Time Warp Towns – Famous Places Stuck in the 50s

Many towns and cities around the world are stuck in a time warp because of their lack of funding to catch up with modern times; others simply don’t want their home towns to be overtaken with modern developments and are perfectly happy with their current way of living.

This article will look at where some of these towns and cities can be found and how you can get there, should you feel the need to go back to the fifties. [Read more...]

24 Wonderful Facts About Butterflies

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24 Wonderful Facts About Butterflies

 


We all know them but we all don’t know them. Butterflies. Honestly what do you know apart from knowing that they are pretty to look at? Yeah, I came up with nothing too… Or worse, with things that are not even correct. So I did a little research and wrote down the 24 most amazing  and astonishing facts that I found about butterflies. Most surprised I was by the fact that it is not the butterflies that make silk cocoons but the moths. And I was also cobsmacked that butterflies can taste with their feet. Isn’t that incredible?
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The 13 Hottest Cars Ever Featured in Movies!

 

Hottest Cars in Movies

Cars and film go together like Salma Hayek in a bikini, Megan Fox alive and that girl from Fast and the Furious in a ’67 Mustang. It’s part of our culture. We want to see muscle cars ragged through the gears until the valves jump up through the bonnet and do a little dance, we want to see half naked girls inside cars doing things that half naked girls do inside cars and we want to see hard men with bald heads pretend to know how to drive like F1 drivers. Here’s the hottest cars ever featured in film.

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The 10 Craziest Coupons You’ve Ever Seen

The Craziest Coupon Codes Ever For At Home Skin Care

Skin care is often the best time to use the craziest coupon codes. Redeeming these codes can give consumers great products at low prices. This makes it possible to get the necessary products for healthy skin.

Boutique skin care is often expensive, and the best code is 50% off. This offer makes it possible to get high end beauty for half off. Shoppers who use these offers can quickly stock up on beauty products.

For the ultimate in savings, offers of 75% or more off are the best. These deals may apply to a particular item as a limited time purchase. Beauty lovers often use these steep discounts to stock up on products. [Read more...]

Top 6 Tough Female Characters on TV

Top 6 Tough Female Characters on TV

There was a time when female characters were most frequently relegated to the role of damsel in distress in action films and television. It was rare to come across a female character with a physically strong role.

Even today it is a struggle for female actors to get strong action roles, but there are a few gems out there. These women are emotionally strong and confident, but they can also kick butt . They know their crafts well and let the men who work with them know they are not just pretty faces or little girls in need of rescuing.

If you take a quick look around the web, there are plenty of references to past shows with obviously tough female characters. Xena: Warrior Princess, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Sarah Connor (from Terminator), Wonder Woman, and many others who knew how to handle their weapons of choice in the 80s, 90s, and 00s. But a new generation of action heroines have emerged, and this list is a tribute to those who may have been overlooked.

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4 Video Games That Shouldn’t Have Been Cancelled

Video Games That Shouldn't Have Been Cancelled

Game cancellations are to games fans what the destruction of Alderaan is to a Jedi. But despite the great disturbance in the force that results, and the millions of screaming voices that echo throughout the forums in the wake of a cancellation, games are usually axed for very good reasons. Not every great idea makes a great game, and the money that it takes to develop and publish a game isn’t always worth it. However, there are some games that, regardless of their resulting quality, would have done the world a favour by being released.

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