The Atlas Of True Names

If you have ever wondered how a Country or City got its name, this is an Atlas for you. Called Atlas of True Names, it substitutes place names around the world with names based on their etymological (the history of the origin of the name), roots....

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Bears In Space!

Earlier this week, Two cuddly teddy bears MAT and KMS (named using the first initials of the kids that build their spacesuits), each strapped with a friend, made history by becoming the first stuffed animals to fly to Space....

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Flying Without Ever Leaving The Ground

Amid high fuel prices, lost luggage and tight security, many people are finding it hard to be enthusiastic about air travel. Unless of course you are one of the lucky ones that get to fly in a retired Airbus A300, parked in a small backyard in New Delhi's Dwarka neighborhood....

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An Edible Mona Lisa?

It took 10,000 pieces of pasta, countless hours of painstaking gluing and a huge backache - but the end result looked good enough to eat and almost as good as the original Mona Lisa, that hangs in Musee de Louvre in Paris, France....

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A Palatial Doghouse

While we have heard of pampered pooches, this definitely has to be a first - A surgeon in England has drawn up plans to build a custom home for her two Great Danes, in an exclusive estate, which houses million dollar homes....

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'Pumpkin' And 'Pecan' Head To Disneyland

On a day when most of his cohorts ended up on the dinner table, Pumpkin a Tom Turkey, pardoned by President Bush in an elaborate ceremony on Wednesday, strutted his feathers as Grand Marshal, in a live televised Thanksgiving Parade at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim....

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Look Who Just Turned 80!

On Tuesday November 18, 2008, the eternally youthful-looking Mickey Mouse turned 80! The ever-smiling rodent celebrated his birthday quietly surrounded by his friends, family and of course thousands of fans, both young and old....

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Madagascar's Gloria To The Rescue

The staff at Heythrip Zoological Gardens in Oxfordshire had a slight problem. Chico, their resident pygmy hippo was refusing to eat, and his nicely rounded figure was starting to look - well a little less rounded and that was not good!...

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Walking With Dinosaurs - The Live Experience

Walking With Dinosaurs - The Live Experience is an amazing 90-minute stage show depicting life-size prehistoric reptiles that roar and move like the real thing. The show, which began in Australia, is now coming to the end of a two-year stint in North America, where it has been playing to packed audiences....

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All Aboard!

Passengers on this train have taken the term All Aboard, to a whole new level - And they are not doing it for a great photo opportunity either. All of them are actually going to hang on to their dear lives while the train chugs along and takes them to their destination, a few hundred miles away....

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Video Of The Week

This Japanese Assistant Robot or AR as it is affectionately called, will not only do your laundry and clean your floors, but also, serve you breakfast in bed!...

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Ray Villafane's Ghoulish Pumpkins

Ray Villafane has an extremely cool daytime job. He is a toy sculptor, who creates life-like figures of Spiderman, Ironman, Incredible Hulk and other cool characters. However, during Halloween he turns his attention to something even cooler - carving pumpkins - and we are not talking ordinary Jack-O-Lanterns, but real scary lifelike 3-D creations that take the art to a whole new level....

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High School Musical 3 - Finally At A Theatre Near You

For the last two years, we have all smiled, sung and danced with Troy, Gabriella, Sharpay, Ryan, Chad, Taylor and the rest of the gang as they journeyed through their high school years. Now comes the Grande Finale. As they get ready to graduate, Disney has spared no expense with its 3rd, but by no means final, High School Musical 3 - The Senior Year, extravaganza....

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What Are You Going To Be For Halloween?

With less than ten days left before Halloween, we are sure most of you already know what you are going to dress up as. For those of you who still haven't even thought about it or are still on the fence, here are a few ideas for costumes that can be made with a little help from mum or dad....

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