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After 26 years a banned Iranian film is finally released
Twenty-six years after it was banned and seized by the Iranian government, Mohsen Makhmalbaf's The Nights of Zayandeh-rood finally goes public.
A flight over Japan's Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route
Here's a flight over Japan's Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route, where walls of snow can reach over 60 feet high.
March 7, 2017
Marines used a private Facebook group, Marines United, to share hundreds, possibly thousands, of naked photographs of female service members and veterans. / revealnews.org A new edition of the Best Countries survey ranks Switzerland as No. 1, from a survey of more than 21,000 people from 36 countries. / U.
The sport of tricking is not what you might expect
The sport of tricking is all about getting off the ground and doing as much crazy stuff as you can before touching back down. Oh, is that the sport of tricking?
March 6, 2017
Among the more aerodynamic hairstyles we’ve seen, here’s a 1923 photograph of a Rwandan man wearing the “amasunzu.” / AnotherMag As France prepares for its presidential election—a country, it should be said, that’s been invaded three times by Germany since 1870; is currently in its fifth republic;
The best catch in baseball recently involved a bat
In case your sports-nut aunt hasn't emailed this to you yet, here's the best catch in baseball last week, by the Mets' Luis Giullorme. And in case that YouTube video should get yanked... pic.twitter.com/rpBghlWXUk — SportsNet New York (@SNYtv) March 2, 2017
George W Bush demands credit for strategery
President George W. Bush wants credit for his Bushisms. “I had dinner with Lorne Michaels, the head of Saturday Night Live, and he said, ‘I put a great speechwriter on you, and he came up with “strategery.”’ And I said, ‘Wait a minute, I said “strategery.”’ And he said, ‘No,
March 3, 2017
Gambian Ali Sonko, an immigrant in Denmark, just became a partner at Noma, one of the world’s best restaurants, after washing dishes there for 13 years. / b.dk, Eater “There was absolutely nothing misleading about his answer.” Jeff Sessions’s spokesperson is apparently lying even now about the fact
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Will Putin expose the failings of American democracy or will he inadvertently expose the strength of American democracy? An exhaustive examination of Putin’s reaction to the fallout from the Cold War, and how it led to his government apparently collecting kompromat on Trump. ↩︎ The New Yorker, posted Mar. 3,