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Neil Coleman is the most confident, arrogant, over-the-top cocky jerk I've ever met.Word on the street is that he just got out of prison for murder. Murder! In a town like Kurlin, that sort of thing just doesn't happen, but it did. I know what happened that night. Most people don't, but I do. It was a brutal murder and even now, five years later, people are still talking about it like it just happened. I've always thought there was more to the story...
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Several years ago, a New York high school teacher began using the Internet to post strange-but-true history and science factoids for his students to read. What began as an interesting Web site for students at Chatham High School soon became an internationally recognized page that garnered numerous awards, including Yahoo's Site of the Week. In 2001, some of the stories were assembled into Einstein's Refrigerator, which has been translated into Korean...
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A compendium containing the origins and history of some of the most common words and phrases in the English language.
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Tying the knot actually involved tying a knot-not saying vows. Meanwhile, a thinking cap wasn't just a cute idea for schoolchildren, but an actual hat worn by scholars in the Middle Ages. Oh, and when you make no bones about something, you should consider yourself lucky you aren't choking on a chicken foot.
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