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Assortment of small stupas around the big stupa at Boudhanath.84

Swayambhunath, Mountaintop Buddhist temple in Kathmandu

The Swayambhunath Temple in Kathmandu, Nepal, is way up on a hill or rather a small mountain, and when the travel agent and I reached the top of the steps, guards in uniforms stood under a dark red archway...

2 comments    travel architecture buddhism
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Post-Apocalyptic TV Series

The Post-Apocalyptic landscape is one of the staples of blockbuster sci-fi adventure films and, surprisingly frequently, television series. I was going to cover both films and tv in this hub, but by the...

17 comments    entertainment movies television
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Misconceptions about AIDS

1 Corinthians 6:18 says, "Flee from sexual immorality.  All other sins a man commits are outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body." It was the early eighties, that AIDS (Auto...

13 comments    health education children
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Some Important Mammal and Bird Species of Amazon Rainforests

Some Important Mammals of Amazon Rainforests There are about 300 species of mammals found in Amazon region. Unlike other animals found in Africa and India animals are comparably smaller in size. All of the...

18 comments    amazon birds jaguar
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An Honest Report on Bali Zoo

Bali zoo http://bali-zoo.com is yet another Bali animal collection which prices its gate in US dollars. Here it was $20 or 225,000 Indonesian Rupiah. This is no small amount and I half expected to be ripped...

9 comments    zoo bali report
This is an artistic rendition of a Nubian priestess and what I imagine Iras,Cleopatra's maid of Nubian descent might have looked like. She also served as a priestess before Cleopatra took her on. 70

The Life and Times of Cleopatra: Part Two

Well, you've read Scroll One and saw what her life was like as a child and learned about the defining moments of maturity including the birth of her love for Caesar.  And now you're ready to read Scroll Two,...

0 comments    books literature rome
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The Nine Billion Names of God

This particular story was written, in a way, by two science fiction authors at two different times, decades apart. Each has his own anthology of stories built around this masterpiece that concerns the Names of God and a UNIVAC-like computing machine...

13 comments    reviews books science
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Baby Brine Shrimps -hatching methods

Brine Shrimps are probably the favorite food used by breeders throughout the world. Adults used to condition fish to breeding state, and their larvae, known as Nauplii, are used as fry food for a fast and...

6 comments    aquarium bbs fish fry
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US History: The Great Depression

Much occurred in US History before and during the Great Depression. 4,000,000 people were left wandering the country, still looking for work in 1939. The New Deal did bring some relief.

2 comments    celebrities economy fbi
King Cobra. Snakes are common in Thailand, be wary of any grassed areas or undergrowth 87

Thailand: Dangerous Animals

Poisonous snakes, giant centipedes, jellyfish, scorpions and tarantulas- read about them, study the pictures and avoid them!

23 comments    health safety thailand
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