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Algordanza, a small company based in the mountainous southeast of Switzerland, uses the ashes of dead people to make diamonds as a permanent memento for their nearest and dearest.And with prices starting at less than 5,000 euros ($7,488), the jewels are not solely the preserve of the jetset.
“Some people find it helpful to go to […]

The late German artist Martin Kippenberger’s crucified green frog — otherwise adorable — has been pissing off Pope Benedict XVI because, hey, what the fuck the frog’s doing on the cross? Doesn’t it know the Pope has kick-ass invisible friends?
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A tiny woman and two children were laid to rest on a bed of flowers 5,000 years ago in what is now the barren Sahara Desert.
Researchers discovered the slender arms of the youngsters still extended to the woman in a perpetual embrace.
The remarkable cemetery is providing clues to two civilisations who lived there, a thousand […]

An origami paper vagina, that is. Perfect for fun dinner table conversations.

At the height of UFO hysteria then sweeping the nation, two young barbers and a butcher took a dead monkey in 1953, lopped off its tail and applied a liberal dose of hair remover and some green coloring to the carcass.
Then they left the primate on an isolated road north of Atlanta in the pre-dawn […]

New research suggests that Stonehenge was used as a cemetery for more than 500 years, much longer than previously thought. The new findings also show that people used the area as a burial site long before placement of its trademark stones (or sarsen stones) was complete.
The team was led by Mike Parker Pearson, an archaeology […]

This is a marble acroterion that used to adorn the sarcophagus of some Roman hotshot from 2nd century AD, and as you can see, he looks like that guy you know who died while taking a dump.

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