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Belgian ritual and Chinese puppetry join UN-backed list of intangible heritage

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Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity comes into being in Istanbul, Turkey.

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UNESCO committee adds 12 elements to intangible heritage list

Twelve elements, ranging from rice planting rituals in Japan to Mexico''s mariachi music to a horseback-riding tradition in France, were today added to the United Nations-backed list of the world''s outstanding examples of intangible heritage.

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Second Mayan reference to 2012 revealed

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DJIBOUTI: Migrants risk all for "better life"

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Some of the migrants gathered on Obock’s pier have been stranded for over a month with no money to continue or return home

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Addressing The Shortage Of Women In Silicon Valley

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Women attend a talk on Wednesday at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing in Portland, Ore. The conference offers mentoring and recruiting for women in technology fields.

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Who's The Spookiest Super-Villain? Take The Poll Of Perfidiousness

All Hallows Eve is fast upon us, bringing with it fun-sized eating binges, sullen teens who can't be bothered to slap together a costume trying to cadge some free Kit Kats, and those fake spider webs that, if we're honest, really just make your front porch look like somebody unraveled a sweat sock all over it.

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Pro Pitchers' Dirty Secret Rubbed On Every Ball

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Lena Blackburne Baseball is the only baseball rubbing mud company that serves the pro leagues. Where does the mud come from? That's a secret.

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Australia’s Economic Blowout Fails To Cut Brazilian Blowouts

Australian women are still willing to spend on their hair treatments, even if many sectors of the economy are having an extremely bad hair day, according to the Keratin Treatment Salon.

According to leading Sydney-based hair stylist Marc Azzi of the Marc Azzi Hair Salon, Brazilian Blowout Keratin treatments are now the most popular among Australian women, thanks to their promotion by Hollywood movie stars such as Nicole Kidman and Jennifer Lopez.

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China began cultivating millet 10,000 years ago

Evidence of glutinous millet's cultivation has been found in the northern province of Hebei that could date back to 10,000 years, said Chinese archaeologists Sunday.

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Hard Choices: Do Libraries Really Destroy Books?

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Yesterday, an Australian blogger named S Peter Davis wrote a piece for Cracked (the surprisingly interesting online offshoot of the old comedy print magazine) called "6 Reasons We're In Another 'Book-Burning' Period In History."