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Life imitates SF
- Life predates Waterworld: Oil Rocks, the Soviet city built in the 1950s in the middle of the Caspian Sea. At the moment this seems to be the only webpage on the internet that has a significant number of photos of it. (Edit: Window to Baku here, Artificial Owl here and a Wiki paragraph here).
- Another abandoned Russian town, this one invaded by ( Read more... )
- Life predates Waterworld: Oil Rocks, the Soviet city built in the 1950s in the middle of the Caspian Sea. At the moment this seems to be the only webpage on the internet that has a significant number of photos of it. (Edit: Window to Baku here, Artificial Owl here and a Wiki paragraph here).
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George Orwell's birthplace in India to be turned into a museum. This is not exactly news; the house was only identified in 2003, then benefited from a bit of renovation in 2005 when the local Rotary Club also put up a plaque outside the house, and plans for a museum have been around since then. The site Orwell Today probably has the best collection ( Read more... ) -
Travel broadens the mind, and all that
Children buried neck-deep in holy mud to cure them of disabilities. Note the absence of a sense of outrage. This is India ( Read more... )
