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The Lost City - Machu Picchu (PHOTOS)

Machu Picchu: The Lost City (PHOTOS)

The forbidden ancient city Machu Picchu was a lost city for more than 100 years. It was believed that the city remained unknown to the world until July 24, 1911 when Yale professor Hiram Bingham III discovered the ancient Inca city. This day is marked in the history as the ?Discovery Day of the Ancient Inca City Machu Picchu".

International Space Station Won?t be Dumped in Ocean

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Russian Space Agency Roscosmos went back on its words on Thursday after an uproar over a statement by agency?s deputy head, who said on Wednesday that Russia and its partners plan to sink the International Space Station in the ocean.
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Paulo Coelho Advocates Piracy of Books

Paulo Coelho, the bestselling author and the most translated author in the world (53 languages at the last count), wrote an article recently where he says that he believes in allowing online book sharing and does not mind people pirating his books in this manner.
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Casey Anthony

Casey Anthony Will be Paid $500,000 if She Goes Nude: Hustler

Casey Anthony, the most hated name in the U.S., yet one of the expensive names as well. The 25-year-old has got an offer from Larry Flynt's Hustler magazine. The porno magazine wants Casey to pose naked and if she does that, she will be paid $500,000.
Jonathan May-Bowles

"Humble" foam pie protester admits Murdoch assault

A British protester who threw a plate of foam at Rupert Murdoch during a parliamentary hearing into the phone-hacking scandal pleaded guilty in court to assault Friday and quipped: "this has been the most humble day of my life."
California Governor Jerry Brown speaks after vetoing the budget passed the day before by state legislators in Los Angeles, California June 16, 2011.

California moves presidential primary to June

California has moved its presidential primary to June, consolidating trips to the poll to save money in an election that most voters in the Democratic leaning state see as a foregone conclusion.
Warren Jeffs

Polygamist leader says is persecuted

Polygamist leader Warren Jeffs interrupted his Texas child sexual assault trial on Friday, shouting that his religious rights were being violated and warning the court it was stomping on "sacred ground".
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Musical ice cream truck delights Chicago grownups

Thousands of adults got to relive the deep summer respite of the ice cream truck jingling through the neighborhood thanks to a shtick by chocolate maker Mars that chilled Chicago's overheated downtown concrete jungle on Thursday and Friday.
People file past Rosa Parks' casket in Detroit

Rosa Parks Described Attempted Rape in an Essay

African-American civil rights activist Rosa Parks wrote in an essay that she was nearly raped in 1931 by a white neighbor who employed as a housekeeper. The essay was written many years after the incident and is one of the Parks' personal, written by her own hand, at Guernsey's Auctioneers.
Kate Middleton and Prince William

Kate Middleton Double-Take: The Duchess Really Likes Her Green Diane von Furstenberg Dress [PICTURES]

...and so do we!Kate Middleton - who had made a point of avoiding extravagant wardrobe displays- wore a silk green Diane von Furstenberg dress to a cocktail reception on Friday, less than three weeks after she was photographed to within in inch of her life wearing the same dress in Los Angeles.The Duchess of Cambridge joined husband Prince William at a pre-wedding cocktail reception for his cousin Zara Phillips, who will marry rugby player rugby player Mike Tindall who marry each other o...
Tronvik and Kobilica lead the funeral ceremony of Rashid at Nesodden church near Oslo

Norway mourns, buries dead, a week after massacre

Norwegians united in mourning on Friday as the first funerals were held a week after anti-Islam zealot Anders Behring Breivik massacred at least 76 people in attacks that traumatized the nation.
People file past Rosa Parks' casket in Detroit

Rosa Parks Revealed Rape Attempt in an Essay: Samples

Rosa Parks wrote in an essay that she was nearly raped in 1931 by a white neighbor who employed as a housekeeper. The essay was written many years after the incident and is one of the Parks' personal, written by her own hand, at Guernsey's Auctioneers.
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New Found Cuban Plant Attracts Bats Via Echo Beacon

A newly found Cuban rainforest plant named Marcgravia evenia has evolved a special concave, spherically shaped leaf to reflect back the audible ultrasound waves that was sent out by bats and attract them for bat pollination.
Ame Deal Died After Being Locked into a Box

Phoenix Girl who Died Inside Locked Box Was Habitually Abused: Police

Phoenix police said Thursday they believed that a 10-year-old girl died after she was locked inside of a box as punishment for stealing a Popsicle. Four people were arrested Wednesday night on suspicion of first-degree murder after Samantha and John Allen, both 23, confessed to locking the child into a storage container, police said.
"ManBearPig" an imaginary creature which parodies Global Warming.

Global Warming Doomsters' Theories Wrong, Says NASA Study

Global warming proponents can catch up on the sleep they lost worrying about the planet getting hotter with each passing day. A NASA study which analyzes satellite data from the years 2000 through 2011, published in the peer-reviewed science journal Remote Sensing, reports that Earth's atmosphere is allowing far more heat to be released into space than global warming proponents' computer models have predicted.

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