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Year of the Rabbit: 5 Facts About the Chinese Astrological Sign for 2011

By David KnowlesFeb 1st 2011 – 7:15PM

Happy 4709! The Chinese Year of the Rabbit begins on Thursday. The fourth of 12 Chinese animal astrological signs, the rabbit largely represents tranquility and calm. With billions of people around the globe set to celebrate the changing of the animal guard, Surge Desk decided to explore the significance behind the...

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  • 05/29/12 Sabotage: Labor's Weapon of Choice and Opportunity? Source: Accuracy in Media Radical activist groups and labor unions associated with President Barack Obama have launched a campaign of economic sabotage.
  • 05/22/12 Citizen Dave: Are my glasses too big? Source: The Daily Page - Madison WI I bought my last pair of eyeglass frames about twelve years ago.
  • 05/16/12 Two's A Trend: Hot Communists Source: Paper Mag Lately (and randomly), it has come to our attention that before they were creating 5-year plans and committing mass atrocities in the name of Communism, Joseph Stalin and rival Leon Trotsky were, um... babes.
  • 05/12/12 If Symptoms Persist...: OLD, HUNGRY Source: The Manila Bulletin - Philippines "Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man."—
  • 04/02/12 Zan's teacher was a New Englander named Logan Hale, a... Source: the notes Zan's teacher was a New Englander named Logan Hale, a novelist in his mid-fifties of some renown; as a young man Hale had been Leon Trotsky's bodyguard in Mexico in the Thirties, resigning when he became convinced that Trotsky's inevitable murder was, for all intents and purposes, suicide—contrition by Trotsky for the Stalinism that he not only hadn't stopped but, in his own mind, set in motion.

Background on leon trotsky

Leon Trotsky (, ; – 21 August 1940), born Lev Davidovich Bronshtein, was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and theorist, Soviet politician, and the founder and first leader of the Red Army.

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