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  • Expression
    8 years ago
    by ubthejudge
    +5 +1

    The empire the world forgot

    Ruled by a dizzying array of kingdoms and empires over the centuries – from the Byzantines to the Ottomans – the city of Ani once housed many thousands of people, becoming a cultural hub and regional power under the medieval Bagratid Armenian dynasty. Today, it’s an eerie, abandoned city of ghosts that stands alone on a plateau in the remote highlands of northeast Turkey, 45km away from the Turkish border city of Kars. As you walk among the many ruins...

  • Current Event
    8 years ago
    by mtnrg
    +1 +1

    3 injured in 4-story building collapse in Bedford-Stuyvesant

    BEDFORD-STUYVESANT, Brooklyn — Firefighters and other emergency responders rushed to the pile of rubble left after a building in Brooklyn Tuesday afternoon, injuring three people. A four-story buil...

  • Current Event
    9 years ago
    by socialiguana
    +20 +1

    At least 44 dead in Nigeria church building collapse, official says

    At least 44 people were crushed to death when a guesthouse at a large church that's home to a famous Nigerian preacher collapsed in Lagos, a rescue agency official said Sunday. In addition to those killed, there were "130 rescued from the rubble of the collapsed guesthouse at The Synagogue, Church Of All Nations," Ibrahim Farinloye, spokesman for the National Emergency Management Agency, told CNN.