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[color=#333333]Thomas Sankara: The Upright Man[/color]

[color=#333333]Thomas Isidore Noël Sankara (December 21, 1949 – October 15, 1987) was a Burkinabé military captain, Marxist revolutionary, Pan-Africanist theorist, and President of Burkina Faso from 1983 to 1987. Viewed as a charismatic and iconic figure of revolution, he is commonly referred to as "Africa's Che Guevara".[/color]

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[color=#333333][size=3]This 102 yr old man has driven the same Rolls Royce for 82 years--A 1928 Rolls Royce[/size][/color]
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[color=#333333]Mr.Kalayanasundaram sHa_clap4[/color][color=#333333] [/color]

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Twin June evarra babu.... ippudu calm ga family tho bratukutunda.... ekkadundo? _*hiDe

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Twin June evarra babu.... ippudu calm ga family tho bratukutunda.... ekkadundo? _*hiDe
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Thana story chaala twists vunnayi kaani real ga ela vuntaro mari

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[color=#333333]Nuremberg Nazi rally, 1937[/color]

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[color=#333333]Victims of Forced Love[/color]

[color=#333333]Somayeh became depre ssed and isolated. She leaves the house only for medical visits.[/color]

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[color=#333333]First View of Earth From Moon [/color]

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[color=#333333]Bruce Lee could ###### a dime off a person's open palm and leave a penny behind, all this before they could close it.[/color]

[color=#333333]Other interesting facts about Bruce Lee’s amazing physical accomplishments include: [/color]

[color=#333333]Bruce Lee could land a punch in around five hundredths of a second (0.05 second) from 3 feet away, and from 5 feet away it was around eight hundredths of a second (0.08 second). [/color]

[color=#333333]Lee could take in one arm a 75 lb barbell from a standing position with the barbell held flush against his chest and slowly stick his arms out locking them, holding the barbell there for several seconds.

Lee could perform one-hand push-ups using only the thumb and index finger. Lee performed 50 reps of one-arm chin-ups.

Lee could cause a 300-lb (136.08 kg) bag to fly towards and thump the ceiling with a sidekick.

Lee could hold an elevated v-sit position for 30 minutes or longer.
Lee performed a sidekick while training with James Coburn and broke a 150 lb (68 kg) punching bag.

In a move that has been dubbed "Dragon Flag", Lee could perform leg lifts with only his shoulder blades resting on the edge of a bench and suspend his legs and torso horizontal midair.

Bruce Lee was able to jump 8 feet from a stand still (this was shown in pictures and his films such as the one where he kicked the lightbulb out).

Lee could break wooden boards 6 inches (15 cm) thick.

Lee could throw grains of rice up into the air and then catch them in mid-flight using chopsticks. - Witnessed by many such as Joe Hyams

Lee could thrust his fingers through unopened cans of Coca-Cola. (This was when soft drinks cans were made of steel much thicker than today's aluminum cans).[/color]

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[color=#333333]This is the last photograph taken of 'Tesla - Master of Lightning' before his death. [/color]

[color=#333333]Tesla died alone in Room 3327 of the New Yorker Hotel at the age of 86. His corpse was later found by maid Alice Monaghan after she had entered Tesla's room, ignoring the "do not disturb" sign that Tesla had placed on his door two days prior to his death. [/color]

[color=#333333]Despite having sold his AC electricity patents, Tesla died impoverished and in debt.[/color]

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[color=#333333]ISAAC W. SPRAGUE – The Original Living Skeleton[/color]

[color=#333333]Isaac W. Sprague was born on May 21, 1841 in East Bridgewater, Massachusetts. According to one of his early cabinet cards, he was a normal and active child until the age of twelve – when he began to rapidly lose weight.[/color]

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[color=#333333]A coat sale in Copenhagen, Denmark. 1936. [/color]

[color=#333333]Overstocked with a large supply of men’s spring and winter coats, a clothier in Copenhagen, Denmark, adopted a unique sales scheme. He erected a scaffolding around his store building and completely covered it from roof to sidewalk with more than a thousand overcoats. The novel display attracted prospective customers in such droves that police were summoned. Although the police ordered the proprietor to remove the display, he succeeded in selling all the overcoats[/color]

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[color=#333333]Niagara Falls during the freeze of 1911. You can see people walking right at the bottom of the frozen waterfall.[/color]

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[color=#333333]Mother and child sitting among destroyed buildings four months after the atomic bomb, Hiroshima, Japan, 1945. [/color]

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[color=#333333]President Lincoln on the Battlefield of Antietam, Maryland, with Major General McClernand and Allan Pinkerton, Chief of the Secret Service, October 4, 1862.[/color]

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