When Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, leader of the Russian Revolution, died in 1924, his body was mummified and placed on display at the Kremlin wall in Moscow.
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]]> THE world's first seven-star hotel is offering $1 million holidays with private butler, day trips in a private jet and a stay in a gold-accented suite.
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]]> Consumers everywhere need to know the truth about fur. When people learn that millions of innocent animals are beaten, boiled, hanged, and electrocuted for their fur every year ... when they learn that every fur coat, lining, trim, or fur cat toy
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]]> Mutter Museum in Philadelphia, PA. It's a museum of medical oddities. They have many exhibits of conjoined twins... It's extremely disturbing.
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]]> Fasting for one day each month may reduce the risk of clogged arteries by 40 percent, according to a new study conducted by researchers from Intermountain Medical Center and the University of Utah
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]]> Ms. Pickler threw up both hands and looked at the large blackboard perplexed. “I thought Europe was a country,” she said.
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]]> Traditional Japanese style as it not using a machine!!!
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]]> He reported that Orangutans are not only kept as pets, but that sharia law is applied to them and their hand is cut off if they steal, for example an orange. Moreover, it was reported that female Orangutans are shaved and kept in brothels for the gratifi
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]]> Believe it or not, it is easy and fun to teach your pet fish to swim through hoops and tunnels, do the limbo, eat from your hand - even play soccer! This is NOT a joke. You can do it yourself, using the new R2 Fish School Training Kit.
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]]> This is a PETITION from IFAW to Stop the trade of Ivory on e-Bay and Worldwide. So if you wish to join 49,000 plus, please click on site and sign the petition. Thank you for caring.
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]]> Huddled in a small wicker basket in the corner of a makeshift cattery sleeps a miracle. Pirate’s head peers over the basket’s edge for a mere second — long enough to display his remaining glossy eye that tells the story of a long journey to wellness.
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]]> It's no small step, considering that 20 to 50 million tons of electronics waste is discarded globally every year, according to Greenpeace. If all that e-rubbish were put into containers on a train it would go once around the world!
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]]> An autistic woman who had worked at the McDonald's in downtown Berkeley for 21 years showed up at her job in March, after a change in ownership, and was told that she and two other disabled workers were no longer needed, she says."I was devastated ...
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]]> Bayer Corporation put live H.I.V. Virus in their hemophiliac medicine for children- and shipped it all over the world. This is complete and utter TERRORISM and all those involved are guilty according to experts I have been reading on google.
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]]> A man has been arrested in Ocala, Florida, after robbing not just one, but two banks using cheques from his own current account to write the demand notes.
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]]> The slave trade did not end with the civil war. In fact, there are more than 27 million people enslaved around the world right now, according to an info-graphic from Good magazine.
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]]> It's amazing how much you can learn years later about evidence that's been right under your nose all along.
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]]> EMF Microwave Transmissions and ELF Transmissions work by matching the Megahertz EM Frequency of the Alpha and Theta Waves in the Human Brain.It is a global, 24 hour a day,CIA and NSA Program,. Get God Conscious,Help Save Our Earth, and Yourself.
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]]> Ok, bad pun, but more and more people are having their granite countertops checked for radiation. Why? Read all about it here.
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]]> The visit of Obama to Iraq on Monday underscores once again that the opposition to militarism among millions of Americans has been completely disenfranchised by the Dem Party. Obama used the trip to clarify his commitment to indefinite occupation of Iraq
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]]> THE U.S. is dangling carrots in front of Iran to suspend its uranium enrichment program--but only after smacking the Iranians with some increasingly big sticks in the form of sanctions.
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]]> Who knows? There's so much sweetheart dealing, kickbacking & other corruption in these military (and other government) contracts. All I know is I am boiling mad over these auditors being for telling the truth. RIPPED OFF AGAIN by our friends in DC.
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]]> Yet another example of the lack legal - and moral - accountability that has been the hallmark of nearly all US federal agencies during the George & Dick show. Contemptible!
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]]> Sneezing is not a good sign for healthy dogs. You cannot do much for the problem on your own. There are too many possibilities & you need to get it checked up by a vet. Here are some proven natural remedies to use as supportive & preventative measures.
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]]> AUSTRALIA: You would think guaranteed whale watching is a little presumptuous, and perhaps something only suited for kids. But after spending a day on the ocean, it's clear adults get more excited than children about seeing giant humpback whales.
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]]> An article about two workers that got eaten by starving bears.
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]]> A 35-year-old man was convicted on Tuesday of murder, attempted murder, aggravated robbery and theft. He was given a life sentence. All of the man’s victims were gay men. “All the victims were, or are, homosexual. He has taken
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]]> July 20th at the "DNC/RNC Bay Area Consulta" in San Francisco, the first open meeting of local activists interested in participating in direct actions against the Democratic and Republican national conventions, plans
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]]> A drunken elk paid dearly after attacking a toddler playing in a sand pit at her home in Kungälv in western Sweden on Monday. Three-year-old Nova was playing in her backyard sandbox when a young elk calf attacked and bit her.
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]]> Did Barack Obama provide false information on his Illinois Bar Application in 1991?
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]]> Obama's approval rating with registered Latino voters, the nationwide Pew Hispanic Center poll found, is at 66 percent versus 23 percent favoring McCain.
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]]> The Bush administration told the CIA in 2002 that its interrogators working abroad would not violate U.S. prohibitions against torture unless they “have the specific intent to inflict severe pain or suffering,” according to a previously secret Justice
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]]> The owner of the barge that spilled about 420,000 gallons of industrial fuel in the Mississippi River near New Orleans contended Thursday that the company was not to blame for the accident, but said it will be responsible for the cleanup.
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]]> ...a small crowd is better than a large one, a passionate crowd inferior to a bored one, where drawing a million people in Berlin is less likely to be compared with Ronald Reagan or John F. Kennedy but to Hitler Youth chanting ``Sieg heil!''
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]]> Hundreds of Calgarians lined city streets on Tuesday to watch 15 solar-powered cars complete a 3,862-kilometre odyssey from Texas to Alberta.
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]]> back in 2003 John McCain stood shoulder to shoulder with the Berlin-bashers and Paris-hating purveyors of “freedom fries” and “old Europe.”
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]]> Slightly more than half (53%) of Americans in the new poll do not approve of candidates making statements contrary to U.S. government policy while visiting U.S. troops in a war zone. Only 29% believe that it’s okay to do so.
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]]> It contains 20% of the world's total unfrozen freshwater reserve. Known as the 'Galapagos of Russia', its age and isolation have produced one of the world's richest and most unusual freshwater faunas
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]]> Russia’s bears have traditionally been a national symbol of pride and potency, mythologized in fairy tales and depicted in advertisements and on the flag of Russia’s top political party.
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]]> Conforming to the emergency legislation passed by the General Assembly, the court expedited rulemaking process.
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]]> On June 28,a crowd of at least 13,000 (some estimated 30,000) gathered near the City Hall in Seoul to protest the government’s decision to allow US imports of beef to South Korea.The issue is huge in South Korea,brought out up to half a million protesters
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