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August 13, 2006
A twin mountain located 12km north of Zhenfeng town in the Guizhou province in China perfectly resembles a pair of breasts. The two mountains, standing side by side, also has a strange mould on top of it that looks like nipples. Locals call it the dual breast mountain.
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August 5, 2006
Scientists say global warming is actually making the world's mountains taller. Glaciers are causing the Earth's crust to to flex inward and when the glasciers disappear, the crust springs back out and the mountains are pushed further skyward. The research is written in the July Issue of "Geophysical Research Letters. "
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May 24, 2006
Twelve-year-old Bonny Jain garnered the top prize in 2006 the National Geographic Bee, bagging for himself a cool $25,000. The BBC reports that the eighth-grader from Moline, Illinois, won a $25,000 college scholarship by correctly naming the mountains that extend across much of Wales, from the Irish Sea to the Bristol Channel.
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May 18, 2006
China is planning to launch luxury trains riding the so-called roof of the world when the long anticipated and highly controversial railway to Tibet opens in July. Yahoo News says the five-star trains will have showers, on board folk dance shows and karaoke.
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May 16, 2006
Topics water, swimming, ice, mountains, africa, telephone, hands, bear, love, island, lost, body, reuters and world
"Ice Bear" Lewis Gordon Pugh has broken his own world record for the longest ice water swim on Friday. Lewis swam for 1. 2 kilometres inside the Norwegian mountains where the water temperature in the lake, about 300km northeast of Bergen, was just above zero degrees.
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