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The Ultimate New Year's Quiz
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Get out your party hats and sparklers! New Year's Eve is the night when young and old stay up past midnight to ring in the new year. Fireworks blast off around the globe while bottles of champagne pour a bubbly sea of mirth. What are the different ways people celebrate New Year's, and how can you ensure good luck for the next 12 months?
How Presidential Memoirs Work
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With President Clinton's memoirs scheduled for release on June 22, there's a whole lot of talk going around about the nature of a presidential memoir. What is its purpose? What is the role of cold, hard facts in this type of book? How does it progress from idea to finished product? This week, find out what distinguishes a memoir from a general autobiography and see how a presidential memoir comes to be.
Which "Naruto" character are you?
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With a cast of eclectic characters the anime Naruto has captured fans around the world. So much so that spinoffs, movies, video games, and even novels have expanded the Naruto universe bigger than anyone could have anticipated. The question is which of these characters do you identify? Overly enthusiastic Naruto, intelligent and sweet Sakura, driven Sasuke, or vengeful Gaara? Take the quiz to find out!
20 Things You Didn't Know About Nintendo
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When it comes to video games, Nintendo is the oldest player in town and I mean that quite literally. The company entered the industry in the 1970s, but has actually been around for more than 125 years, beginning life as a card and toy manufacturer long before making the jump to video games. Any company [...] The post 20 Things You Didn't Know About Nintendo appeared first on Goliath.
The 10 Most Badass Female Characters
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Much has been made (most especially of late) of the role of women in cinema. As recently as last week, there's been controversy surrounding gender inequality both on and around the silver screen, with megastar Jennifer Lawrence penning an essay asking why she was paid less than her male co-stars, despite the fact that she's, [...] The post The 10 Most Badass Female Characters appeared first on Goliath.
The 10 Most Legitimate Cases of U.F.O. Sightings
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History doesn't believe or disbelieve in UFOs. There are a handful of UFO sightings documented by Roman historians from around 2,000 years ago, but they seem about as credible as the existence of Zeus. More than 95 percent of all UFO sightings can be easily dismissed as military aircraft, stars, planets, meteors, flares, weather balloons [...] The post The 10 Most Legitimate Cases of U.F.O. Sightings appeared first on Goliath.
Sci-Fi Movies That Are Actually Scientifically Accurate
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The term "science fiction" gives writers an outlet to break the rules a bit and tell stories that revolve around scientific theories and concerns without necessarily having to worry about accuracy. Indeed, there have been many sci-fi movies that totally ignore how science works (we've even compiled a list of the worst offenders), which is fine [...] The post Sci-Fi Movies That Are Actually Scientifically Accurate appeared first on Goliath.
11 Video Games That Resulted in Major Lawsuits
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Think the video game industry is all fun and games? Think again. Video games have been the subject of some very monumental lawsuits over the years, and issues involving developers, characters, controversies, and merchandise have tied up courts around the world and resulted in multi-million dollar judgments and settlements. And nobody in the video game world [...] The post 11 Video Games That Resulted in Major Lawsuits appeared first on Goliath.
The 15 Best Trilogies In Movie History
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We're tackling the greatest movies trilogies in the history of cinema today, but before we proceeded to list what we think are the greatest three-peats around, we wanted to tell our esteemed readers just how we chose the trilogies you'll read about. While we've tried our damnedest to make sure the films here exist in [...] The post The 15 Best Trilogies In Movie History appeared first on Goliath.
If We Show You a Fossil, Can You Figure Out What Living Thing It Used to Be?
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Don't let those incredible dinosaur skeletons in the museum fool you -- the fossils of living things don't always look exactly like that person, plant or animal did while alive. See how many you can identify with this quiz!