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  • New Yorkers are polite?

    06/21/2006 2:18:53 PM PDT · by GSlob · 70 replies · 839+ views
    Yahoo/Readers Digst ^ | Wed Jun 21 | Pat Milton
    New Yorkers are polite? NEW YORK - New Yorkers are a polite bunch. No, really, they are. So says Reader's Digest...
  • New Colossus of Rhodes will keep watch on drunken Britons

    02/27/2005 1:47:12 PM PST · by wagglebee · 14 replies · 1,763+ views
    UK Telegraph ^ | 2/27/05 | Harry de Quetteville
    More than two millennia after it was toppled by an earthquake, the Colossus of Rhodes - one of the seven wonders of the ancient world - is to rise again. Instead of standing astride the venerable port of Rhodes town, however, the 100ft bronze figure will tower over the island's downmarket resort of Faliraki, infamous for the drunken antics of thousands of British tourists who go there every year. Faliraki, about five miles south of Rhodes town, boasts a strip of bars and clubs a third of a mile long, where cut-price alcohol lures hordes of tourists on drinking binges...
  • Road builders plunder Great Wall

    02/10/2005 4:09:28 PM PST · by wagglebee · 14 replies · 855+ views
    News.com.au ^ | 2/10/05 | AFP
    ROAD builders demolished a large section of China's World Heritage-listed Great Wall last month in an indication of the perilous state of one of the world's best known landmarks, state media said today. Almost 100m of the wall in northern Ningxia autonomous region was levelled in two overnight raids by construction workers who used the material to pave a road, the Ningxia Daily said. The destroyed area near Zhongwei city was constructed during the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) in an region known as "the Great Wall Museum" because of the profusion of rammed earth sections of the wall. Less than 2500km...