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23,600 cultural sites "disappeared" in 3 years:China
Development at the cost of Historical Heritage. We go for development,what if that development costs you loss of 23,600 heritage sites in just three years. Yes, that is shocking, the survey conducted by the historical department of China says that more than 23000 historical... Death of Chocolate?
It's hard to believe but some scientists are claiming that chocolate will become as rare and expensive as caviar in the next 20 years. The study comes from the Ghana-based Nature... Best, Worst, and Most Memorable Campaign Ads of 2008
Huffington Post has put together the best, worst, and most memorable Campaign Ads of 2008."It is tradition in every campaign for each side to denounce the other as having run the sleaziest race in modern...
created by Rhonda J Mangus | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago
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1347 views | 52 recommendations | 19 comments
Cheney must keep records, judge orders
"WASHINGTON (AP) -- A federal judge on Saturday ordered Dick Cheney to preserve a wide range of the records from his time as vice president. ...Lawsuit to Ask That Cheney's Papers Be Made Public
Government transparency advocates are suing to make sure Cheney's records are not destroyed and that the public has access to them. Cheney insists the Vice President is not part of the Executive Branch and not subject to these rules." Months before the Bush administration... 'Missing Link' in Canadian hockey found
Can you imagine the absolute chaos of a hockey game with 40 or 50 people on each team? This is quite a fascinating story about an 1839 reference to hockey, the second oldest ever found. The... Machu Picchu ruin 'found earlier'
The lost city of the Incas, Machu Picchu, was apparently discovered more than 40 years earlier than previously thought, according to historians. The site is believed to have been ransacked by a German...
created by Rachel Nixon | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago
1375 views | 34 recommendations | 14 comments
1375 views | 34 recommendations | 14 comments
An affair between Queen Victoria and her waiter Abdul Karim
"She was the Queen of Great Britain. He was a dining room waiter in India. The story of a 'love affair' between Queen Victoria and Hafiz Abdul Karim aka Munshi has fascinated historians. They say he was very...
created by Richard Drewmore | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
3318 views | 5 recommendations | 8 comments
3318 views | 5 recommendations | 8 comments
'Earliest known recording of sound' discovered
Thomas Edison may not have been the first to record fat beats. "For more than a century, since he captured the spoken words “Mary had a little lamb” on a sheet of tinfoil, Thomas Edison has been considered the...
created by Rob Peters | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
1069 views | 12 recommendations | 4 comments
1069 views | 12 recommendations | 4 comments
BC's JFK Love Child: "DNA testing won't change it"
The media reports and confirmation that Vancouver's Jack Worthington, 46 is former U.S. President John F. Kennedy's Love Child born in the early 1960's. Worthington it is said by some bears an uncanny resemblance...
created by Barry ORegan | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
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3422 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
Islamic treasure fetches 1,000 times estimate in sale
" LONDON (Reuters) - A rare 11th century rock crystal ewer, misidentified as a 19th Century French claret jug, has sold for 220,000 pounds at auction, more than one thousand times its pre-sale estimate, the Art Newspaper said on Monday. Experts believe the artefact's real...US Celebrates Martin Luther King Jr.'s Legacy
While you're having fun on your day off (that is, if you're a USAian and your company's actually giving you today as a holiday), take some time off to reflect on why it's a holiday. And get to know more about MLK Jr. -- he's not just the guy who gave the "I Have A Dream"...Experts determine Mona Lisa identity
German experts have confirmed the Mona Lisa painting is a portrait of Lisa Gherardini, the wife of a wealthy Florentine merchant.The discovery of notes scribbled in the margins of a book belonging to the... 'Mona Lisa' mystery solved
"Lisa Gherardini, the wife of a wealthy Florentine merchant, Francesco del Giocondo, has long been seen as the most likely model for the sixteenth-century painting.
But art historians have often wondered whether the smiling woman may actually have been da Vinci's lover,... NowPublic on Facebook
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