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Moscow Apple Museum Planned As Steve Jobs Tribute

Moscow Apple Museum Planned As Steve Jobs Tribute

Andrei Antonov, who has been collecting rare Apple memorabilia for the last three decades, is now publicly floating the idea of creating an Apple Museum in Moscow. The Moscow printer’s collection of rare Apple computer products may become a public tribute to Steve Jobs’ life work and the inventiveness of the corporation he founded with [...]

October 9, 2011 | 0 Comments More
40th Anniversary Of Disney World

40th Anniversary Of Disney World

Work on the “Florida Project,” as Disney World was called in its early stages, began in a swampy Central Florida after Walt Disney’s death in 1966. Three weeks prior to the official opening, 100,000 Central Florida locals participated in trial runs. Come October 1, 22 park attractions were ready to go and 5,000 cast members [...]

October 1, 2011 | 0 Comments More
International Balloon Fiesta Starts On October 1

International Balloon Fiesta Starts On October 1

The 40th annual Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta lifts off October 1, with more than 600 balloons headed to the New Mexico skies for the more-than-week-long event. It’s the world’s largest hot air balloon rally. With more than 100,000 people expected to attend, the crowds start lining up to see balloons and chat with pilots as early [...]

October 1, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Death Festival Of Cambodia

Death Festival Of Cambodia

Tuesday marked the end of the Festival of Death in Cambodia, a 15-day celebration that culminated in water buffalo riding, horse racing and traditional Khmer wrestling in Vihear Suor village about 30 miles from the capital city of Phnom Penh. Thousands of Cambodians attend the Pchum Ben festival in Vihear Suor every year, as others [...]

September 28, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Hitching 5,000 Miles Across The US

Hitching 5,000 Miles Across The US

Benjamin Jenks was burnt out on his job and looking for an adventure to recharge. After reading a book by Steven Newman — the first person to walk solo around the world — and thinking back on his limited experiences with hitchhiking, Jenks set off on a journey from Venice, Calif. to Portland, Maine. On [...]

September 24, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Portraits Of Shanghai’s Burdened Bikers

Portraits Of Shanghai’s Burdened Bikers

French photographer Alain Delorme’s series Totems features the acrobatic stacking feats of Shanghai’s bikers. Delorme explains that the “cardboard and chairs seem to be the new totems of a society in transformation, both the world’s factory and new Eldorado of the market economy.” The series of photographs are not presented in a documentary style. Instead, Delorme plays [...]

September 24, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Man Climbs To Top Of Russian Skyscraper

Man Climbs To Top Of Russian Skyscraper

Here’s one that will make your stomach churn. A man has uploaded a video of himself climbing to the top of the Red Gates Administrative Building in Moscow, Russia. The man — who does not appear to be wearing any safety equipment — exits a hatch on the roof and makes his way to the top [...]

September 24, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Anderson To Gerard: ‘Carpe Peem’

Anderson To Gerard: ‘Carpe Peem’

Just over a month after French actor Gerard Depardieu relieved himself on an airplane , causing quite the international sensation, Anderson Cooper had him on his new talk show to discuss the infamous incident. Cooper previously launched into a giggle fit on his show, Anderson 360, when discussing the matter in August. The line that set him [...]

September 21, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Beatles’ 15-Minute Layover In Arkansas Memorialized

Beatles’ 15-Minute Layover In Arkansas Memorialized

For 15 minutes 47 years ago, Walnut Ridge, Arkansas was the red-hot center of the universe: The Beatles were in town. Well, they weren’t in town exactly: They were standing on the tarmac at the regional airport during a stopover on their way to a dude ranch in Missouri and the locals were, at first, [...]

September 21, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Cologne’s Love Locks Rival Those In Venice

Cologne’s Love Locks Rival Those In Venice

It’s a truth universally acknowledged that Venice is one of the most romantic cities on Earth. And nothing says never-ending love like the famous locks that adorn the Ponte del Accademia and the Rialto bridges. Recently, however, the locks are facing a crackdown since the rust from the locks are starting to damage the bridge’s stone. [...]

September 19, 2011 | 0 Comments More
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