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With Condoms, Tea Bags, Flip Flops, and More, London’s Science Museum Celebrates the “Genius of Everyday Things”
11/22/2011

by Bonnie Alter Let’s hear it for the little things. London’s Science Museum is celebrating the “genius of everyday things.” Like…

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An International Music Festival in a Kenyan Slum Seeks to Protect Indigenous Tribes
11/22/2011

by 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
11/22/2011

by Rachel Cernansky This may look familiar to anyone who remembers the Plastiki, the plastic bottle boat that sailed an 8,000-mile…

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Old Turkish movies to become HD quality
11/22/2011

ISTANBUL – Anatolia News Agency A scene from Salako (The Idiot) an old Turkish movie, which will become an HD quality…

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Music label presents charity concert
11/22/2011

Three 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
11/22/2011

ISTANBUL- Hürriyet Daily News Sotheby’s Geneva is preparing to sell a brooch and a pair of earrings dating from the mid-19th…

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Bodrum Underwater Archaeology Museum breaks tourist record
11/22/2011

BODRUM – Doğan News Agency (DHA) The Underwater Archaeology Museum, one of the most popular venues for tourists visiting the Aegean…

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Never-seen Anatolia photos in a new book
11/22/2011

ANKARA – Anatolia News Agency The Ottoman Empire historian Heath W. Lowry has released the book 25 years after the journalist…

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Istanbul prepares to host Duke Ellington Orchestra
11/22/2011

ISTANBUL – Hürriyet Daily News Istanbul is set to host two concerts by one of the greatest orchestras, the Duke Ellington…

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Ringo Starr Designs Timberland Earthkeepers Boot to Benefit WaterAid
11/22/2011

by 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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