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		<title>Alabama&#8217;s Loch Ness Monster?</title>
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In March 2006, hard-hitting local news reporter Brian Johnson’s curiosity was piqued after a number of residents of the largely African-American and impoverished Crichton neighborhood in Mobile, Alabama reported that they had seen a leprechaun (wearing his signature hat of course) staring at them from an area tree. Little did he know that his subsequent [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theintellectualdevotional.com/blog/2010/03/17/alabamas-new-loch-ness-monster/</link>
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		<title>The Sacagawea Coin: Doomed from the Get-Go</title>
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Sacagawea was the young Shoshone Indian woman who acted as a navigator, diplomat and translator for Lewis and Clark on their historic expedition of the western United States. Only a teenager when she assumed this herculean task, she successfully guided the adventurers from the Northern Great Plains to the Pacific Ocean and back. Without a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theintellectualdevotional.com/blog/2010/03/16/the-sacagawea-coin-doomed-from-the-get-go/</link>
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		<title>The Lost City of Pompeii: A Nutritionist&#8217;s Sodom and Gomorrah</title>
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In the fateful year of 79 AD, the ‘lost’ city of Pompeii (Italy) was a thriving metropolis of approximately 20,000 inhabitants, located near modern Naples in the Italian region of Campania. A cosmopolitan and bustling city at the height of the Roman Empire, Pompeii was a popular vacation destination for wealthy Romans on holiday. Sadly, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theintellectualdevotional.com/blog/2010/03/15/the-lost-city-of-pompeii-a-nutritionists-sodom-and-gomorrah/</link>
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		<title>The Awesomeness (and some potential drawbacks) of Ambidexterity</title>
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Ambidexterity is the state of being equally adept in the use of both the right and left hand. Being born ambidextrous is extremely rare; thus, most people who call themselves ambidextrous have trained themselves to be (called Penwald ambidextrous). Ambidexterity can confer significant advantages with respect to many disciplines involving the use of fine motor [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theintellectualdevotional.com/blog/2010/03/14/the-awesomeness-and-some-potential-drawbacks-of-ambidexterity/</link>
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		<title>Post WWI Paris: A Generation in Flames</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;This land here cost twenty lives a foot that summer&#8230;See that little stream&#8211;we could walk to it in two minutes. It took the British a month to walk it&#8211;a whole empire walking very slowly, dying in front and pushing forward behind. And another empire walked very slowly backward a few inches a day, leaving the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theintellectualdevotional.com/blog/2010/03/13/post-wwi-paris-a-generation-in-flames/</link>
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		<title>Genghis Khan: Probably One of the Biggest Bada**es of All Time</title>
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In approximately 1162 A.D., a baby boy named Temujin was born to the noble family of Yesugei and Ho’elun, somewhere between the grassy plains north of the Gobi Desert and south of the Siberian forests (modern day Mongolia). Legend has it that baby Temujin was born clutching a blood clot the size of a knucklebone, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theintellectualdevotional.com/blog/2010/03/12/genghis-khan-probably-one-of-the-biggest-badaes-of-all-time/</link>
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		<title>The Song of Songs: The &#8220;Bodice Ripper&#8221; Book of the Bible</title>
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The Hebrew Bible contains a particularly puzzling book commonly referred to as “The Song of Songs.” Considered one of the five megillot (scrolls) of the Hebrew Bible, the book is also known as the “Song of Solomon,” “Solomon’s Song of Songs” and “Canticles.” The book contains frankly erotic and romantic imagery, and the poem suggests [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theintellectualdevotional.com/blog/2010/03/11/the-song-of-songs-the-bodice-ripper-book-of-the-bible/</link>
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