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First-month Oregon pot sales tax receipts FAR EXCEED projections 

Oregon’s 300 licensed cannabis retailers sold $13.9 million worth of marijuana in January, generating $3.48 million in taxes, according to a revenue report issued on Thursday. Oregon’s Liquor Control Commission, charged with regulating the drug, had forecast annual tax revenues … Continue reading

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First-month Oregon pot sales tax receipts far exceed projections 

Oregon’s 300 licensed cannabis retailers sold $13.9 million worth of marijuana in January, generating $3.48 million in taxes, according to a revenue report issued on Thursday. Oregon’s Liquor Control Commission, charged with regulating the drug, had forecast annual tax revenues … Continue reading

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Every Three Years, Artists Compete to Be On View at the National Portrait Gallery. Here Are the Winners 

I suggest that in addition to enjoying the images you read the interesting back stories of the artists in the Smithsonian article. The 2016 show conveys an intensity, as if the artists and their subjects are demanding a conversation on … Continue reading

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Fashionable in Communist Poland

And exhibit at the Polish Museum of Art in Krakow examines the fashions during the Communist era in Poland. Photos by BARTOSZ SIEDLIK

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Relief for Northern California-Floodways Fill After 3 Dry Years

Acquired March 18, 2015:Water flowed into Yolo Bypass, a floodway between Davis and Sacramento, for the first time in three years. Acquired March 17, 2016: Source: Northern California Floodway Fills : Image of the Day

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Scans show ‘90% chance’ of hidden chambers in Tutankhamun tomb

For at least 3,339 years, nobody has seen what lies behind the west and north walls of the burial chamber of Tutankhamun.  But this secret of three millennia might not last much longer. On Thursday, Mamduh al-Damati, the Egyptian antiquities … Continue reading

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The 9 Most Devastating Insults From Around the World | Cracked.com

A good example of this list comes from Bulgaria: “Let a hungry Carpathian long-haired she-wolf blow your dick, fuck” (Gladna Karpatska valchitza s dalag kosam minet da ti prai deeba) Who Said That? Bulgarians. Dear God Why? Bulgarian cursing is based … Continue reading

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A 35,000 y.o. bird representation and its relevance to the origins of figurative art in Europe

PARIS.- In advance of the construction of the eastern Bergerac bypass route (Dordogne), the preventive excavation realized by Inrap at the open-air doline site of Cantalouette revealed prehistoric occupations from the Middle Paleolithic and Neolithic periods. Iluminada Ortega and Laurence Bourguignon of Inrap, … Continue reading

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“Upside Down & Inside Out,” the First Music Video Filmed in Microgravity

“Upside Down & Inside Out”   Read about the creation and production of this video on Smithsonian’s Air & Space Magazine. But here’s a brief video from the band about it:  

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Embattled SeaWorld to end breeding of killer whales

Theme park operator SeaWorld said on Thursday it will stop breeding killer whales, bowing to years of pressure from animal rights activists. SeaWorld Entertainment Inc’s decision came after it pledged in November to replace its signature “Shamu” killer whale shows … Continue reading

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