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Strange Geographies: 2009 Roundup
I’ve put a lot of miles on my car and my frequent flier card this year, tramping through villages in the South Pacific, abandoned buildings around California, the shorelines of toxic seas and junkyards...
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The world’s largest statue of Jesus is being constructed in a small Polish town. The new statue will eclipse Rio’s “Christ the Redeemer” and will help…
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Card Game World Domination: The Rise of ‘Dominion’
Most of the highly regarded “German-style” board games on the market today are true board games, with physical boards that are either set up at the game’s start or built as the game goes along. Very...
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Travelers: Should You Flush that Toilet Paper?
Matthew Kitson spent a few months traveling around in South America and stumbled into the most perplexing bathroom quandary ever to face the traveling public: what to do with the toilet paper after...
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Carnival Bateria
You might not be able to fly down to Rio for Carnival, but you can hear and feel a “bateria,” a samba school drum section, in this web toy from Brazil. Enjoy the rhythm, or toggle on and off the...
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Four Neglected Wild West Figures
You’ve heard of Wyatt Earp, Billy the Kid, and Wild Bill Hickok, but there were plenty of other colorful figures who left their mark on the Wild West. This list tells us about four that you may never...
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How Fake Money Saved Brazil
Twenty years ago, Brazil found itself in the grips of hyperinflation. Its inflation rate hit 80% a month, and the country was in financial free fall. Economists at the Catholic University in Rio came...
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Pikachu Sunrise
Photo: Luis Argerich – via Buzzfeed First it was Sunsquatch, now Pikachu sunrise! Argentinian photographer Luis Argerich took this photo of an unusual sunrise over Rio de La Plata. APOD explains that...
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The Fashionable Russian Army Ensembles Of The 1890s
The men who made up the ranks of the Russian Army in the late 1800s were a rather fashionable bunch, and some of the shots in this gallery look like they came straight out of a fashion magazine. Maybe...
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"Magic" Phone Booth Lets Kids Call Santa
What’s better than writing a letter to Santa? Well, obviously, the answer is talking to him on the phone, then getting a gift, then having snow magically appear from nowhere with the press of a button...
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