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A Street In Beirut Is Being Used As A River Of Garbage

Megi7 — Fri, 26 Feb 2016 00:59:11 +0000

Six months ago authorities in Beirut closed the landfill the trash began piling up on this street. Now it’s become a major problem and the street looks like giant river of garbage. Authorities are currently working on getting the garbage transported to Russia for disposal.

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These Vintage Photos Are A Nice Reminder Of How Simple Things Used To Be

Megi7 — Wed, 03 Feb 2016 00:37:44 +0000

Nowadays we’re all distracted by so many things that just don’t matter. These pictures offer a refreshing look at a time when things were much simpler.

Texas Track Club of Abilene, 1964

Disneyland Employee Cafeteria, 1961

Teenagers at a party in 1947 in Tulsa, Oklahoma

Street gang from 1916

Tri-Delta sorority sisters, University of Texas, 1944

Grade school dance 1950s

Guests on the “Snow White and her Adventures” ride on the opening day of Disneyland (1955)

Reception desk at General Motors Technical Center, 1956

A young couple spending an evening in Las Vegas (1957)

Beach Date At Balboa Beach in 1947

United Airlines stewardess 1970

Saturday afternoon matinee…double feature and cartoons for 25

Recording an episode of “Gang Busters”, true crime radio show, New York, 1930’s

Economy class flying in 1970

Getting cooled air piped into the car while enjoying a meal at a drive-in restaurant. Houston, Texas. 1957

The New York Times Writers, 1942

Bowling Alley Pinsetters

Customers at a London music store listen to the latest record releases in soundproof listening booths, 1955

A new suburban housing development opens, Bellflower California, 1953

Tattoo parlor in the 1920’s

Drive-in theater in Iaeger, West Virginia, 1956

1924 Ringling Brothers and Barnun & Bailey “Circus of Freaks”

A movie theater, 1921

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Ricky Gervais Used Twitter To Save Hundreds Of Dogs

Megi7 — Tue, 20 Oct 2015 23:15:36 +0000

A shelter in Odai, Romania recently received 650 dogs but they needed $30,000 to give the dogs everything they need. The shelter was having a hard time raising money until comedian Ricky Gervais stepped in. He retweeted the fundraising campaign’s original message and now the shelter is close to reaching their goal.

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Woman Buys Used Car And A Whole Lot More

Megi7 — Wed, 20 Aug 2014 22:31:58 +0000

Poor Charlie Weiss thought she was just buying a car but she ended up with a python too. The previous owner of the car had been searching for the python for about two months. Well guess what, Charlie found it.

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The Fact That These 25 Creatures Used To Roam The Earth Is Mind-Boggling… And Freaky. #9 = OMG.

Megi7 — Thu, 03 Apr 2014 22:02:18 +0000

Microraptor: Its name means “one who seizes.” It was a very small dinosaur and paleontologists have long debated the use of its four wings.

Paleontologists, scientists and other researchers have collected enough samples over the years to form some pretty solid theories about what kinds of creatures used to roam this earth. If you’ve ever seen Jurassic Park or have been to a natural history museum, you’d know that life here used to consist of three things: huge monsters, dangerous plants and quick deaths

Nyctosaurus: This ancient genus of Pterorsaur was found in the Mid-western sections of the US. The name means “naked reptile.”

Opabinia: This is one of the strangest creatures that ever lived. It had 30 flippers, 30 legs, a trunk-like nose and one lobster claw.

Phorusrhacidae: People know this creature as the “terror bird.” It was one of the largest predatory birds that ever lived and could run at speeds up to 40mph.

Pterodaustro: Also known as the Pterosaurs, it had a wingspan of 4 feet. It’s bristle-like teeth implies it probably fed on a diet of plankton and small crustaceans.

Quetzalcoatlus: This was the largest pterosaur in the sky, as big is a common African giraffe. Its wingspan was 30 whole feet.

Sharovipteryxe: Ths gliding reptile, found in Central Asia, was about one foot long. It would feed on insects and wasn’t capable of powered flight, it would just glide.

Stethacanthus: A type of extinct prehistoric shark, they would grow up to 6 feet long with a strange looking back growth on males.

Tanystropheus: Its name means “long necked one” and the prehistoric reptile was easily over 20 feet long.

Therizinosauridae: Or “reaper lizard,” may have been found in Mongolia, China, and the United States. Because they had long necks, pot bellies, four-toed feet, and beaky mouth, scientists weren’t sure if their parts belonged to one creature or several.

Archaeopteryx: The “first bird” supposedly existed during the Jurassic period, discovered in Germany in 1861.

Deinocheirus: There are only a handful of fossil remains of this creature, including two forelimbs and some vertebrae. Its name means “terrible hands.”

Deinotherium: The “hoe tusker” resembled a modern day elephant and were discovered at major hominid extinction sites at Lake Turkana in Kenya.

Dimorphodon: This flying creature had two distinct types of teeth in its jaw. It had great eyesight and huge claws for hunting.

Dunkleosteus: Or “Dunkle’s bone,” was one of the largest armored jaw fishes that ever existed. It was one of the fiercest predators in the ocean. It could be up to 10 meters long and weighed 3.6 tons.

Elasmosaur: This creature could be up to 46 feet in length (with most of its length in its neck). Its neck was 4x larger than a giraffe’s.

Epidendrosaurus: This was the first reptile to be closer ro a bird than a dinosaur. It was about 6 inches long, with clawed hands on its arms/wings.

Epidexipteryx: These small, feathered dinosaurs were found in the Inner Mongolia region of China. Their large display feathers were the earliest known representation of ornamental feathers in the fossil record.

Hallucigenia: A relative of modern arthropods, Hallucigenia is a strange creature only 3 millimeters long. It has a bulbous round head connected to its cylindrical trunk. It was an ancestor of today’s velvet worms.

Helicoprion: Also known as “spiral saw,” this shark-like cartilaginous fish appeared in the late Carboniferous era. The only evidence of its existence was a curled-up coil of triangular teeth. Some scientists think that it was used to grind shells, while others believed it to be a weapon.

Jaekelopterus: This sea scorpion was massive, at an estimated length of 2.5 meters. It was one of the largest arthropods ever discovered. It supposedly STILL exists in present day freshwater rivers and lakes in Germany.

Josephoartigasia: This capybara-like animal was the biggest rodent on the planet, weighing up to 1000kg.

Liopleurodon: This marine predator lived on a diet of fish, squid, and other sea reptiles. It was bigger than a sperm whale and its skull was nearly 1/4 of its body, filled with many smooth teeth.

Longisquama: This creature was known as the first archosaur to have been able to glide or parachute. It is known for its elongated pair of scales along its back, with the anterior ones resembling feathers.

Megalania: Otherwise known as the giant ripper lizard, it fed on a diet of mammals, snakes, other reptiles, and birds. A modern day relative would be the Komodo dragon that inhabits the Flores Islands in Indonesia.

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