25 Alternative Uses for Olive Oil

Here are the ones that I found interesting and may even try:

Shave. Olive oil can provide a safe and natural lubricant for a close shave.

Remove paint from your skin. Rub on olive oil onto messy hand and arms (or faces) and allow the oil to soak into the skin for five minutes, then rinse with soap and water.

And I can’t believe they listed #20.

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List of oldest continuously inhabited cities

This is a list of the oldest, still surviving, towns and cities in the world. There are some points of contention here and care should be taken when using the list below. The cities have been listed because either the archaeological record has shown, or documents have supported the claim, that the settlement was in existence at the time given.

Surprisingly, Mineral Wells, TX isn’t anywhere on this list.

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Watching Star Wars for the first time

It’s 30 years since the release of sci-fi classic Star Wars, considered by many to be among the greatest films of all-time.

Reporter Kevin Young prepares to enter the Star Wars universe
But what would it be like to watch it now, for the first time?

BBC News entertainment reporter Kevin Young’s sole exposure to science-fiction to date consists of lusting after Gillian Anderson in The X-Files for a while in the 1990s.

Despite fearing it was two hours of his life he’d “never get back”, he offered to lose his Star Wars virginity.

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Lots of movie remakes this summer

Variety magazine reported recently that out of 46 studio movies scheduled for wide release this summer, almost half are sequels or remakes. (And that’s without “disguised” remakes, such as the hit thriller Disturbia, which rehashes Rear Window, or the current Are We Done Yet?, which is really a third version of Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House).

For cinemagoers in their 30s or older, the deja vu is about to become even more intense. Some of the titles coming soon, yet again, to a cinema near you date from the 1970s or earlier – The Taking of Pelham One Two Three starts shooting later this year, with new versions of The Women, Bunny Lake Is Missing, Barbarella, The Heartbreak Kid, The Birds and Don’t Look Now in the offing.

If that doesn’t sound like a lot of remakes, that’s because we have not mentioned the new versions of All of Me (with Queen Latifah in the Lily Tomlin role), Clash of the Titans, Creepshow, Dressed to Kill, The Entity, The Evil Dead, Fame, The Fly (itself a remake), Hellraiser, The Long Good Friday (transposed to the US), Near Dark, Piranha, Scanners, Short Circuit, The Star Chamber, Taps and Tony Scott’s LA-set revamp of that quintessential New York movie, The Warriors.

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