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Rancho Obi-Wan in Sonoma County, California
Collecting Star Wars memorabilia is its own specific hobby, and there is no one with so fervent a passion for it than Steve Sansweet, owner and curator of California's Rancho Obi-Wan, which is the...
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Glade of Fairy Tales in Yalta, Ukraine
Located in the Ukrainian resort city of Yalta, the Glade of Fairy Tales is an open air museum full of hand-carved totems inspired by traditional folktales and stories, well living up to its whimsical...
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Cavemen Inherited Their Clubs From 16th Century European Wildmen
A caveman at a German theme park (Photo: Martin Lewison/Flickr)Like Cupid has a bow, like ninjas have nunchucks, cavemen have clubs.Back in the 18th century, Voltaire explained that early men had only...
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Extreme Bagpiping Situations, From Antarctica to the Beaches of D-Day
Members of the 7th Seaforth Highlanders, 15th (Scottish) Division during Operation Epsom on June 26, 1944. (Photo: Laing (Sgt)/Imperial War Museums)In early November, NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren...
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Harvard Shaker Lollipop Graveyard in Harvard, Massachusetts
On the side of a country road, equally sheltered and threatened by towering pines, one will find the "Lollipop Graveyard."Whimsically nicknamed for the shape of its over 300 cast-iron grave markers,...
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People Have Been Claiming To Own The Moon For Over 250 Years
(Photo: Public Domain/Pixabay)Got 20 bucks? You could own a piece of the Moon–or, at any rate, you could own a piece of paper telling you that you own a piece of the Moon. If that's too close to home,...
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FOUND: An Exoplanet to Get Excited About
An artist's image of GJ1132b (Image: Dana Berry)Of the thousands of exoplanets discovered in recent years, GJ1132b is one to get excited about. It is, one astronomer told the Guardian, "arguably the...
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Festival of the Exploding Hammers in San Juan de la Vega, Mexico
Every February for centuries, locals in a small town in Mexico have thrown a bombastic festival unlike any other in the world. The souvenirs from attending can be lifelong – and we're not talking some...
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For Fraggers, Coral Collecting is Serious Business
Burbling tanks of frags for sale glow under blacklights at the Manhattan Reefs Fall Frag Swap. (Photo: Kyle Frischkorn)Early on a Sunday morning in November, a bunch of fraggers from an online forum...
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True friendship can be hard to find. For industrial titans bent on dominating the world, finding someone who understands you is nearly impossible.The friendship that formed between Thomas Edison and...
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Fleeting Wonders: Flock of Birds Foil Soccer Game in Brazil
(Photo: Screenshot)When a fan runs out onto the soccer field, it's annoying. When a fantail (or some other bird) does it, it's cute! And maybe a little annoying.A soccer game in Brazil yesterday had to...
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HMVS Cerberus in Black Rock, Australia
The HMVS Cerberus is a breakwater shipwreck that served as part of the Victorian Naval Forces when Australia was still a British colony and also as part of the Royal Australian Navy until 1924. It now...
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How a South American Soap Opera Created a Turkish Dessert Craze
A tres leches cake. (Photo: Hungry Dudes/flickr) Desserts have a special place on the Turkish table—after all, this is a country whose main cultural export is Turkish Delight (lokum). But it’s not just...
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Moundville Archaeological Site in Moundville, Alabama
Not far from Tuscaloosa, Alabama is a window to another time - the remarkable remnants of a pre-Colombian culture.The massive earthworks of Moundville have stood here for over a thousand years....
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St. Jude's Igloo Cathedral in Iqaluit, Canada
This Anglican cathedral has been called the Cathedral of St. Simon and St. Jude, or more recently, St. Jude's Cathedral, but it doesn't really matter what saint it belongs to, as most people just call...
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Crook Point Bascule Bridge in Providence, Rhode Island
From Providence to East Providence, Rhode Island spans a bridge with a Facebook page. The Crook Point Bridge waits like a sentry, quietly watching over the Seekonk River, for someone to lower her...
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Camp No-Be-Bo-Sco in Hardwick , New Jersey
Maybe the most famous summer camp of all time is the deadly Camp Crystal Lake, the preferred hunting grounds of Friday the 13th's Jason Voorhees (and yes, his mother). The very first camp to stand in...
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Bristol Basin in New York, New York
Walk a little too far down Manhattan's East 25th street and you will find yourself standing on English soil.No, not something created by treaty like an embassy or consulate, but rather, actual English...
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Lower Trenton Bridge in Morrisville, New Jersey
The Lower Trenton Bridge, full name: Lower Trenton Toll Supported Bridge, is a rather mundane bridge save for the huge, and hugely catty-sounding slogan on its side. More commonly known as the "Trenton...
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