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Remembering the Holocaust - With Steponas

Ellen Cassedy | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Jews, Lithuania, Holocaust, Holocaust Remembrance Day, Judaism, Jewish History, Holocaust Remembrance Day 2012, Lithuanian Jews, Yom Hashoah, World War Two, World War II, Yom HaShoah 2012, World News
Ellen Cassedy

On Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, I will remember the six million who perished -- and I'll also remember a man I met in Lithuania, a man I'll call Steponas. I didn't expect to encounter an elderly gentile man intent on speaking to a Jew before he died. But I did.

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Man Fined After Anti-Gay Facebook Comments In Response To Lady Gaga Article

Posted 02.01.2012

Read More: Lithuania, Lady Gaga Gay Rights, Homophobia, Lady GaGa, Lady Gaga Gay, Lady Gaga LGBT, Born This Way, Video, Gay Voices News

Lady Gaga's outspoken support of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community has undoubtedly divided a fair number of music fans in th...

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Putin, Lenin and The Tsar: Moscow's Second Conference of "World Against Nazism"

Richard Brodsky | Posted 03.21.2012

Read More: Latvia, Lithuania, Nazis, Occupy Wall Street, Moscow, Arab Spring, Richard Brodsky, Dont Ask Dont Tell, Politics News
Richard Brodsky

The conference is attracting major figures such as Elie Weisel partially because of its focus on the Holocaust, but the running conversation about the re-emergence of political activity that mimics Nazi ideology is an important one.

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Lithuania: World's Goofiest Tourism Promoter?

Posted 12.11.2011

Read More: Lithuania Travel, Vilnius, Travel, Lithuania, Gotta See This, Vilnius Travel, Europe Travel, Video, Travel News

Lithuania’s National Tourism Board is not going to back down. After Stephen Colbert reviewed the board’s Lithuania perfume harshly earlier this ye...

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WATCH: Headsplitting New Museum Design

Posted 11.27.2011

Read More: Lithuania, Obliteration, France, Sculpture, Nice, Design, Extreme Architecture, Weird Architecture, French Gallery, Visionary Art, UK Arts, French Art, Rytis Daukantas, Nice Gallery, La Paille Dans L'?Il Du Voisin, Sosno, Museum Head Sculpture, Nice Sculpture, Crazy Architecture, Extreme Design, Video, Arts News

Vegas, eat your heart out: a new museum in the works, 'La Paille Dans L'œil Du Voisin,' brings imaginative architecture to surreal new heights. Frenc...

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First Round Complete at EuroBasket 2011 in Lithuania

Carl Berman | Posted 11.06.2011

Read More: Sports, Lithuania, Eurobasket Lithuania, Professional Basketball, European Basketball, Eurobasket 2011, Basketball, Sports News, Sports News
Carl Berman

Yesterday was the final day of the first round brought some surprises to Eurobasket 2011.

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WATCH: Vilnius Mayor Crushes Car To Send 'Message'

Posted 10.02.2011

Read More: Arturas Zuokas Crushes Car, Vilnius, Video, Lithuania, Vilnius Lithuania, Arturas-Zuokas-Crushes-Car, Vilnius Mayor, World News

Having grown tired of a series of complaints over illegally parked cars, the mayor of Lithuania's capital opted to send his city's abundance of disres...

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Lithuania Wins U19 Championship: Valanciunas MVP

Carl Berman | Posted 09.09.2011

Read More: u19 Fiba Championships, Sports, Fiba, