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THE BUSHMEN OF THE THIRD MILLENNIUM
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The Bushmen are among the best hunters and trackers in the world. They are able to determine the species, sex and age of an animal after examining the traces left behind by the beast. Now the sacks of hide containing bows and poisoned arrows worn by these men now also shelter a "Cybertracker", a small pocket sized computer equipped with a satellite connection. |
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THE PREHISTORIC ELEPHANTS CEMETERY
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Italy |
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Some 300,000 years ago, huge elephants,found themselves imprisoned in mud.After milleniums under the earth, their bones were kept in perfect shape |
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MOUNT ETNA AWAKENS...
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Sicily |
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Mount Etna, Sicily's famous volcano, woke up on October 27.2002. Its first burst of activity since July 2001.This time, the flows of lave might cause damage to farmland and property.Jets of ash continued to spurt from craters near the summit of the volcano covering the entire Catana area in black dust. A state of emergency has been declared. |
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CIGARETTE SMUGGLERS IN SOUTH ITALY
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Super fast, indestructible speedboats making light of the coast guard. Radar stations. All-terrain vehicles turned into armored war machines complete with bulletproof windows and snowplows1 for front bumpers to crash anything in the way, invisible hideouts worthy of James Bond movies and Ali Baba. The armada of the mafia of contraband cigarettes wreaks havoc in southern Italy. |
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THE VATICAN'S EXORCISTS
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Italy |
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Under the colonnade of Saint Peter's basilica, they wage a ruthless war against Satan The devil does exist ! The Vatican has officially recognized the fact. To confront this powerful and skilful enemy, the Roman Catholic Church has trained a small armada of official Exorcists. |
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THE CATS OF ROME
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Italy |
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Declared part of the eternal city's bio-cultural heritage the thousand cats that live in the ruins of ancient Rome are now officially considered as a "monument" just like the Coliseum or the Forum of Caesar. ! |
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THE "TOMATINA"
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Spain |
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Thousands of people, 125 tonnes of local produce, and an hour's worth of tomato slinging...Such is the annual "Tomatina" held in late august in Bunol |
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BARABAS'S DIAMOND
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Venezuela |
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Once upon a time lived a poor man in Venezuela by the name of Barabas. He fell upon one of the world's largest diamonds which ended up on the crown of an empress from Iran, Farah Deeba |
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GUATEMALA CITY'S STREETS CHILDREN
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Guatemala |
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Thousands abandonned children live in the streets of Guatemala city. Their nightmare : the police and the "death squads" who kidnap and torture them before killing them...in order to "clean the city" |
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THE VULTURE MEN
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Venezuela |
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With burnt faces, amputed members, destroyed lungs, they are the "garbage miners" of Caracas. True mercenaries of carrion, poverty forced them to sell their souls for a few tons of refuse ! |
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RIOTS IN CARACAS (1989)
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Three days of rioting erupted Feb. 27, 1989, when then-President Carlos Andres Perez raised gasoline prices under an International Monetary Fund-backed economic austerity plan. Hundreds died in the riots |
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ROME'S SCHOOL FOR GLADIATORS
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The Spartacus of the third millennium :The men and women who dream of becoming gladiators ! |
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Twice a week, men and also women meet at the very serious School for Gladiators to learn the art of Ancient Roman combat. There, they shed the clothing of respectable husbands and wives to dress in leather and steel and arm themselves with swords, tridents, nets and terrifying helmets. They are accountants or gardeners, waiters or students, but they are all united by a passion for physical exercise, history and the art of combat. |
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THE RESTORATION OF ITALIAN ART TREASURES DAMAGED BY THE EARTHQUAKE IN L'AQUILA
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More than 1000 Italian Art Treasures damaged by the earthquake in l'Aquila on April.2009, have been moved to the prehistoric museum at Celano, near l'Aquila, to be cleaned and restored,though some of them were irretrievably damaged. The earthquake damaged churches,palaces,museums and medieval towers. Celano,Italy. |
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THE TURTLE VILLAGE
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Senegal |
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"The citizens of my village are giant turtles !" . The giant spurred tortoise of continental Africa is the largest of its kind in the world.Such turtles often surpass 100 kg and may live 150 years. Venerated in the Sahel,these turtles are considered a legendary mediator between humans and their divinities, and have always symbolized happiness, fertility and longevity. Nowadays, these turtles are hunted down and sold, eaten or transformed into pets, and are in great danger of extinction," explained an indignant and saddened Tomas Diagne. The thirty something Senegalese man is a great lover of nature, and one day he decided that the last specimens of this ancient species had to be saved. How ? By founding a village, of which there is no other of the like in all Africa, in which giant turtles live peacefully among others of their kind, in total freedom, but protected from their mortal enemy : man ! |
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