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Boing Boing writes about the Stasi Smell Museum: “The Stasi — East German secret police — kept an enormous museum of 'smell samples' of German citizens, kept in case they ever needed to give hunting dogs the scent of a fugitive criminal.”
Olechko writes about Tavriyski Igry music festival, the Pyrogiv open-air folk museum, and the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra.
Belgrade 2.0 writes about the Red Hot Chili Peppers' concert in the town of Indjija - and posts pictures, and reviews the bloggers' responses.
Anegdote tells an old story about a Communist Party council in a remote Montenegrin village.
Instead of a post on the battle of Kosovo, De Rebus Antiquis Et Novis writes about St. Basil's Cathedral in Moscow - and posts a photo of a graffiti in Samara, which says in Serbian: “Serbs and Russians are brothers forever. Greece, Serbia, Russia.”
I guess it has to do with humanizing a figure we prefer to see as super-natural. The almost funny thing...
people of maldives..you have to stop this civil war. its sad to see it in this state of affairs....
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I do not support capital punishment, in this instance there have no other alternative. What these killers have done is...