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François-Dominique Toussaint L'ouverture , also Toussaint Bréda, Toussaint-Louverture (May 20, 1743–April 8, 1803) was a leader of the Haitian Revolution.He was also called "The Black George Washington" Born in Saint Domingue, in a long struggle for independence Toussaint led enslaved Africans to victory over Europeans, abolished slavery, and secured native control over the colony in 1797 while nominally governor of the colony. He expelled the French commissioner Léger-Félicité Sonthonax, as well as the British armies; invaded Santo Domingo to free the slaves there; and wrote a constitution naming himself governor-for-life that established a new polity for the colony.Read more about this remarquable man on MFS,a must read !With videoclip about his life.

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The Coral Castle is a stone structure created by the Latvian-American eccentric Edward Leedskalnin north of the city of Homestead, Florida in Miami-Dade County. The structure comprises numerous megalithic stones (mostly limestone, formed from coral), each weighing several tons.Read more about it on MFS.

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Sir Henry Morton Stanley, GCB, born John Rowlands (28 January 1841 – 10 May 1904), was a Welsh journalist and explorer famous for his exploration of Africa and his search for David Livingstone. Stanley is often remembered for the words uttered to Livingstone upon finding him: "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?", although there is some question as to authenticity of this now famous greeting.With also a short part on Belgian Congo which Stanley explored for the Belgium King Leopold II.Read more about it on MFS.

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The The Dorchester Pot was a metal vase that was recovered in two pieces after an explosion used to break up rock at Meeting House Hill, in Dorchester, Massachusetts in 1852. According to text reprinted by Anonymous (1852) from the Boston Transcript, a local paper, in the June 5, 1852 Scientific American, the two pieces were found, loose among debris thrown out by the explosion. Apparently, it was inferred from the locations of the two pieces of this pot among the explosion debris that this pot had been blasted from solid puddingstone (conglomerate), which is part of the Roxbury conglomerate, from about 15 feet below the surface of Meeting House Hill (Anonymous 1852).

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Ahmadinejad Larry King Video September 26, 2009.

A 21 th century Pinocchio story !

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What's new this week on MFS ?
We added a new menu to all the Classic Rock songs so that you can go to any song from any page .

http://www.themanyfacesofspaces.com/MFS-ClassicRockHome.html .

We added to all the Strange but True pages translators they work on the copy and paste principle new with these translators is that you can mail from them also.

On The Other News links who had expired were repaired .

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The Wolfsegg Iron, also known as the The Salzburg Cube, is a small cuboid mass of iron that was found buried in Tertiary lignite (often referred to as brown coal, or Rosebud coal ) in Wolfsegg, Austria, in 1885. It weighs 785 grams and measures 67 x 67 x 47mm. Four of its sides are roughly flat, while the two remaining sides (opposite each other) are convex. A fairly deep groove is incised all the way around the object, about mid-way up its height.
Originally identified as being of meteoric origin, a suggestion later ruled out by analysis.

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The Kakapo (Māori: kākāpō, meaning night parrot), also called owl parrot, is a species of flightless nocturnal parrot endemic to New Zealand. It has finely blotched yellow-green plumage, a distinct facial disc of sensory, vibrissa(whiskers)-like feathers, a large grey beak, short legs, large feet, and wings and a tail of relatively short length. A certain combination of traits makes it unique among its kind—it is the world's only flightless parrot, the heaviest parrot, nocturnal, herbivorous, visibly sexuall dimorphic (is the systematic difference in form between individuals of different sex in the same species)in body size, has a low basal metabolic rate, no male parental care, and is the only parrot to have a polygynous lek((mating arena) breeding system. It is also possibly one of the world's longest-living birds.

Kakapo are critically endangered; as of April 2009, only 125 living individuals are known, most of which have been given names.

Read more about this amazing bird on MFS,with videoclip.

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Scott's Hut aka the Terra Nova hut is a building located on the north shore of Cape Evans on Ross Island in Antarctica. It was erected in 1911 by the British Antarctic Expedition of 1910–1913 (also known as the Terra Nova Expedition) led by Robert Falcon Scott. From here Scott and four companions set out on the ultimately fatal trek to the South Pole. Although abandoned in 1913, the hut and its contents are remarkably well preserved today due to the consistently sub-freezing conditions.

Read more about it on MFS ,with 2 videoclips.

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The Holy Blood of Christ.

A venerated phial (a broad flat container) said to contain a cloth with blood of Jesus Christ.

In all likelihood, the relic originated from the 1204 sack of Constantinople by the army of the Count of Flanders, Baldwin IX during the Fourth Crusade.But whatever the Precious Blood is, the Papal Bull Licit, dated June 1, 1310, confirmed something of great interest about this relic. The Bull specified that each Friday noon, drops fell from the Precious Blood. Since that time, however, this phenomenon – the clotted blood returning to its liquid form – has never been observed. The only exception was in 1388, when a bishop, sent by Pope Urban VI, placed the crystal phial in the gold-framed cylinder in which it still sits today. Read more about it on MFS.With videoclip of The holy Blood Procession.

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The Cymothoa exigua or the Tongue eating louse is a parasitic crustacean of the family Cymothoidae(Isopods). It tends to be 3 to 4 cm long. This parasite enters through the gills, and then attaches itself at the base of the spotted rose snapper's tongue. It then proceeds to extract blood through the claws on its front three pairs of legs. As the parasite grows, less and less blood reaches the tongue, and eventually the organ atrophies from lack of blood. The parasite then replaces the fish's tongue by attaching its own body to the muscles of the tongue stub.Image by Dr.Nico Smit.Read more about it on MFS.

