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	<description>A little refreshing randomness from around the globe</description>
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		<title>GLACIER SURFING</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Surf at Your own Risk  

Far from the beaches of Hawaii, big wave surfers McNamara and Mamala were the first surfers to ride an Alaskan Glacier Tsunami. Waves sheer ice faces of over 400 feet calved away from Child’s Glacier, crashing into the waters below and setting off left- and right-breaking waves that peel across a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bizarre Headless Chicken Festival</title>
		<description><![CDATA[   On Sept. 10th 1945, a chicken in Fruita, Colorado, intended for dinner was beheaded. Not so bizarre, except this bird lived for 18 months, and ran around &#8220;like a chicken with his head cut off&#8221;. Forever known in memoriam as&#8221; Mike The Headless Wonder Chicken&#8220;. A festival now marks his bizarre existence. Featuring an inspiring 5k, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Baby-Jumping Colacho Festival</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jump Those Babies!Since 1620 Castrillo de Murcia has celebrated Corpus Christi with a bizarre event that sees grown men dressed as the Devil leaping over helpless babies, an act that is known as El Colacho.The Catholic festival of Corpus Christi is celebrated all over Spain with processions, mystery plays and a wide variety of popular celebrations, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Middle East Ice Bar</title>
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111 degrees outside, 21degrees inside.
 
The $3 million Chillout ice lounge in Dubai, where nearly everything is sculpted out of ice. 
Chillout is the Middle East&#8217;s first ice lounge and the latest venture in this desert Gulf emirate that has been transformed by a mania for the biggest, first or most outlandish.Gulf men in traditional [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Uncontacted tribe photographed near Brazil-Peru border</title>
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Natives target the photographers  flying overhead, with their bows and arrows. Acre State, Brazil- Images from Survival International Indian&#8217;s of the Envira, who have never before had any contact with the outside world, photographed during an overflight in May 2008, as they react to the over flight at their camp in the Terra Indigena Kampa e [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rice Field Art</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rice field art in the country of the rising sun. Each year these guys make new images on their field by planting rice in different patterns making various images. They use different sorts of rice for color. The result is amazing as you can see. It’s a pity they only last as long as it’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bizarre High Voltage Installations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[  Abandoned  Russian artifacts and installations from bizarre military/scientific research, strangely futuristic forms left to rust and decay - to be found by a curious photographer.     &#8220;Master&#8221; stumbled upon this installation close to Russian city of Istra (50 km from Moscow) quite by chance, and these mysterious shots were percolating for a while around the web, until [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Strange Gravestones</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 
Live strange, die strange, and leave a strange gravestone. We have explanations for some of these weird stones, but for others we do not. Educated guesses and pure speculation as to their origin are welcome.
The Clothespin Grave, Middlesex, VT 
Created for the owner of a local clothespin factory. 
 
 
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		<title>A Prehistoric Creature in a Russian Ditch</title>
		<description><![CDATA[http://englishrussia.com/?p=1633

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		<title>Hip-Hop Chess Federation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s where the &#8216;four-knights opening&#8217; could inspire a rap song.

The Hip-Hop Chess Federation holds tournaments that combine chess, poetry, and martial arts. Founded by a lecturer and a visual artist, its last tournament in October was frequented by multiple founders of the Wu-Tang Clan, members of Hieroglyphics and Living Legends Crew, and black-belt Ralek Gracie. [...]]]></description>
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