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		<title>Ruins of the Unmuseum</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 02:18:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Unmuseum (AKA the Museum of Unnatural Mystery) is like an online Ripley&#8217;s Believe It or Not, stuffed full of myth, ruin, and intrepid history ranging from tales of pterosaurs in Texas to mechanical computers built before the birth of...]]></description>
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		<title>Dead Sentinels: 10 Stunning Abandoned Lighthouses</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 02:14:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lighthouses are the sentinels of globalization; for thousands of years they have stood on barren shores the world over and guided the spreading hands of global trade, keeping unknown seafarers and their precious cargoes safe in the night. Now they...]]></description>
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		<title>Abandoned Lighthouses 10. Fish Fluke Point</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 01:44:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Grand Harbor Lighthouse on Fish Fluke Point, Ross Island Canada, was built in 1879, a square wooden tower 32-feet tall with the Keeper&#8217;s dwelling attached. Its fixed-white catoptric light was visible for 11 miles in clear weather. It was...]]></description>
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		<title>Abandoned Lighthouses 9. Ship John Shoal</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 01:36:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Construction of the Ship John Shoal Lighthouse in Delaware Bay took 27 years, from a decision by the US Congress in 1850 that a light was needed, through various incarnations of caisson-foundations, screw-pile roots, 2000 tons of rip-rap, and a...]]></description>
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		<title>Abandoned Lighthouses 8. Aniva Rock</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 01:15:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Aniva lighthouse was built by the Japanese in 1939, on a chunk of rock off the southern coast of Sakhalin, a thin 950 km long island situated just east of Russia, between the sea of Japan and Russia&#8217;s Sea...]]></description>
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		<title>Abandoned Lighthouses 7. Capo d&#8217;Otranto</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 01:13:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Capo d&#8217;Otranto lighthouse was built in 1867, situated at Italy&#8217;s most eastern point, marking the point where the Ionian and Adriatic Seas meet. It was abandoned in the 1970&#8242;s, but restored and reopened to tourists in 2008, where it...]]></description>
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		<title>Abandoned Lighthouses 6. Klein Curacao</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 00:25:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Klein Curacao (&#8216;Little Curacao&#8217;) lighthouse was first built in 1850, on a tiny spit of land 11km off the southeastern tip of Curacao in the Caribbean Sea. It&#8217;s exactly the kind of place that Jack Sparrow would have pranced...]]></description>
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		<title>Abandoned Lighthouses 5. Grand Isaac Cay</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 00:16:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The lighthouse on Great Isaac Cay, a small island in the Bahamas around 20 miles north-east of the Bimini Islands, was built in 1859 to guide trade-ships carrying exports of sun-dried sea salt from Inagua, rum from Nassau, and aragonite...]]></description>
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		<title>Abandoned Lighthouses 4. Mogadishu</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 04:27:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The crumbling Italian lighthouse perched on the edge of Mogadishu&#8217;s Old Harbor was built over a century ago, and abandoned some 20 years ago as trade dried up and the failed state of Somalia descended into a home for extreme...]]></description>
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		<title>Abandoned Lighthouses 3. Tillamook Rock</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 04:18:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Tillamook Rock Light was built in 1881 on a rock off Oregon coast called Tillamook Head. It was born in blood; with its grand opening overshadowed by a nearby shipwreck just days before its guardian gas-light was lit. 16...]]></description>
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