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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>
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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: Egyptians Wrote on Papyrus</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
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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>
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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>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
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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>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 13:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
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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: Pompeii was Buried by a Volcano</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the year 79 C.E. Mount Vesuvius, an active volcano near Naples, Italy, erupted with fatal force. OVer the course of two days it completely buried two Roman Cities, Herculaneum and the more famous Pompeii. Pompeii and Herculaneum were two wealthy cities in the Roman world, both situated at the base of the fertile slopes [...]]]></description>
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