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Another monolith - this time a huge wooden penis statue in Germany - has vanished
As the police investigated how the structure on the Grünten mountain disappeared over the weekend, …
Haven Orecchio-Egresitz  Â
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Trump wanted to build a family mausoleum on his golf course complete with 'imposing obelisks.' After officials called the plans 'overwhelming and garish,' his ex-wife was laid to rest in a modest grave instead.
In 2007, Donald Trump filed plans to build a 19-foot-high stone mausoleum with four obelisks on his…
Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert  Â
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The US Army is steeling itself for a surge in tourists at the Trinity test site — the site of the first-ever nuclear bomb test — because of 'Oppenheimer'
The US holds biannual open houses to the Trinity test site, and warned that tourists at the next op…
Matthew Loh  Â
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Argentina declares public holiday to celebrate World Cup triumph
Argentina beat France in the World Cup final in Qatar on Sunday to bag its third title and first si…
Barnaby Lane  Â
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New Mexico natives mark Indigenous Peoples' Day by toppling a monument to colonialism
Two people chained themselves to an obelisk in Santa Fe Plaza to demand the immediate removal of a …
Charles Davis  Â
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8 jaw-dropping photos of Naval Academy freshmen climbing a monument covered with 50 pounds of grease
Scaling it and replacing the sailor hat with a midshipmen's officer-like hat would be pretty straig…
Sam Fellman  Â
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Half-built walls and ruined mountains: Pictures and video show the remains of Trump's incomplete border wall
Hastily carved access roads, rubble, and lone segments of wall are strewn through the landscape whe…
Mia Jankowicz  Â
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New Orleans mayor calls on city residents to let go of a "false narrative of history" by glorifying Confederate past
Statues of Robert E. Lee, P.G.T. Beauregard, Jefferson Davis, and an obelisk honoring the Battle of…
Veronika Bondarenko  Â
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UK DEFENCE SECRETARY: Jeremy Corbyn is a bigger threat to the Falkland Islands than Argentina
Britain's Defence Secretary Michael Fallon and Chief of the Defence Staff, Nick Houghton (L) arrive…
Adam Payne,Adam Payne  Â
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Apple's Steve Jobs Memorial Statue Has Been Unveiled, And It's Pretty Creepy
The model will be transported to Apple headquarters in Cupertino, Calif, and if approved, Radenovic…
Madeline Stone  Â
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Antarctica is melting faster than anyone thought, and we're not ready for the sea level rise that's coming
We've already baked a certain amount of sea level rise into the planet's system. Global temperature…
Kevin Loria  Â
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A southern mayor from a deep-red state could be Democrats' answer to a big problem against Trump
Landrieu credits Wynton Marsalis, the Pulitzer Prize-winning jazz musician and an old friend, with …
Eliza Relman  Â
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Latin American politics are also lurching to the right
"Perhaps the simplest of benign explanations for the slowdown in job growth is the maturity of the …
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40 years ago, Led Zeppelin released its most difficult album - and it's still hard to listen to
For me, "Presence" has always been the Zep record that both looked like an eighties album, with its…
Matthew DeBord  Â
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The amazing story of the team of assassins who sought to avenge the Armenian genocide
Just ahead of him on the street was Soghomon Tehlirian, a gaunt 25-year-old Armenian who had lost 8…
Marcus Baram  Â
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Apple's smart photo app will be way behind Google's - here's why
Graph, Graphs, Abacus, Abacuses, Abalone, Abalones, Ear Shell, Ear Shells, Accordion, Accordions, P…