" A lost city discovered deep in the Amazon rainforest could unlock the secrets of a legendary tribe. Little is known about the Cloud People of Peru, an ancient, white-skinned civilisation wiped out by disease and war in the 16th century. But now archaeologists have...
" A team of Japanese adventurers say they have discovered footprints they believe were made by the legendary yeti said to roam the Himalayan regions of Nepal and Tibet."
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Pretty neat to see someone from such a famous family strike out on her own. It can't be easy living underneath such a giant shadow."The granddaughter of legendary ocean explorer Jacques Cousteau is making her own...
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It will certainly surprise more than a few Brits to learn that Glasgow was the only UK city to feature in a new ranking of the top 10 world cities. Glasgow has a reputation for being a very industrial, gritty place, with the local accent being so strong it is sometimes almost...
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"Master blaster Sachin Tendulkar tops the list of world’s best 100 Test cricketers named by legendary spinner Shane Warne in his book Shane Warne’s Century, which also features as many as 10 other Indians. The list in Warne’s book released on October 2 is almost...
" September 27, 2008 (by Otto Smyth) According to reports by Los Angeles car accident attorneys, the legendary actor, racecar driver and entrepreneur of Newman’s Own food line has passed away after his battle...
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A group of explorers in Japan are combing the Himalayas in a directed effort to find the Yeti. The expedition launched mid-August, 2008. "Over the next two months, a team of Japanese explorers hopes to obtain indisputable video evidence confirming the existence of the...
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Just read this first:"Men like women who resemble dear old mom, and women like men who look like dear old dad, a computer analysis now shows. Scientists in Hungary investigated 52 university students and their parents. They also looked at the significant others of the...
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Yup, it's true. It really is true."The elephant's memory is legendary, but in a large, gray surprise to science, the mighty Asian elephant turns out to have a distinct flair for math as well Under carefully controlled experimental conditions — essentially...
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As Ryder Cup fever sweeps the golf world competition for the European Team wildcard places has led to two of the top players having a verbal set-to that would see them being accused of ungentlemanly conduct had it...
RIP and R-E-S-P-E-C-T to the acclaimed music journalist and producer Jerry Wexler who died today at the age of 91. Wexler helped shape the careers and sounds of soul and R&B legends like Aretha Franklin,...
The funeral for soul singer Isaac Hayes will be held this coming Monday, August 18th, in Cordova, TN, just outside of Memphis. As NowPublic previously reported, the singer died last Sunday of a stroke, at the...
" Music icon, legendary soul singer/songwriter (who wrote the theme song for "Shaft"), producer, and actor, Isaac Hayes, 65, who began his music career in the early 1960s as a session player for numerous acts for...
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I've actually heard younger kids referring to Mad World as "that Gears of War song", because of the ubiquitous advert featuring a lone futuristic soldier facing a gigantic alien bug to the tune of the Tears for Fears classic.Now Gears gets the big-screen treatment. I predict...
I have to admit, video game movies usually don't do very well. It's very difficult to translate a more interactive, hands-on experience into a passive one like a movie, and often the gimmicks or sheer fun of playing the game helped a gamer look past a shoddy plot and poor...