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japanese fireworks

Very different from the Western variety (and the Chinese manufactured Western shells).  A story of how they're made ending with a nice show a fit after the 21 minute mark.

 

abortion access in federal waters

Off some Southern states.

Something like this was tried off Ireland years ago.

 

small business idea

 

 

illiterate tshirts are a thing now

 

 

oxo

The story of a winning kitchenware company.

 

a travel warning from amnesty international

 

issued a few years ago, but still relevant - perhaps even more relevant

found in a pile of cheap costume jewelry

A Viking ring

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Mari Ingelin Heskestad was interested in one of the pieces of jewellery in the photo at the online auction. But she had to purchase the whole lot.

Among the cheap jewellery, a shiny ring stood out.

“It was really heavy, and shiny. It looked very special,” Heskestad says

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eating dinner is not a constitutional right

Alexandra Petri is in good form

 

travel warning from amnesty international

 

 

the most pathetic men in america

Mark Leibovch on Trump's supplicants

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Bottom line, Trump is an extremely tedious dude to have had in our face for seven years and running. My former New York Times colleague David Brooks wrote it best: “We’ve got this perverse situation in which the vast analytic powers of the entire world are being spent trying to understand a guy whose thoughts are often just six fireflies beeping randomly in a jar.”

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