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U.K. Loves Reagan. G.W. Bush…Not So Much
Sunday, August 7th, 2011WorldTourWatch: A statue of Ronald Reagan was unveiled in London, England’s Grosvenor Square on July 4th.
The Urge To Burj
Tuesday, October 13th, 2009Burj Dubai, the world’s tallest building, is set to open to the public on December 2, 2009. This titan of towers is the centerpiece of a 20 billion dollar development project that is bizarrely ambitious and ostentatious even by Dubai standards. Other record-setting features of this enormous undertaking include Dubai Mall (“the world’s largest shopping [...]
Wax Hitlers Wreak International Havoc
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008The Western world isn’t ready for another Adolf Hitler — even one immobilized in wax. July 5th, on the first day at a new Madame Tussauds museum in Berlin, Germany, a man savagely decapitated a controversial wax figure of Hitler. The man was arrested, and the statue and head were carted off from public view. [...]
Souvenir: Argentine Corkscrew
Monday, April 14th, 2008Proof of the continuing and universal appeal of lusty gag souvenirs: We received this photo taken last week of a gift shop window in Bariloche, Argentina, a tourist mecca in the heart of the Patagonia region filled with chocolate shops and hippies. The figure on the left bears an uncanny resemblance to the cactus cowboy [...]
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