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...
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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...
" A far cry from the faux Palins, pirates, and princesses of today, costumes during Halloween's precursor centuries ago included animal skins and heads, drag getups, and even mechanical horse heads, historians say."
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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...
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...
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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...
"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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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"...
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...
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"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,...
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