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

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  Monday, 26 December 2011 Aimilios Polygenis   A few minutes ago, the members of the Holy Community of the Holy Mountain expressed their overwhelming support for Abbot...

Father Johann Kuehberger saved 4-year-old Adolf Hitler from drowning in the icy waters of River Inn of Passau in 1984

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

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

RoseMarie Terenzio, JFK Jr.’s former assistant, recalls in her upcoming book, “Fairy Tale Interrupted”, how he asked Madonna to pose as Jackie Kennedy for the George magazine cover

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

President Richard Nixon with Bebe Rebozo at Key Biscayne

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

After 36 years since Jimmy Hoffa disappeared, his driver Marvin Elkind has claimed he knows where the former Teamsters boss is buried and how he got there, and all it was revealed a new book, “The Weasel: A Double Life in the Mob”, by Adrian Humphreys

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

The 28th Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival in China, featuring work by some of the best ice sculptors and attracting thousands of visitors from around the world, will be opened on January 5, 2012

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cesaria Evora, the famous Cape Verdean singer died in her native island of Sao Vicente, nearly three months after announcing the end of her career due to health problems

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Barefoot singer Cesaria Evora died Saturday in a hospital in Cape Verde, said Minister of Culture of Cape Verde, Mario Lucio Sousa. Cesaria Evora, the...

Author, essayist and polemicist Christopher Hitchens, died last night, after a long battle with cancer, at 62

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Author, essayist and polemicist Christopher Hitchens, who waged verbal and occasional physical battle on behalf of causes left and right, died last night, after...

Obama family joined musical stars Justin Bieber, Cee Lo Green, Jennifer Hudson, Victoria Justice and The Band Perry at the 30th annual Christmas In Washington concert

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US President Barack Obama’s family got in the festive spirit by singing with musical stars Justin Bieber, Cee Lo Green, Jennifer Hudson, Victoria Justice...

Artist Ron Piccirillo claims to have cracked a 500-year-old mystery surrounding the Mona Lisa - by spotting a series of zoo animals hidden in the painting

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Artist Ron Piccirillo claims to have cracked a 500-year-old mystery surrounding the Mona Lisa - by spotting a series of zoo animals hidden in...

The new movie, The Girl, which will be screened next year, will show how an infatuated 62-year-old Alfred Hitchcock sexually harassed the 31-year-old blonde starlet, Tippi Hedren, and tried to control every aspect of her life – both on and off screen

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Sienna Miller will be the star of a new drama about film director Alfred Hitchcock’s obsession with Tippi Hedren – star of his classic...

Hungry Hobos, a long-lost Disney cartoon that features Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (a character who was the prototype for Mickey Mouse), has been discovered in a British film archive

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Hungry Hobos, a long-lost Disney cartoon that features Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (a character who was the prototype for Mickey Mouse), has been discovered...

A new film will be released on Friday, entitled simply 11-11-11, predicts that the day will see the opening of a portal in to Hell

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At 11.11.11 on 11.11.11, the time and date will be a perfect same-numbered palindrome, reading the same backwards as forwards, an event which can...

The annual West River Heritage Day Oyster Festival will be host by Captain Salem Avery Museum on Sunday, October 16, in Shady Side, Maryland

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The annual West River Heritage Day Oyster Festival will be host by Captain Salem Avery Museum on Sunday, October 16, in Shady Side, Maryland. Oyster...

Unsound Festival 2011 theme is inspired from Future Shock by Alvin Toffler (1970).

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Unsound Festival 2011, an original week-long avant-garde music event, starts on October 9 in Kraków, Poland.   Unsound Festival started in 2003 as an underground event...

Columbus Day Parade 2011 will begin Monday, October 10, at 11:30 a.m. Eastern Time, lasting until about 3:00 p.m

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The world’s largest celebration of Italian-American culture - New York’s 67th Columbus Day Parade – is on Fifth Avenue. The spirit of exploration, the struggles...

"It's funny, they used to watch movies where they say I can't live without you but for me it's true," said Gene Simmons and got down on one knee.

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Gene Simmons, KISS bassist, married his girlfriend, Shannon Tweed, on October 1 in an evening ceremony held on the Crystal Lawn at the historic...

Warren Hellman and the Wronglers play at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2011.

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The 11th edition of the Golden Child of free music festivals, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2011, has the theme Hazel Dickens: in loving memory.   Hazel Dickens,...

Criticized or praised, Andy Rooney, remains a living legend. The walnut table was made by himself.

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A Few Minutes with Andy Rooney ends its weekly appearances on CBS' 60 Minutes.   On Sunday, October 2, the veteran radio and television writer, Andy Rooney,...

Sly Stone, the funk legend is currently homeless and living in a van.

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Sly Stone, the veteran funk singer is currently homeless, and living in a van in Los Angeles’ rough-and-tumble Crenshaw district, according to a report...

David Garrett played Michael Jackson's Smooth Criminal at George Enescu Festival 2011

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Romanian Youth Orchestra with Christian Mandeal and violin soloist David Garrett performed on September 23, during the last week of one of the biggest...