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Burqa-wearing Rock Guitarist Aims to Break Barriers
Gisele Marie, a Muslim woman and professional heavy metal musician, plays her Gibson Flying V electric guitar during a concert in Sao Paulo December 16, 2014. Based in Sao Paulo, Marie, 42, is the granddaughter of German Catholics, and converted to Islam several months after her father passed away.
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Mysterious Arrival: The Man From Taured
The man presented an authentic looking European passport and carried European currency from several countries and carried himself in a professional manner but that wasn’t what alerted the authorities. No matter how much they had searched, the Customs agents could not find the European country that had issued him the passport anywhere in their maps. The unheard country of Taured. When they asked the Caucasian man to point on their map where Taured was located, he answered them in fluent Japanese.
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The Best Coffee Table Books The World Has Never Seen
What do your coffee table books say about you? Be sure to make an impression and show off who you really are with these eight original coffee table books.
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Tourist captures spectacular ‘fire rainbow cloud’ phenomenon on camera
There’s a perfectly reasonable explanation for the stunning sky display. By Mark Molloy.
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Slain spirit medium’s lottery numbers ‘too accurate’
A 41-year-old spirit medium with a reputation for accurately predicting winning numbers was gunned down near his shrine in Nakhon Si Thammarat [Thailand] on Wednesday, and police suspect angry underground lottery operators ordered the murder.
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‘Mysterious light in sky’ spooks California
A mysterious bright light in the sky over Los Angeles sends Californians into panic - only for it to be explained as an offshore missile test.
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Playing God
I sold my wife’s clothes to build a Christmas village in my parents’ basement. By Richard Kelly Kemick.
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Was Ripon school gripped by mass psychogenic illness?
What doctors used to call mass hysteria usually occurs among close-knit groups as anxiety weaves its way through, causing physical symptoms. By Ian Sample.
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Passing Out of Sight
A Chronicle of Strange Disappearances. By Scott Corrales.
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Lakes are forming on top of Mount Everest’s glaciers
Pools of meltwater are coalescing into lakes on Mount Everest’s debris-strewn Khumbu Glacier. The accumulation of water makes the ice melt even more quickly. By Sarah Kaplan.
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11-foot gator eats burglary suspect hiding in Florida pond
Hide in a gator pond. Yeah, why not?
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The Bermuda Triangle: Whatever became of the myth
Seventy years after the disappearance of five planes in the Atlantic, Giles Milton investigates one of the world’s most enduring aviation mysteries. By Giles Milton.
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Irish Fairies and Irish Food: The Mary Doheny Trial
“Now what, on earth, is going on in this account? The newspapers that wrote about Doheny described her as a ‘witch,’ but it would be closer to the truth to call her a ‘fairy woman’ or a ‘fairy doctor’: the nineteenth-century media, particularly in Britain, constantly misunderstood Irish fairy superstitions, confusing the same with witchcraft...” By Dr Simon Young.
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The Temple of Damanhur
Oberto Airaudi was 28 years old when he began his great work in 1975. By Dylan Thuras.
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Have a Creepy Little Christmas with These Unsettling Victorian Cards
Anthropomorphic cats, murderous frogs, and insects dancing by the moonlight aren’t exactly part of our Christmas card tradition today.
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On the Hunt for America’s Last Great Treasure
Millionaire Forrest Fenn launched a thousand trips when he announced in 2010 that he had filled a chest with gold, rubies, and diamonds, and hidden it somewhere north of Santa Fe. By: Peter Frick-Wright. (Aug. 11)
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Fleeting Wonders: 400 Glow-in-the-Dark Reindeer
If you're on the lookout for magical reindeer this year, don't bother gazing skyward... By Cara Giaimo.
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7 of the Weirdest TV Shows That We Can’t Believe Really Existed
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Unprecedented: Simultaneous January Named Storms in the Atlantic and Central Pacific
Simultaneous January named storms are spinning in both the Atlantic and Central Pacific, something that would have been unimaginable just a few decades ago. The earliest named storm on record in the Central Pacific, Hurricane Pali, formed on January 7, and now the Atlantic has joined the early-season hurricane party, with Subtropical Storm Alex spinning up into history in the waters about 785 miles south-southwest of the Azores Islands on January 13.
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The Alchemy of Madness
Understanding a Seventeenth-Century “Brain Scan.” By Benjamin Breen.
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