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18The Most Beautiful Places on Earth - Why I Want a Villa on Lake Como like Clooney, Madonna & Pliny the Elder
Santa Maddalena, Italy It makes sense why people want to live here, just look at the picture. Have you ever seen a more beautiful place on earth? Technically this is not on the lake, it is a little village called Santa Maddelena, but even more than...
20Moonrise Kingdom -- Wes Anderson's Best Yet
Once in a while a movie is privileged to have excellent writing, acting and directing. Even more rare is having these all come together in the same film with relative unknowns shining past veteran actors. In Moonrise Kingdom, Wes Anderson, (The...
27The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel--Outsourcing the Elderly and Beautiful
The Exotic Marigold Hotel for the Elderly and Beautiful is a charming story of late blooming romance and a thoroughly entertaining progression of our penchant to outsource to the third world everything we can't afford to do in our own countries. The...
28Pasadena--Why You May Never Want to Leave
Pasadena has given the world Jackie Robinson, Julia Child, the Rose Bowl, the Cheeseburger, the Mars landing, See's Candy and its most famous "little old lady." When Marty visited the professor in "Back to the Future" it was in Pasadena's fabulous...
22How Many Polemics Does it Take to Change a Demagogue?
According to Aristotle, the worst type of democracy is the one in which those who govern do not do so because they deserve to, but govern because they are able to pervert the rule of the majority by demagoguery. In a true democracy the rule of the...
35Mindjacked--The Perils of Finding the Most Beautiful Woman in the World
Miranda Kerr, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Candice Swanepoel, and Doutzen Kroes. Ok I admit it. Women, I adore you. I love your smile, your hair, the way you walk, the way you laugh and yes, if you are also breathtakingly beautiful, I melt just like...
25Things You Can Do Today that Scare You
Living fearlessly is not the same thing as never being afraid. It's good to be afraid occasionally. Fear is a great teacher. ~ Michael Ignatieff You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience by which you really...
15Warrior Review- Some Things are Worth Fighting For
Sometimes you can pick your battles and sometimes life brings the fight to you. In Warrior, two brothers Tommy Riordan and Brenden Conlon (Joel Edgerton, Tom Hardy) and their father Paddy Conlon (Nick Nolte), all have their own desperate reasons to...
37Why The Love You Take is Equal to the Love You Make
Love is a paradox. The more you hoard it, the less you have and when you give it away, you have more left than you gave. A decade ago on September 11, 2001, some men's inhumanity to man was perpetrated and our nation reeled from the impact. There...
24Nonsense and Toilet Paper (and saving the planet)
Did you know that the average person uses up over 384 full-grown trees in his lifetime just by employing the soft fluffy toilet tissue we have all come to love and at times, desperately need? Put another way, did you know that 17,000 of these...
38Why Women Love Mr. Darcy
Ok, the wet shirt scene made women swoon, but that's not the only reason. What makes this man the heartthrob of millions of women and the grudging hero of the many men whose significant other made them watch or read it? Could it be that the...
0If a Man Falls in a Rainforest...Murder by Chatroulette III
Graham sensed, rather than heard the dart and ducked just as it buried itself in the tree where his head had been. He didn't have to look, had it reached its intended target, the curare would have caused a paralysis of his respiratory muscles and in...
47Midnight in Paris - In Search of La Belle Epoque
I saw Midnight in Paris tonight. and I finally experienced what I have been wanting for years--a superbly written Woody Allen script with him forgoing the acting role to concentrate on directing. Allen was able to delightfully explore the...
20What Happens in Russia, Stays in Russia--Murder by Chatroulette
The van pulled out of traffic and viciously cut us off, the limousine forced into incoming traffic. Our driver was good but he overcompensated, ricocheted off a couple of cars and barely missed the divider before coming to a stop two feet from a...
29Murder by Chatroulette
I was the latest version of Doctor Who and my current traveling companion, Scarlett Johansson, was on the phone saying: "You'd better get over here, I wouldn't call you this late if it wasn't important." Somehow I woke up and realized it wasn't...
69Why Men Love a Muse
What is it about an attractive or intriguing woman that turns an ordinary man into a creative whirlwind? What magical process enables him to invent, to sculpt, to paint, to write or to compose a masterpiece out of thin air simply by concentrating on...
33Birds That Never Land, Stories that Don't End
Aloft she hovers on words he utters Alone he watched as words break free Castles forming, valleys greening Rivers flowing, clouds as he Speaks of beauty beyond comparing Wonders glimpsed at edge of sight Moons waning, stars weaving ...
58Habit Your Way
First we make our habits, then our habits make us. ~ Charles C. Noble Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones. ~ Benjamin Franklin William James said we are two...
35The Myopia Club
Ever since I was a teenager, I have awakened every morning in a kindly and forgiving haze. No sharp edges, no shocking self images in the mirror, just a cozy, comfortable view of my surroundings. When necessary I would put on my glasses and take in...
114The Most Watched Movies of All Time
I love movies. Next to a good book there is nothing that can capture your attention and fuel your emotions like a well written and superbly directed movie. In this article I have listed my personal pick of movies that are so well done and leave you...
20Secretariat - Some Risks Are Worth Taking
What if you knew a secret that few others knew or could even understand. What if there was something in your life that so captured your hopes, dreams and imagination that you risked everything to see the dream develop into exciting reality? There...
30Crazy ABC's and Barenaked Ladies
Please Play the Video Below While You Visit this Hub Steven Page and Ed Robertson were long time friends and schoolmates in Canada. When they were bored at a Bob Dylan concert, they came up with crazy names for singing groups, one of which was...
56Five Guys vs In-N-Out Burgers
Starting in Virginia and the East Coast, Five Guys has expanded to over 625 locations in over 40 states and 4 Canadian provinces and is now in California In-N-Out has grown from a single drive-through in Baldwin Park to 202 restaurants in...
