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http://www.cracked.com/article_15895_the-5-most-badass-presidents-all-time.html As we all prepare to spend a long weekend enjoying Presidential Savings on mattresses and used Toyotas, we could take time to thank some of the presidents who passed bills that protect some of the freedoms your enjoy daily.

The 5 Most Badass Presidents of All-Time

http://gawker.com/5703727/history-teachers-turn-pop-songs-into-the-coolest-visual-lessons-ever Two Hawaiian teachers have taken a new approach to teaching their students by reworking lyrics to popular songs by artists like Lady Gaga, Jennifer Lopez, Gwen Stefani and more into some seriously cool visual history lessons ever. Some favorites, inside. Here's their interpretation of the French Revolution, set to Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance" and with lines like, "I need my bread / Bread, bread, bread / Off with her head."

Pop Songs + History Lesson

Inca Mummie

http://lastdaysoftheincas.com/wordpress/evidence-that-incas-fattened-up-their-children-before-sacrificing-them#.UVgiOtGI70N (Above: Scientists examine a 15-year-old girl who lived in the Inca Empire, then was sacrificed and remained frozen for 500 years)