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And now, sit back and prepare for the freakiest, most insane video you will ever see from an actual functioning government. The bizarre footage, accompanied by the sound of a cheap rendition of “We are the World“, was uploaded last week by the North’s official website, ‘Uriminzokkiri’, which distributes news from the state media. The [...]
The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is probably one of the most fascinating places on Earth, mostly because we know so little about what really goes on over there. What we do know is only what they want to show us. I’ve come across these rare archives of retro postcards and what looks like tourist [...]
North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Il was a known film enthusiast, or what we might call a ‘movie-buff’. He especially loved the kind of movies that portrayed America as the evil imperialist devil– but there weren’t too many of those floating around Hollywood. So to take matters into his own hands, Kim poured a whole load [...]
Here’s one they left out of the history textbooks. A recent French film, Free Men, brought to
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The garden state; where gas prices are cheaper and boardwalks are longer, and also where Napoleon
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Apparently Keira Knightley and her co-stars improvised their way through this thirteen minute
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In Paris, every first Wednesday of the month at noon, without fail you can hear the eerie wail of
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Attention archive photography lovers! There’s a new Tumblr in town by National Geographic
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As if Google Street View wasn’t already cool enough, allowing you to virtually be in two
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High heels were not originally intended to be worn by women. In fact, the coveted red-soled
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I‘m not the kind of person you’re going to catch waiting in a museum queue that goes
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I‘m not used to seeing segregated America in pretty pastels. Typically, the civil rights
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There is no feeling quite like it, when you realize you’ve discovering something that’s
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The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is probably one of the most fascinating places on
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The luxury French resort of a different variety … Photo source: Flick User An Agent Like a
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Behind the number 12, rue Chabanais, a typical building on a typical back street not far from the
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Just a photograph of your average Nazi rally in Hitler Germany. Or is it? At the launch of a German
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Hey, so this weekend while we were out Christmas shopping and getting wasted, the unmanned aerial
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