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10 Events Surrounding September 11. Crime People all over the world are familiar with what happened on September 11, 2001.

10 Events Surrounding September 11

On that morning, 19 al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked four US commercial passenger jet airliners and intentionally crashed two of them into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center. The Twin Towers collapsed within two hours of being struck by the planes. Civilians from over 70 countries were killed in the attacks, with a total of 2,995 casualties. In the months before and after September 11, many important international events occurred. 10 Interesting Things About The Human Body. 10 Unique Hotels Around The World. What makes you want to stay in a particular hotel?

10 Unique Hotels Around The World

Top 10 Lists - Top Ten Lists - TopTenz.net. Ten prophesies for the digital millenium - Essential Gadgets - Executive Style. 15 Most Magical Places in the World. Want to share the magic?

15 Most Magical Places in the World

Tweet or Stumble this article! Wizards, sorcerers, hobbits and goblins. This maybe the stuff of fairy-tales but you can bring magic to life! Visit these breath-taking magical destinations and live out your own travel legend! Travel and make-believe certainly go hand in hand. Whether it’s royal palaces, enchanted forests or magical lagoons, traveling the world can bring your favorite fairy-tales to life! So grab your wand, mount your white horse and take a virtual journey through the 15 most magical places in the world!

10 Fun Facts. 4ccd3be377a5d.png (PNG Image, 500x375 pixels) Photograph, Library, These, University, United. Moldova National Library - Photograph by Daniel Zollinger These pillars of higher learning are also home to some of the world’s most incredible architecture.

Photograph, Library, These, University, United

Below is a small collection of stunning libraries around the globe. From the historical to the modern, these centres of knowledge and learning also preserve the history and culture of their respective periods. Personally, I would find it hard to concentrate in some of these places, they are too beautiful for the eye not to wander. More images after the break... 1. Photograph by Peter Bond Photograph by Peter Bond 2. Photograph by James Gillard Photograph by James Gillard. 50 Most Influential Books of the Last 50 (or so) Years.

In compiling the books on this list, the editors at SuperScholar have tried to provide a window into the culture of the last 50 years.

50 Most Influential Books of the Last 50 (or so) Years

Ideally, if you read every book on this list, you will know how we got to where we are today. Not all the books on this list are “great.” The criterion for inclusion was not greatness but INFLUENCE. All the books on this list have been enormously influential. The books we chose required some hard choices. We also tried to keep a balance between books that everyone buys and hardly anyone reads versus books that, though not widely bought and read, are deeply transformative.

Top 10 Most Famous Facts That Are Wrong. We all believe things to be true that are, in fact, quite wrong.

Top 10 Most Famous Facts That Are Wrong

Many of these “facts” we learned in school, while some of them we picked up from friends or on TV—or just “heard somewhere.” Whatever their source, however, they have subsequently proven to be erroneous, demonstrating once again that just because something is repeated often enough doesn’t necessarily make it so. In fact, it seems the only things we really know for certain is that we don’t know anything for certain, which is what makes it possible for revisionist historians to make a living and pundits like myself to pretend to be smarter than everyone else.

(The “fact” is that most of the things I list below I once assumed to be true myself, demonstrating that even an old blogger like me can be taught a thing or two every now and then—dispelling yet another internet myth.) 10. 9. 100 snacks under 100 calories. 30 of the World's Greatest Wedding Cakes.

Few things are more important on a wedding day (apart from both partners turning up; the ring being secure; and nobody objecting during the ceremony) than the cake.

30 of the World's Greatest Wedding Cakes

Very few weddings are without such a centrepiece. It's just a shame that so many couples opt for the same traditional, boring designs when there is so much opportunity to impress and surprise the guests. Here are 30 brilliant examples, to be used as inspiration for your own big day. Above: A wedding cake fit for an action hero. Above: An illustration of things to come? Above: There's nothing like brutal honesty wrapped in a Portal nod to begin a marriage. Above: A wedding massacre. Above: A show of vanity so incredible as to be impressive. Above: A wedding cake fit for geeks.

Above: The most unappetising wedding cake I've ever wanted. Above: A work of baked art. Above: For Stargate fans only. Above: Good news everyone! 10 Cool Random Star Wars Facts. Not ALL OF IT is bullshit, but quite a part, it is.

10 Cool Random Star Wars Facts

Yoda’s appearance is based on that of his own designer, Stuart Freeborn, along with some details taken from Einstein’s portraits. For the filming of Empire Strikes Back, Vader’s line was “Kenobi killed your father”; there was never any time travel bullshit involved.