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The Starchild Skull: Daily Mail article by Danny Penmann, PhD .

Is the Starchild Skull really from a human-alien hybrid? By Danny Penman .

And All official you tube videos (New)by Lloyd Pye head of the starchild project.

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The tallest man in the world 2009 : Sultan Kösen .

Sultan Kösen (born 1983) is a Turkish farmer and the current record holder of the tallest living man in the world as recognised by Guinness World Records.

Read more about him on MFS, with videoclip.

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An ice palace or ice castle is a castle-like structure made of blocks of ice. These blocks are usually harvested from nearby rivers or lakes when they become frozen in winter. The first known ice palace (or, rather, ice house, ледяной дом in Russian) appeared in St. Petersburg, Russia and was the handiwork of Empress Anna.

Read more about it on MFS.

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Blood Falls is an outflow of an iron oxide-tainted plume of saltwater, occurring at the tongue of the Taylor Glacier onto the ice-covered surface of West Lake Bonney in the Taylor Valley of the McMurdo Dry Valleys in Victoria Land, East Antarctica.
Iron-rich hypersaline water sporadically emerges from small fissures in the ice cascades. The saltwater source is a subglacial pool of unknown size overlain by about 400 meters of ice at several kilometers from its tiny outlet at Blood Falls.Read more about it on MFS.

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Prypiat or Pripyat, is an abandoned city in the zone of alienation in northern Ukraine, Kiev Oblast, near the border with Belarus.The city his name comes from the nearby river Pripyat. The city was founded in 1970 to house the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant workers, and was abandoned in 1986 following the Chernobyl disaster. Its population had been around 50,000 prior to the accident.Now it's a ghost town.Read more about it on MFS,with videoclip of the evacuation.

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Hashima Island aka Battleship Island.

Hashima Island or simply "Hashima," as the suffix -shima already means "island" in Japanese, commonly called Gunkanjima (meaning "Battleship Island") is one among 505 uninhabited islands in the Nagasaki Prefecture about 15 kilometers from Nagasaki itself. The island was populated from 1887 to 1974 as a coal mining facility. The island's most notable features are the abandoned concrete buildings and the sea wall surrounding it.

Read more about it on MFS,with 2 videoclips.

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The Hispid Hare, Caprolagus hispidus, is a leporid native to the foothills of the Himalaya. This hare was formerly widely distributed but its habitat is much reduced and degraded by deforestation, cultivation, and human settlement, and now it is confined to isolated regions in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal and Assam.There were an estimated 110 hispid hares worldwide in 2001.It is one of the worlds rarest animals.

Read more about this truly rare animal on MFS,better pic of the animal on the website!

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Career video clips .

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10 Ways to Avoid a Cop Giving You a Speeding Ticket : MFS-TheResourceCenter-Auto-B

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The Ornate Fruit-dove is a species of bird in the Columbidae family. It is found in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montanes.Read more about it on MFS.

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The Mallomys is a genus of rodent in the Muridae family.It contains the following species:
De Vis's Woolly Rat (Mallomys aroaensis)
Alpine Woolly Rat (Mallomys gunung)
Subalpine Woolly Rat (Mallomys istapantap)
Rothschild's Woolly Rat (Mallomys rothschildi)
And the Bosavi Woolly Rat (Unnamed) .

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Photo credit Bruce M. Beehler/AFP/Getty Images)

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The 'Northern Hairy-nosed Wombat', also known as the 'Yaminon', is one of three species of wombats. It was found across New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland as recently as 100 years ago, but is now restricted to a 3 km² range within the 32 km² Epping Forest National Park in Queensland. It is one of the rarest large mammals in the world and is critically endangered.Read more about this animal on MFS.With videoclip.

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The Golden-mantled Tree-kangaroo, Dendrolagus pulcherrimus is a species of tree-kangaroo native and endemic to montane forests of northern New Guinea. It has chestnut brown short coat with a pale belly, and yellowish neck, cheeks and feet. A double golden stripe runs down its back. The tail is long and has pale rings.
Its appearance is similar to the closely related Goodfellow's Tree-kangaroo. It differs from the latter by having a pinkish or lighter color face, golden shoulders, white ears and smaller size.Read more about this animal on MFS.

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The Fuente Magna bowl was found accidentally by a worker from the CHUA Hacienda, property of the Manjon family located near Lake Titicaca about 75-80 km from the city of La Paz, Bolivia . The site where it was found had not been studied for artifacts previously. The Fuente Magna is beautifully engraved in earthen-brown both inside and out and bears zoological motifs and anthropomorphic characters within,the amazing fact is that the writing is in Proto-Sumerian script !
Readmore about it on MFS.

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The Takin is a goat-antelope found in the Eastern Himalayas. There are four subspecies: B. taxicolor taxicolor, the Mishmi Takin; B. taxicolor bedfordi, the Shanxi or Golden Takin; B. taxicolor tibetana, the Tibetan or Sichuan Takin; and B. taxicolor whitei, the Bhutan Takin. The takin is the national animal of Bhutan.Picture : Golden Takin,read more about this animal on MFS.

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The Plain of Jars is a large group of historic cultural sites in Laos containing thousands of stone jars, which lie scattered throughout the Xieng Khouang plain in the Lao Highlands at the northern end of the Annamese Cordillera, the principal mountain range of Indochina.

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Joseph Carey Merrick (5 August 1862 – 11 April 1890) was an Englishman who became known as "The Elephant Man" because of his physical appearance caused by a congenital disorder. Because of his condition, he would garner the sympathy of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland during the great Victorian era. He has often been incorrectly called John Merrick.

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