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Travel if you Dare: The Remotest Abandoned Wonders of the World

Saturday, October 31, 2009 11:00 By GSerrano

There are far-flung places on Earth that have been abandoned by humans. Humans had been there before but extreme environmental conditions made them pack their precious belongings and head to more humanly-receptive climes. Here are some of those abandoned wonders:
On the western tip of the Scottish Outer Hebrides is the ‘most windswept, storm-tossed part of [...]

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North Korea’s forced labor concentration camps revealed

Tuesday, July 21, 2009 13:38 By GSerrano

For more than 50 years, North Korea has been operating prison camps that are actually forced labor concentration camps. Government and political oppositionists are incarcerated and forced to do slave labor in these camps which hold an estimated 200,000 prisoners. Forced labor has been regarded as ‘an opportunity for redemption.’
North Korea’s government has been denying [...]

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