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Lt. Hiroo Onada was a Japenese soldier during world war two. He took part in guerilla-style warfare which involved ambushing the enemy and damaging facilities. He lay in hiding for many years. When he was going to his post he agreed to never surrender to the enemy, never resort to suicide attacks and to withstand all enemies until help arrived. He took these promises to heart. Despite the war ending in 1945 he continued to believe in his fight for 29 more years.  Lt. Onada refused to believe the war was over and any attempts to tell him otherwise were...

This baby story is to justify the advantages of social sites. A woman named Christina DePino from Michigan was already eight months pregnant. She made a post on Facebook about the strange symptoms she was having during pregnancy, and that was to save her future baby life. She experienced continual itching while being pregnant with her first baby. Seeking advice to her strange feelings, she decided to post about the issue on Facebook, and what happened after the post was to prevent the fatal consequences.  She received a lot of responses from her friends, who warned her that she might be suffering from gestational cholestasis. It is a liver...

No matter what age you are there is likely a movie or a TV show with dogs at its core that you are incredibly fond of. Perhaps you are an older generation and most familiar with Lassie. If you are a millennial then you may be more familiar with the movie Homeward Bound. If you are even younger then ‘A Dog’s Way Home’ may be your preferred choice. These movies all have one thing in common, they show the incredible ability of dogs to be able to find their way home from places that are incredibly far away. This trick...

In a part of South America now known as Argentina, a living, breathing, eating animal over 120 feet in length and weighing in at over 70 tons roams the plains. This is nothing to worry about for Argentinians: The above scene would have to be a prehistoric one since this record-breaking monstrosity has been extinct for millions of years. However, new evidence of its existence is just now coming out, and though the jury's still out on whether it will But one thing is not in dispute: In life, the creature was huge, and the fossils that it left behind...

Many people don't like doing dishes. They find it one of the most annoying things to do. Though you can't escape it completely, you can surely make it a little enjoyable and easy. To help people like you, who don't like doing dishes, we have come up with 5 easy cleaning tricks for people who hate doing dishes. So, let's get started. Trick 1: Start a new day with an empty dishwasher There's nothing worse than getting up in the morning and realizing that you have loads of dirty dishes that need to be cleaned. Create a habit of washing...

Jack the Ripper is one of, if not the most, famous serial killer. While names like Ted Bundy and John Wayne Gacy come near the top of the list you must consider that their murders took place during the 1970s while Jack the Ripper killed his victims in 1888! Despite the murders being so long ago he still holds such infamy. This is because of the type of murders that took place and because his (or her) true identity has never been discovered. Jack the Ripper was a serial killer in London in 1888. It is known with certainty that...

Honest is a rare quality, especially when it involves someone trying to make a sale. However, a small Chinese restaurant is proving that honesty truly is the best policy and that sometimes being forthright about the details is something others respect. Their forth-right and hilariously true menu has turned them into a Twitter sensation. The Aunt Dai restaurant in Montreal, Canada is owned by Feigang Fei. Since he knows that people go online to get the true to life details about a restaurant before they try it out, he decided to cut out the work for them. Instead of having...

The names of inventors are always well remembered. Thomas Edison invented the light bulb. Steve Jobs invented the iPhone. Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press. Issac Newton is often credited with inventing gravity, although that makes no sense. Yet arguably the greatest invention the world has ever seen, since the printing press, is the world wide web and the average person has no idea who invented it. That man’s name is Tim Berners-Lee and he deserves to be remembered. Tim Berners-Lee was born in 1955 and was a standout academic in the area of physics. In 1980 he started to...

While e-mail and instant messaging makes communicating with someone a trivial matter, there are some situations where a handwritten letter can still be appreciated. Indeed, the fact that letters are so rarely received from person to person makes them all the more cherished; even a person's handwriting can remind others of that person and all of the warm feelings expressed in the words that written by that hand. One particular occasion where technology's advance holds no sway would be "nengajou," Japanese New Year's cards. These treasured holiday trinkets are never sent through any other means than traditional postage. Most Japanese...

No one likes to have a long layover at an airport. When you are on a long flight you at least know that you are getting closer to your final destination. When you are stuck in an airport it feels like time wasted. Watching a movie or playing on your phone can help but there are only so many hours you can watch and I prefer to save that time for the plane. So what can you do? You can roam the terminals looking for somewhere to charge your phone, you can buy an expensive neck pillow, or you can...