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	<title>Michael John Grist &#187; Churches / Shrines</title>
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		<title>Stonehenge&#8217;s little brother: Carhenge</title>
		<link>http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/2010/06/archaeo-exploratory-of-the-fabled-carhenge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jun 2010 05:26:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Carhenge is a replica of the 4,500 year old Stonehenge ruin in England. It was built by Jim Reinders in Nebraska, USA, using 38 vintage automobiles spray-painted gray and posed after the original sarsens, lintels, and altar stones of Stonehenge....]]></description>
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		<title>The lava-engulfed ruins of Paricutin cathedral</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 01:44:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The sky is black with ash-fall. People are standing in the streets, looking up into the fog. They hold out their hands, and little mounds of grainy black stone gather. Down the clay-walled guinnels of the town you hear the...]]></description>
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		<title>Exploring an Abandoned Japanese Castle-Shrine</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:13:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Japan is riddled with shrines, both in cities and out in the countryside, huddled in the basin of wintry valleys or perched precariously on top of mountains- often at points of raw natural beauty and power. From time to time...]]></description>
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		<title>Faded glory of the Heian wedding hall</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 04:59:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ruined Heian Wedding Hall in Ibaraki prefecture is a far cry from the Akeno Gekijo Strip Club that preceded it. Here was a wholly wholesome building, built for the profession and binding of love&#8217;s vows, decorated in the most...]]></description>
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		<title>Ashiodozan 1. Shrine and Apartments</title>
		<link>http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/2009/01/ashiodozan-mining-town-haikyo-2-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 2009 08:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Life in Ashio would never have been easy, and certainly not at the peak of production around 1910 when 39,000 people called it home. Crammed into a narrow river valley, blasted by freezing winter winds while living in uninsulated plywood...]]></description>
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		<title>Japan&#8217;s abandoned Russian Village theme park</title>
		<link>http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/2008/09/russian-village-haikyo-niigata/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 11:39:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Japan&#8217;s Russian Village Theme Park sprawls empty and forlorn atop a small hill set back from the main road, shrouded by a thick raft of cedar trees that hide its embarassing failed extravangance from the world. Built 2002 and abandoned...]]></description>
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