girls," "gazelle boys," and even an "ostrich boy;" they are all part of the lore of the feral children.

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"The Germans had fallen for an elaborate deception designed to draw Nazi defenses away from the true Allied target: Sicily. Major Martin, the dead man the fisherman found on the beach, never existed."

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