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With Condoms, Tea Bags, Flip Flops, and More, London’s Science Museum Celebrates the “Genius of Everyday Things”
11/22/2011by Bonnie Alter Let’s hear it for the little things. London’s Science Museum is celebrating the “genius of everyday things.” Like…
Read MoreAn International Music Festival in a Kenyan Slum Seeks to Protect Indigenous Tribes
11/22/2011by Sami Grover From controversial forest clearings for a Brazilian dam to the massive displacement of people by a Chinese hydroelectric…
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Kenya’s Plastiki? Boat Made From Plastic Bottles & Old Flip Flops
11/22/2011by Rachel Cernansky This may look familiar to anyone who remembers the Plastiki, the plastic bottle boat that sailed an 8,000-mile…
Read MoreOld Turkish movies to become HD quality
11/22/2011ISTANBUL – Anatolia News Agency A scene from Salako (The Idiot) an old Turkish movie, which will become an HD quality…
Read MoreMusic label presents charity concert
11/22/2011Three rock bands working under Turkey’s leading independent record label Rakun are taking the stage at Ghetto tonight for a fund-raising…
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Sotheby’s to sell Ottoman Treasures
11/22/2011ISTANBUL- Hürriyet Daily News Sotheby’s Geneva is preparing to sell a brooch and a pair of earrings dating from the mid-19th…
Read MoreBodrum Underwater Archaeology Museum breaks tourist record
11/22/2011BODRUM – Doğan News Agency (DHA) The Underwater Archaeology Museum, one of the most popular venues for tourists visiting the Aegean…
Read MoreNever-seen Anatolia photos in a new book
11/22/2011ANKARA – Anatolia News Agency The Ottoman Empire historian Heath W. Lowry has released the book 25 years after the journalist…
Read MoreIstanbul prepares to host Duke Ellington Orchestra
11/22/2011ISTANBUL – Hürriyet Daily News Istanbul is set to host two concerts by one of the greatest orchestras, the Duke Ellington…
Read MoreRingo Starr Designs Timberland Earthkeepers Boot to Benefit WaterAid
11/22/2011by Jasmin Malik Chua Timberland is getting a little help from its friends—ex-Beatle Ringo Starr, to be precise. The shoemaker has…
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