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Top 10 Competitive Eating Achievements NOT to be tried at home

Top 10 Competitive Eating Achievements NOT to be tried at home

Often find that your eyes are bigger than your belly? Most of us of course do, but for some brave and rather questionable souls across the world today, overeating is not something to be avoided, but instead to be celebrated and indeed rewarded. So, we’ve all heard of the local hot dog eating contest set [...]

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Top 10 “What Were They Thinking?” Place Names

Top 10 “What Were They Thinking?” Place Names

From time to time we will all pass a place or perhaps encounter a road with a name so wonderfully silly that we just have to stop and have our picture take next to it – we really are all guilty of this innocent pleasure from time to time. True, what’s rude and frankly hilarious [...]

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Top 10 Greatest English Premier League Legends

Top 10 Greatest English Premier League Legends

The English premier league was founded in 1992 when all of the top flight teams decamped from the football league. Ever since the first ball was kicked on 15th august that year the league has produced great players who have propelled it to one of the best leagues in the world. But there are certain [...]

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Top 10 Nations with Soft Power

Top 10 Nations with Soft Power

Just over two decades ago, soft power was born. Well, the word at least. Joseph Nye published Bound to Lead in 1990, describing how America exercises hegemonic control over other nations by means of a power that is not directly violent (military, threatening, etc.). This bizarre means of control needs monitoring. Monocle magazine has been [...]

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