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		<title>Exploring Japan&#8217;s deserted Mount Rushmore</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 09:46:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Disneyland has the grand pink Sleeping Beauty castle. The wizarding world of Harry Potter has Hogwarts. Japan&#8217;s abandoned Western Village theme park has a 1/3rd scale replica of Mount Rushmore. Washington, Jefferson, Roosevelt, Lincoln- Japan Outside Mount Rushmore As grand-central-structures-that-pull-their-thematic-landscapes-together...]]></description>
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		<title>One-armed Ultraman</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2011 05:24:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ultraman is a Japanese icon, guardian of Tokyo against all kinds of horrible invaders since 1966. His branding can be found everywhere, from plastic bento lunchboxes to bikes, cell-phone straps, and kids&#8217; ride. My buddy Scott was out walking the...]]></description>
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		<title>The aftermath of Oradour&#8217;s War</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jun 2010 04:47:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oradour-sur-Glane is a village in west-central France. The original village was destroyed on 10 June 1944, when 642 of its inhabitants, including women and children, were massacred by a German Waffen-SS company. A new village was built after the war...]]></description>
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		<title>Hiroshima A-bomb dome</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 00:37:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At 8:15 on August 6 1945 the first nuclear bomb in the history of warfare detonated over Hiroshima, obliterating the city within a 1.5 mile radius and killing outright some 80,000 people, with around another 70,000 dying of radiation and...]]></description>
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		<title>Ruins of the Statue of Liberty</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 02:13:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Statue of Liberty is an icon, a beacon-fire at America`s shore calling out to all and sundry- `come on in, there`s plenty of room!` To destroy her is to denounce the very idea of America, to throw that generosity...]]></description>
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		<title>7 Bizarre Monuments of Saddam&#8217;s Iraq</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Iraq lost the war to Coalition Forces back in 2003 the iconic image was one of American soldiers tearing down a great bronze statue of Saddam Hussein in Firdos Square. Soon after giant busts of his head were removed...]]></description>
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		<title>The exploded bust of Ferdinand Marcos</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 21:33:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the height of his power in the 1970&#8242;s former president/dictator of the Philippines Ferdinand E. Marcos commissioned the construction of a 99-foot concrete bust in own image, situated on a cliff overlooking the South China Sea around 130 km...]]></description>
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