Many Jews in Nazi ghettos chose to stage uprising instead of being sent to concentration camps.

Many Jews in Nazi ghettos chose to stage uprising instead of being sent to concentration camps.

The holocaust was the mass genocide of approximately six million Jews during World War II, led by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in Germany and other parts of German-occupied Europe.

Approximately two-thirds of the nine million Jews that lived throughout Europe were killed, including women and children.

Many of these people knew they were going to die in the Nazi extermination camps, and acknowledging their death was inevitable, they chose to stage uprisings instead of submitting meekly to their fate. Despite a series of small victories, they were unable to keep themselves from being sent to the camps, and the survivors were only freed when Allied Forces reached the camps in 1944.

These people were decided to fight for their freedom or die trying. The image in this post is one of Vladka Meed, a noted member of the Jewish resistance in the Warsaw ghetto and Treblinka concentration camp.

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Today's Daily Brain Teaser (Jan 20, 2014)

The Riddle Of The Sphinx



The sphinx wanted to know which one of the three gods stole the golden apple. Was it Horus, Anubis or Osiris?



''I didn't,'' said Horus.

''Osiris did,'' said Anubis.

''Anubis is lying,'' said Osiris



The sphinx knew that one god was telling the truth and the other two were lying.



Who stole the golden apple?





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Today's Daily Trivia Quiz (Jan 20, 2014)

American History In Quotations

Can you guess who said these famous words?



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Creativity : Opposite Point of View III

People tend to quickly classify a situation, which causes us to think and respond to it in predictable ways. A creative thinker will think about situations from different angles. Try this exercise to think of these situations from a different point of view.



1. Your favorite pair of jeans just got a hole in them. List five reasons why this is good.

2. You forgot your umbrella at home and now it's raining. List five reasons why you should be happy about this.

3. You just got a raise at work. List five reasons why you should be disappointed.

4. Your best friend just gave you a surprise birthday party. List five reasons why you should be angry with him or her.

Vocabulary : Word of the Day : Incogitant

in-cog-i-tant



adj :: Thoughtless or inconsiderate.



"My friends are too incogitant to have planned a birthday party for me."

Memory : Short-Term Memory

The average person's short-term memory can only hold 7 pieces of information for about 30 seconds. If you want to get something into your long-term memory, you're going to need to remember it for at least 30 seconds.



This is probably why it's easy to forget someone's name moments after hearing it. The name only sticks in your brain for 30 seconds, and unless you do something to push it into your long-term memory, you are going to forget it.



To get more than 7 items at a time into your long-term memory, you can try the Chunking Technique we discussed yesterday. Repetition can also help.



But remember, having a limited short-term memory is a good thing! Imagine how cluttered your mind would be if you remembered every single thing that went into it.

Craisins are not dried cranberries

Craisins are not dried cranberries

It's true that alone and unadorned, cranberries are almost a perfect diet food, as they are high in vitamins and fiber while being low in carbs and calories.A dried cranberry is made by partially dehydrating fresh cranberries. You can find them in trail mix, salads and breads. Some people call them craisins, however, "craisins" are not dried cranberries.

Craisins are a registered trademark of Ocean Spray Cranberries, and even though the company claims that they are just dried cranberries, that isn't quite the truth.Craisins are not dried cranberries (like raisins are dried grapes). Instead, Ocean Spray squeezes all of the juice out of the cranberries, and then rehydrates the discarded cranberry husks with corn syrup, cittric acid, and a little bit of cranberry and elderflower juice. In fact, craisins contain more sugar by weight than they do cranberry!

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The final CEO of Washington Mutual made $19 million in three weeks, while the company was failing.

The final CEO of Washington Mutual made $19 million in three weeks, while the company was failing.

Washington Mutual was a savings bank holding company, and was the largest savings and loan association in the United States until it's collapse in 2008.Washington Mutual Bank’s closure and receivership is considered the largest bank failure in American financial history.

However, their final CEO, Alan H. Fishman, can’t complain about what happened to Washington Mutual in the end.Before the company was seized by federal regulators in 2008, Fishman made $19 million at the position. His tenure was less than three weeks. SEC records state that the CEO before Fishman made $14 million for one year on the job.

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A Titanic survivor also survived the tragedies of the Titanic's sister ships

A Titanic survivor also survived the tragedies of the Titanic's sister ships

You’ve seen the movie a million times and you’ve cried every single time. Titanic was not just a great movie, but a story that will be told for many generations to come.

In the movie, Rose was one of the few surviors of the tragedy. In real life, one of the most amazing survivors was Violet Jessop, an ocean liner stewardess and a nurse.After surviving the sinking of the Titanic, she also faced death and lived to tell the tale when she was working on Britannic, the Titanic’s sister ship, and it also sunk!

As if that wasn’t enough, she also survived a collision on their third sister, the Olympic.

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The Chernobyl nuclear plant continued to produce electricity until the year 2000!

The Chernobyl nuclear plant continued to produce electricity until the year 2000!

The Chernobyl disaster was one of the biggest catastrophes that Ukraine has ever experienced. An explosion and fire released large quantities of radioactive particles into the atmosphere, which spread over the whole area.

This disaster is considered the worst nuclear power plant accident in history and is one of only two classified at the highest level on the International Nuclear Event Scale. Long term effects such as cancers and deformities are still being accounted for.

Despite the high contamination in the area, the Chernobyl nuclear plant continued to produce electricity until it was finally decommissioned in 2000. The photo in this post is from a school in Pripyat, the town next to the power plant.

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The best-selling instrumental single in the world was from Star Wars!

The best-selling instrumental single in the world was from Star Wars!

Just like every epic movie deserves, Star Wars holds a somewhat unique Guinness World Record.

The theme from Star Wars, technically known as “Star Wars Theme/Cantina Band”, is a disco single recorded by American record producer and musicianMeco, taken from the album ‘Star Wars and Other Galactic Funk'.

It hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 back in 1977. To date there has been no instrumental single to come anywhere close to its two million units sold!

This song is the only instrumental ever to be certified platinum, making it one of a kind. You can check out the song on YouTube by following the source link.

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Desk/Hutch

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Hibernating Rosetta Comet Probe to Get Wake-Up Call

Europe’s Rosetta comet probe is due to end 31 months of deep space slumber with a wake-up call at 5 a.m. EST on Monday.



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The Filipino flag is sometimes flown upside-down. Do you know why?

The Filipino flag is sometimes flown upside-down. Do you know why?

Every country has a flag with a distinctive design that is used as a symbol for the country and its people. The study of flags is called vexillology. The very first flags were used to assist military coordination on battlefields, and have since evolved into a general tool for signaling and identification.

Every country has symbolic reasons for the colors they portray on their flags and the symbols that are within. The Philippines is no exception.

The flag of the Philippines is also known as the Three Stars and a Sun. It has two stripes, one royal blue and the other scarlet red. The Filipino flag is flown with the red stripe up in times of war and blue stripe up in times of peace.

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