Arts & Culture

The Holy Community of the Holy Mountain at the side of Abbot Efraim

  Monday, 26 December 2011 Aimilios Polygenis   A few minutes ago, the members of the Holy Community of the…

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How 4-year-old Hitler was saved from drowning in the icy River Inn by a future priest

A 4-year-old boy – who historians believe could have been Adolf Hitler – was saved from drowning in the icy…

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100 years in 10 minutes. A century of world history from 1911 to 2011.

A YouTube video presents 100 years of world events from 1911 to 2011 into a 10-minute clip using authentic footage.…

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How Madonna declined JFK Jr.’s offer to pose as Jackie Kennedy for George magazine cover

George magazine, founded by John F. Kennedy Jr., famously featured on its covers Cindy Crawford as George Washington and Drew…

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Richard Nixon had a gay affair with a Mafia member? A new biography by Don Fulsom

It’s well known that the former US president, Richard Nixon, carpet-bombed Cambodia, spewed out anti-Semitic slurs and crude misogynistic jokes…

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Jimmy Hoffa was buried in the foundations of the towering General Motors’ HQ, a new book claims

How Teamsters union boss Jimmy Hoffa vanished in 1975 remains one of America's most enduring mysteries. After 36 years since…

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Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival features an entire ice and snow city

  The 28th Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival in China, featuring work by some of the best ice sculptors…

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Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer was invented by Montgomery Ward’s ad writer Robert L. May

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer first appeared in a 1939 book written by Robert L. May, one of the Montgomery Ward's…

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“Whatever” voted as the most annoying word for the third year in a row

A recent poll of Marist University in New York asserts that the word “whatever” was voted as the most annoying…

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Václav Havel, the former Czech president and dissident playwright, dies at 75

Václav Havel, the former Czech president and dissident playwright, who wove theater into politics to peacefully bring down communism in…

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