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900 year old Magical Monastery in Norway
Between the years 1100 and 1300s, there were about 1000 stave churches built along the old trade routes in Norway. The Borgund Stavkirke is the best preserved of any today and is a truly unique temple to visit.
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Portraits of Albanian Women Who Have Lived Their Lives As Men
For her project Sworn Virgins of Albania, photographer Jill Peters visited to the mountain villages of northern Albania to capture portraits of “burneshas,” or females who have lived their lives as men for reasons related to their culture and society.
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The World’s Coolest Stage
Check out this incredible floating stage on Lake Constance in Bregenz, Austria. The Bregenzer Festspiele (Bregenz Festival) has become renowned for its unconventional staging of shows.
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Paris rally against gay marriage
Hundreds of thousands of protesters have taken to the streets of Paris over plans to give gay couples in France the right to marry and adopt children.
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Haze clears over Dutch cannabis law
Smoking pot in the Netherlands is now a city-by-city choice for tourists.
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Thieves dig tunnel to burglarize Berlin bank
German police have launched an investigation after thieves tunneled into the safe deposit room of a Berlin bank. The group escaped with their haul, starting a fire as they left to cover their tracks.
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Topless feminists crash the Pope's Sunday mass
A group of feminists engaged in a campaign to Take Back the Rite on Sunday, disrupting the Pope’s regular morning mass at the Vatican by stripping off and yelling at Pope Benedict XVI to “Shut up.”
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Undercover with the neo-Nazis
Disguises, pseudonyms and Hitler's salute were all part of one man's secret mission to infiltrate Europe’s far-right scene.
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Horsemeat found in beefburgers on sale in UK and Ireland
Horse DNA has been found in some beefburgers being sold in UK and Irish supermarkets, the Republic of Ireland's food safety authority (FSAI) has said.
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End of the Line, Bulgaria
Urban Decay & Other Curiosities...
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30 Beautifully Haunting Shipwrecks From Around the World
Naval history is full of fatal accidents and wartime losses. Even knowing that, it's astonishing to think that, according to a United Nations report, there are more than 3 million shipwrecks on the ocean floor.
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Google buys $1 billion plot of land for new central London HQ
Google is building its new UK headquarters in central London. The company this week purchased a 2.4-acre plot in the King's Cross Central development.
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Parcel Camera Captures Photos of Julian Assange's Life in Hiding
Since June 19th of last year, political activist and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been living inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London.
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The Animals That Have Taken Refuge in Chernobyl’s Radioactive Zone
Read Mary Mycio’s story about Chernobyl’s wildlife here. When Mary Mycio tells people she visited the radioactive fallout zone around Chernobyl to study the region’s animals, the questions are always the same. Do the animals have two heads? Do they glow?
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Prince Harry on Afghan mission: 'Take a life to save a life'
Britain's Prince Harry has acknowledged that he killed Taliban insurgents on his latest tour of duty in Afghanistan as a crew member of an Apache attack helicopter.
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Extremely Rare Color Photography of Early 1900s Paris
Although some of these images might look like a modern day photography and some of them like painted pictures, actually it is real colored photographies, taken at the beginning of the 20th century Paris (France). It is extremely astonishing to look at the world now long gone, the world which you are used to see in black & white images and often with poor quality.
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Politician escapes assassination attempt
A man Saturday approached Bulgarian opposition politician Ahmet Dogan, who was at a lectern giving a speech at a party conference in Sofia, the capital city.
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Norway goat cheese fire closes tunnel
About 27 tonnes of caramelised brown goat cheese - a delicacy known as Brunost - caught light as it was being driven through the Brattli Tunnel at Tysfjord, northern Norway, last week.
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I Was Going To Complain About My Free 5-Star Hotel — Then I Found Out It's Only $400 A Night
So no worries!
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German court rules internet essential
A German court ruled on Thursday that people have the right to claim compensation from service providers if their Internet access is disrupted, because the Internet is an essential part of life.
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