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Massive Statue of King Tut’s Grandfather Unearthed
Good news from Egypt: A 13-meter-long carving of Amenhotep III, granddaddy of the more famous Tutankhamun, has resurfaced. A team of archeologists from Egypt, which presumably kept working amidst the...
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Catfight: Man Plans to Battle Lion in an Effort to Boost Egypt’s Tourist...
Forget bullfighting. In the animal entertainment sector, lion fighting is the hot new commodity. At least according to 25-year-old Egyptian al-Sayed al-Essawy, who plans to fight a full-grown African...
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Arab Spring, NBA Lockout Top Twitter’s 2011 Standout Stories
The biggest events of 2011 — the Arab Spring, Occupy Wall Street, the Japanese earthquake and tsunami — were tremendous on their own. But the reverberations of the news on Facebook, Twitter and the...
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#Overused: The Most Popular Twitter Hashtags of 2011
Twitter has revealed its most-used hashtags of 2011, with #Egypt topping the list. Other events, both global and cultural, made waves on the social network. Charlie Sheen’s #Tigerblood came in second,...
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Egyptian Lawmaker Resigns After Nose-Job Scandal
A conservative Egyptian lawmaker resigned from parliament Monday after his claims that he'd been brutally beaten turned out to be fabrications to cover up his recent nose job.
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Egyptian Immigrant Wants to be Reclassified as Black
Anyone who’s ever filled out a census document or taken the SATs is familiar with that odd moment when you have to bubble in your racial classification. For many, the choices are confusing, limiting,...
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Did King Tutankhamen Die From Epilepsy?
Ever since King Tut’s lavish tomb was opened in 1924, when people weren’t muttering about the curse supposedly placed on it they were trying to divine what killed the young Egyptian king. Now, a...
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WATCH: Egyptian Students Arrested over ‘Harlem Shake’ Video
Four Egyptian pharmaceutical students who filmed their own semi-nude version of the viral craze video “Harlem Shake” have been arrested for violating the nation’s strict indecency laws. The group...
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Locust Swarms Descend on Egypt Like Biblical Plague
What might you do if a churning black cloud rising over the horizon turned out to be tens of millions of locusts headed straight for you? The word you’re looking for is probably “hide,” though if we’ve...
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Royal Diaries Reveal the Life of Edward VII in the 1800s
King Edward VII (1841–1910) enjoyed the company of countless mistresses throughout his married life, yet after 60 years as heir to the throne, he only ruled as king for nine years. But what was Queen...
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It Takes a Smuggler to Satisfy KFC Cravings in Gaza
Colonel Sanders would be proud. While the 74-year-old secret recipe for his fried chicken has remained firmly under wraps, cravings for his deep-fried deliciousness have become so widespread that an...
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Australia’s Feral-Camel Problem Has No Easy Solution
First imported to Australia in the 1800s from India, Arabia and Afghanistan as a cheap and hardy means of transport, the number of humpback camels Down Under has since exploded to more than a million...
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Tourist Behaving Badly: Chinese Teen Defaces Egyptian Relic
The boom in Chinese tourists traveling abroad appears to have led to at least one embarrassing incident for Chinese officials. Earlier this month, Mandarin characters were found etched into a...
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NextDraft: How Instagram Replaced Text Messaging
Om… Om… Omg A few months ago, my wife and I took a course on mindfulness and meditation. One of things I noticed was that the sensation of meditating provided just about the exact opposite sensation as...
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NextDraft: The Booming Wearable Tech Market
The Unstoppable Fashion Trend One morning when my daughter was two years-old, I asked her what she thought of the shirt I was wearing. She said it was fine. But when I pushed her for more feedback, she...
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NextDraft: Sandy Victims Win the Powerball and Other Fascinating News on the Web
Winners Claim Powerball Jackpot Let’s start with some good news. A group of sixteen employees at Ocean County’s vehicle maintenance department hit it big on the Powerball lottery. Ocean County was hit...
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NextDraft: How Much It Costs to Raise Kids and Other Fascinating News on the Web
The Cost of Raising Kids $241,080. According to the latest numbers from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, that’s how much it will cost you to raise a child born in 2012 for the next seventeen years....
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NextDraft: Rock Climbing Boosts Brain Power and Other Fascinating News on the...
Correction Appended: August 16, 2013 Scheduling Note: Due to travel plans, NextDraft will be published sporadically next week. The Brain on Extreme Sports Nicholas Spitzer is a professor of...
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Here Are the Top 12 Moments on Instagram in 2013
Instagram has released a snapshot of 2013 milestones through some of the photos and users who were documenting them. (LIST: Most Instagrammed Places of 2013) See the full list below: • Habemus Papam:...
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TIME Picks the Top 10 Photos of 2013
More than ever, photography has become the predominant means for us to communicate. An absolutely astounding number of pictures are shared every single day — half a billion, and rising. And yet...
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