Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don't see any.
Comment preview: Praying, relaxation exercises, music, poetry, company of friends, reading a remarkable book, hearing a remarkable story, sleeping, eating good food, swiming, walking, doing exercise, watching kids playing, watching babies sleeping, watching puppies, visiti ....
Comment preview: There was one famous instance of Musashi engaging in a great melee, an *adauchi* (which as I gather is a sort of battle fought for revenge and to save face) with nearly every member of the Yoshioka clan at the Ichijoji temple on the outskirts of Kyoto. He ....
Comment preview: Good. I can't stand him. He never talks about what is actually happening and every play ends up in "That reminds, me, and I have to tell you about the remarkable story of this fine young man who's brother's best friend's mother got bullied in a donut sho ....
Comment preview: Vinnie Jones. Hod carrier and non league player, had a year playing in the amateur divisions in Sweden, joined Wimbledon, won the FA cup (and that is a quite remarkable story in itself, not dissimilar to Wigan beating Manchester City this year I guess) bec ....
Comment preview: I'm redditing from my phone, so I can't see your flair (and ergo your exact speciality), so I don't know if it's relevant to you, but this story reminded me of a project my cousin is working on -I promise this isn't a plug just because we're related. My co ....
Comment preview: If by Onna-bugeisha you mean women who were dedicated warriors, then the answer is extremely rare. Tomoe Gozen is the only individul Japanese female warrior to receive any significant description in a Japanese war account (she was described in the Heike M ....
Comment preview: Yeah that's the thing, *of course they're art*, these people have nothing to justify to anyone because they are art. What makes me angry about these guys is that they use the worst examples to prove that "gaems hab narratif cumplecksitee jus liek buks or m ....
Comment preview: I love the fact that not only are there no documented deaths from an overdose but the most famous death of any type (guy takes acid and walks out of his hotel window) turns out to have been a CIA staffer who was dosed by the government as part of MKULTRA ( ....
Comment preview: My three sisters went to a convent school in the west of Ireland where a priest raped literally half of the girls in their class. Complaints were made, but the nuns in charge never passed them on to anyone, not even to my mother, who was a lay teacher in t ....
Comment preview: [Here's a slightly happier spin on the idea](https://www.fastcompany.com/1598472/uncommon-act-design-fake-bus-stop-helps-alzheimers-patients) Edit: For the mobile (or lazy, I'm not judging) peeps >One of the most pernicious symptoms of Alzheimer's is th ....
Comment preview: I work in a traditionally female job (non-academic staff at a university), so you'd think I'd never hear this crap -- and by and large, from coworkers, I don't. Even the *men* inside this machine know better than to talk shit that would piss off 90% of the ....
Comment preview: The only celebrity I have ever met was William Hung at the LAX airport. To be honest with you this was right after he got fame for his American Idol audition. I was in high school, and my basketball team was traveling to LA to play in a tourney there. He w ....
Comment preview: Remarkable story from the Civil Rights Movement, to me anyway. Describes the level of commitment shown by both sides of the segregation battle, and the strange turns that could happen, like when a British insurance company helped desegregate the South. The ....
Comment preview: There's a nice interview with the surviving EOD engineer, who with his partner, tried to disarm one of the 1,000 lb bombs that impacted but didn't explode. It did explode with them in proximity to it after several attempts. http://www.storyvault.com/video/ ....
Comment preview: Fun Fact: Back in the 1800's there was virtually zero silk industry in the US. For silk you need silk worms, and silk worms only eat Mulberry tree leaves, and mulberry trees didn't grow in the US. But US speculators started investing, and bringing over mul ....
Comment preview: How exactly is wolfram|alpha going to help him come out of a queen's royal vagina? Unless it helps him invent DNA paternity testing a few centuries early, and then subsequently invent DNA paternity forging, and also some assassinations. But let's leave asi ....
Comment preview: I'm probably too late for anybody to read this, but John Paulson broke all records for individual trades by betting against the real-estate/credit bubble when everyone was betting FOR it. His is a remarkable story. He was not doing in secret either, he was ....
Comment preview: The reaction at the time was really divided. MASH was much more jovial in the early seasons (not that it wasn't funny later). It marked the transition from mostly comedy to a mix of comedy with heavy, dark drama. It reminded us that it was a show about war ....
Comment preview: Daniel Inouye. Second longest serving Senators in US History (representing Hawaii since it gained statehood in 1959), a witness to the attack on Pearl Harbor, declared an "enemy alien" by the US government before enlisting in WWII, which he left with this ....
Comment preview: It would seem Sunil Tripathi was under FBI surveillance before he wen't missing. There were a couple explosions in Hanover, MA a month ago. http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/1cj1ol/ He went missing several hours after the last explosion in Hanover. Th ....
Comment preview: Here is a story from an old vet who lives in the town I grew up in. He's an amazing man, he has been coming to the schools on Remembrance Day for as long as I can remember to tell his stories. In this link, you can either listen to his story about liberat ....
Comment preview: Ok dudes, South Korean here, feel like I have to chip in given the rampant amount of misinformation going on here. First off, the subject of Park Chung Hee (the president elect's father), is highly complex, and is still hotly debated by historians and pol ....
Comment preview: I did quite a bit of volunteer work on the pine ridge reservation. Anyone who thinks the native American holocaust is over hasn't been to pine ridge. Edit: As this post has gotten quite a response I wanted to add a couple of things. I did use the word holo ....
Comment preview: Justice will never come for the perpetrators of riots, both 1984 and 2002, because both of those riots involved politicians and powerful politicians. In our country, politicians don't get convicted and if convicted, hardly gets prosecuted. There is ample r ....
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