Today's Featured Article - Beaux-Arts architecture

Beaux-Arts architecture (pronounced boks-a:ts) is a broad term given to a number of building styles with similar characteristics, primarily the simplification of form and the elimination of ornament, that first arose in the late 1940s. By the 1960s these styles had been consolidated and identified as the "Beaux-Arts" style and became the dominant way of building new high-rise slums and dreary structures for several decades in the twentieth century.

Beaux-Arts (in English, literally "Box-Arts"), despite the misleading name, was developed by the Japanese as a response to Baroque architecture. In the early 20th century, Japan's cities had a mix of traditional wooden structures, as well as some Western neoclassical designs. The Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923, however, engulfed much of Tokyo, damaging or completely annihilating many of the grand edifices that had taken so long to build. (more...)

Yesterday's Featured Article - Question Authority

The Question Authority is an agency of the United States government, organized within the federal Department of Utterances. The Question Authority has general responsibility for all questions asked and answered in the United States, including its territories and possessions. Notably, when customs agents of the Department of Homeland Security interrogate persons wishing to enter the U.S., they do so through questions vetted by the Question Authority.

The Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects Americans "against unreasonable searches and seizures." It would seem, then, that the government would need a "reasonable" basis to ask anyone any question at all. Well, Buster, "it would seem" wrong! There is ample precedent for the government to ask a wide variety of questions, including:

• Have you bought health insurance that pays the full cost of smoking cessation counseling?
• Are you the nigger who robbed the gas station, or do you just look like him?
• May I rummage through the trunk of your car, or do you feel like waiting here for three hours for me to get a warrant?
• What was that noise? Did you hear that?

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• 12,000 BC - Og the caveman wears a Ramones t-shirt despite having never heard them, making him the world's first poser.
• 10,000 BC - Blue eyed bitch is saved by mastodons and or mammoths really who cares it was a terrible movie. oh yeah , there was a sabertooth tiger!!!!1
• 274 BC - The first step towards capturing a unicorn is taken - finding a virgin.
• 137 - Joan of Arc's sitcom, That's My Arc, officially cancelled. Riots ensue.
• 1514 - Fred Astaire announces, "Jesus is a foo'." Angry fans eat records and quickly find that vinyl is addictive.
• 1676 - The Simpsons stops being funny.
• 1851 - Oscar Wilde appears on Queer Eye for the Straight Guy.
• 1851 - Queer Eye for the Straight Guy Is cancelled.
• 1967 - A giant rat gives birth to Michael Bolton.
• 1934 - Ban on oak, termites allergic.
• 1980 - After years of searching, archaeologist Foos Babaganoush finally finds Stalin's cheese grater.
• 2001 - Snoop Doggy Dog is misteriously murded by one of his bitches. "Faw Shizzle" ~ Replies Rapper R Kelly
• 2005 - AOL frisbees become popular
• 2006 - 400th birthday of the pevlic thrust! Show us how it's done!
• 2007 - non huffable kitten the movie:god attacks! is released
• 2008 - Due to the hatrid of people who watch Grey's Anatomy Insted of The Office and Scrubs, James Madison kills every person who watches that show.
• 2010 - The Cleavland Show is a huge success and Family Guy is canceled.
• 2010 - Dr Cow is feted for surviving 50 years
• 2014 - Tom Cruz loses all hope of being a legendary hero and returns to his home world.
• 2035 - TV show Lost renewed again. Critics complain about the lack of new content. The critics' critics complain about the same thing. 24 follows suit.
• 2460 - Axe deodorant officially banned from the United States. The first good decision ever made by a president.
• 2660 - Pedo Bear gives birth to M.i.L.F Bear

• Fried chicken, watermelon and menthol cigarettes! Oh my!

• Obama ducks more IRS fallout

• Shark flying at Cape Cod (pictured)

• Free, single and plenty of fish to choose from

• Zimbabwe presidential elections features a hair metal candidate

• Baseballer says his piece and puts everyone on high alert

• Anorexic cheerleader scandal

• Trusted news service hacked ( listen)
• Reese Witherspoon very confused

• Norway returns to darkness

• Kim il-Thatch dead and not loving it
• Dead rapper does an Elvis in the Middle East

• Gangster's uzi kills gangster's wife

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