73The Belly Laugh Gym
In the virtual world if you download more than your system can handle you just erase it or add more memory and your computer looks exactly the same. In your regular life that never happens. Whenever we stray into the dessert section of the buffet...
56"Why" is the Secret to "How" - Lessons from Viktor Frankl
What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him. ~...
44Ten Awesome Dance Scenes
For those of you who are true technique aficionados I humbly apologize. These may not be the most exceptional examples of technique, but in the spirit of my other hub on the subject: Dance-Like-the-Whole-Worlds-Watching they made me want to dance or...
84What if God Was One of Us
What if God was one of us? In the movie Bruce Almighty, Morgan Freeman is delightful as God and also is the homeless dude holding up cardboard signs throughout the film. The homeless guy morphs into Morgan in the last few frames--making the point I...
115How to Succeed in Hubpages Without Really Trying
In the 1967 movie "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying," the hero, J. Pierpont Finch replies to a coworker: Be patient? Don't you realize I've been working here...well, two whole hours now? The young aspiring hero follows a book with...
53Dance Like the Whole World's Watching
Please send me your last pair of shoes, worn out with dancing as you mentioned in your letter, so that I might have something to press against my heart. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A rhythm begins in your soul Your body moves The music...
34When to Take a Bullet
Would you take a bullet for someone? Who would it be? Under what circumstances? What if the bullet wasn't a bullet, but something just as hard. Suppose someone you love is going through a tough time and they turn on you and say an impossibly hard...
77How to Stay Motivated When You're Barely Hanging On
The shrill sound of the heart monitor sends everyone in the room to action: "Patient is crashing! Get me the paddles! Clear! " Zap!...."Again, clear! " Zap! "He's not responding. Listen! You can't give up on me now! You are going to live! Clear!...
151I Decided to Be Myself Since Everyone Else is Taken
We probably wouldnât worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do. ~ Olin Miller Since I am a decent and caring person, I try to live my life in a way that does not offend others. In fact, I might even go so far...
43Singularity-The World's Best Kiss
You touched my cheek and folded into me I looked into eyes that smiled into my soul Your arms encircled me, drawing me close My lips touched yours and the taste of you flowed into me An underground spring Filling my senses ...
19Chloë Grace Moretz: Hit Girl
Eleven year old Chloë Grace Moretz dominates in the action movie "Kick-Ass" by director Matthew Vaughn. Chloë, who is now thirteen, has been at the center of controversy, not for an eleven-year old handily dispatching a roomful of thugs with...
71Everyone is a Weed in Someone's Garden
I have always been fascinated by the concept of weeds. Tenacious, frustrating, masters of survival. They have been referred to as "nature's graffiti." Some have been so successful they have earned their own place in horticulture as grass,...
79I've Lost My Mind and I Can't Remember Where I Put It
What would an extra year or so of life be worth to you? Now don't get the wrong idea, I am not the devil. There will be no bargaining for your soul at the end of this article. If I do , however, show you how to gain the extra year or so and you feel...
18The Frog as Prince
Imagine a hero, a tall, handsome, charismatic, dashing figure of a man with a perfect smile, a twinkle in his eyes and charm to spare. Now imagine a slimey-skinned, no-tail creature with protruding eyes, a long sticky tongue, oversized awkward legs...
8High Paying Jobs with Education or Training instead of Experience
'Want to start your job career in an exciting field but you're worried you might not have the right kind of experience? Well start your engines, because there are many jobs you can enter with little or no experience and start earning a decent...
22Ten Coveted Jobs Requiring No Experience
Yes Virginia, there is a job you can love doing without actually having done it before. There are jobs in national parks, health care, zoo keeping, newspapers, cruise lines, fashion, airlines, the NBA, the White House, finance, television,...
26Twenty Ways to Shorten Long Distance Relationships
1. Make a "There's No Place Like Home " box. Make something, Shop at their favorite places. Buy their favorite foods from restaurants they like where you are and send it "next day" to them. Try to pick foods that will hold up for the trip and...
22Jesus Won't Stay Where You Put Him
Jesus has a way of never staying where you put him. In a stereotype, in a boat, in a tomb--Jesus often appears in a place you never thought to look and often is missing in the place you expect him to be. When he was twelve, his parents and...
15Dizzy, Yardbird and the Prince of Darkness
Source: SydneyRandolphMaurer.com In 1945, a group called Charlie Parker and His Re-Boppers performed a jazz composition called "Billie's Bounce." The original lineup of the group featured Charlie "Yardbird" Parker on the alto saxophone, Miles...
57Everything I Need to Know about Relationships I Learned from My Dog
©Winsome Publishing 2010, All rights reserved So few words and yet it says so much. Thankyou for expressing this is such a great way. Aahhhhhh I love our dogs we now have a new edition to our family a third Cocker Spaniel this is a touching hub I...
20Love is the Happiness that Results From Giving Your Heart Away
Love is more than a feeling, More than a promise Love is working all day With the memory of a smile Keeping your feet off the ground Itâs being the best you can be Because the one you love deserves no less Itâs choosing to...
36A Simple Guide to Happiness
Be hungry for the best life has to offer "Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than...
27Five Secrets for Peace of Mind
Start by Lightening Up If you've ever been awake in the middle of the night all stressed out over problems or hurt emotions, sometimes you need a little extra help. Laughter, according to Proverbs 17:22 is therapeutic. A merry heart doeth good,...
37How to Be Funny 101
Learning to be funny starts with appreciating unusual perspectives. After a while, the things that make you laugh start to alter your own perception and when you describe your reality that way, others start to laugh. Proponents of M-Theory (If you...
