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Lost Season 6

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Deadly Earthquake Strikes Indonesia

A powerful earthquake struck near the city of Padang on Indonesia's Sumatra island. As... more

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Shutter Island Movie Trailer

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Recycled Paradise

This man-made island floats on 100,000 recycled plastic bottles, has its own beaches... more

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A Holiday in Iraq? + Vocation Vacations & The World's Largest Pool: Trip on a Deal Ep. 14

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Kapakahi say, "What does LIGHT UP mean 2 You?"

How do you LIGHT UP? What does LIGHT UP mean to you? How do You LIGHT UP someone else?... more

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Visiting Nantucket Island: Trip on a Deal Ep 34

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A paradise for sale

The Brijuni archipelago, in Croatia, it's on sale for 2,5 billion euros. Fourteen... more

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TGN Review: Wii Sports Resort

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The Best US Island Vacation Spots: Trip on a Deal Ep 33

http://www.triponadeal.com The best Island Destinations in the United States. This... more

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Griffiths Island Australia - Searching for Shearwater

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Jamaican Rice and Peas

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Lost Season 6 Trailer

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Discovering the World’s Most Mysterious Places

These places accommodate some miraculous and natural superpowers that man could not... more

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Searching for Answers: Easter Island

Jeremy Hildreth writes, "First, the heads.

Archaeologists have inventoried 887 carved figures made between about A.D. 1000 and 1600. These big busts, called moai, are an average of 13 feet tall and are known to islanders as the "living faces." They represent ancestors and elders. "For us, they are people," one descendent of the natives told me.

Perhaps. But for me they are just ancient and alien statues. Their meaning isn't intrinsic at all -- it is abstract, intense and interrogative: I want to sit at their feet and ask questions. I feel these guys know something, and I want to know it too. Gigantic and primitive, the moai provoke not reverence or awe but pure wonder, registered as a definite physical sensation, a kind of cosmic "Huh?"

Such ethereal queries are accompanied by terrestrial ones, such as: How did the moai get from the single quarry where they all were carved to their erect positions -- mostly dotted around the coastal perimeter with their backs to the sea -- up to 12 miles away? Several theories have been demonstrated as feasible, including dragging the statues on wooden sleds. "There are lots of ways they could have been moved," says Sergio Rapu, the only born Easter Islander who is also a trained archaeologist. "'How was it actually done?' is the question."

Oral history claims that the statues walked, and Mr. Rapu believes he has found examples of the "shoes" they wore for the journey: stones, flat on the topside, used by the islanders to pivot a trussed-up statue back and forth and forward -- like moving a refrigerator -- while synchronizing their exertions with chanting. Some experiments show a convincing way the moai, if lashed upright into a wooden frame, could have marched themselves along practically under their own power, as though hobbling on crutches. In truth, islanders may have used a combination of techniques.

And why did they make so many? Well, why not? Easter Island, in the relative far east of the Pacific Ocean, 2,360 miles from South America, was one of the very last places to be settled by Polynesians. People arrived around the year 500, and after several generations the population was sufficient to get into the labor-intensive monument business. Polynesians were carvers anyway; here they had the perfect volcanic rock for it and little else to occupy their time. So statue building became the central activity of Easter's society. Unsurprisingly, the maximum population of 15,000 to 20,000, reached in the 15th or 16th century, corresponds to the peak of moai-making."Jeremy Hildreth writes, "First, the heads. Archaeologists have inventoried 887... more