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		<title>Daily Curiosities: New Jersey was Invaded by Aliens</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Orson Welles via Wikimedia On October 30th 1938, a martian &#8220;cylinder&#8221; landed in Grovers Mill, New Jersey, heralding the beginning of a Martian invasion that created mass panic and caused immense damage throughout the world. Luckily for us, it was only a radio broadcast. In 1938, CBS was running a radio series named &#8220;Mercury Theatre,&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Daily Curiosities: Jack-o-Lanterns Used to be Turnips</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott McKittrick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every Halloween,, front porches across the United States are invaded by carved, candle lit pumpkins. Yet, as common as Jack-o-Lanterns are, it seems an odd tradition to carve faces on pumpkins. Of course, there is a reason for the tradition, and it starts in Ireland. According to Irish legend, a man named Stingy Jack twice [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Daily Curiosities: Tonic Water was Used to Prevent Malaria</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 13:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott McKittrick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tonic water is a liquid that it often used as a mix in for alcoholic drinks, but did you know that it was originally used to prevent malaria? As the European powers colonized South Asia and and Africa, they began encountering new diseases such as malaria that caused much pain and suffering. One of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Daily Curiosities: The Vasa Refloated</title>
		<link>http://blog.scottmckittrick.com/archives/281</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott McKittrick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1628 the Swedish navy sent their newest warship out on her maiden voyage. Upon leaving the harbor, the ship promptly heeled over and and sank to the ocean floor taking 30 to 50 of her sailors with her. The reason for the sinking of the Vasa was her extremely unstable design. She was built [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Daily Curiosities: Egyptians Wrote on Papyrus</title>
		<link>http://blog.scottmckittrick.com/archives/274</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott McKittrick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Papyrus is one of the first forms of paper ever used. It is made from strips cut from the papyrus reed that have been laid out and hammered together. This formed a bonded sheet of papyrus paper that could be used for writing. Papyrus quickly became popular and was the primary writing medium across the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Daily Curiosities: A Funky Looking Train</title>
		<link>http://blog.scottmckittrick.com/archives/265</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott McKittrick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Roaring Camp No. 7 So this past weekend, I went to visit my sister in Santa Cruz (thus I missed a few posts). While I was up there, my dad and I went to the Roaring Camp railroad to ride the train. This was the first time I had ever seen a geared locomotive up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Daily Curiosities: Nazca Lines</title>
		<link>http://blog.scottmckittrick.com/archives/260</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott McKittrick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nazca Lines via Wikipedia Between 200BC and 600AD a group of people created a series of huge line drawings in the ground. The drawings are so big that they can only be fully seen from the air. Even today, more than 1500 years after their creation, no one has yet discovered what their purpose is. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Daily Curiosities: Alfred Nobel Invented Dynamite</title>
		<link>http://blog.scottmckittrick.com/archives/253</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 13:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott McKittrick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nitroglycerin is extremely dangerous to work with, it explodes from even small physical shocks, and over time it becomes even more unstable. In 1867, Alfred Nobel combined Nitroglycerin with diatomaceous earth to create a mixture known as dynamite. In addition to being used for mining and construction purposes, dynamite became a widely used tool of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Daily Curiosities: A Hammer and a Feather Will Hit the Ground at the Same Time&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://blog.scottmckittrick.com/archives/243</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott McKittrick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apollo 15 Experiment via Youtube &#8230;On the Moon. At the end of the Apollo 15 mission, immediately prior to returning to their spacecraft, astronauts David Scott and James Irwin performed a short experiment to prove that Galileo Galilei was correct in his theory that objects in a vacuum fall at the same rate regardless of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Daily Curiosities: The Tunguska Event</title>
		<link>http://blog.scottmckittrick.com/archives/233</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 13:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott McKittrick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tunguska Event via Wikipedia Early on the morning of June 30th, 1908, a huge explosion rocked the Siberian forest. The explosion was so strong that it felled trees in a 850 square mile area around the blast site. 100 years later the cause of the explosion is still a mystery. The prevailing theory states that [...]]]></description>
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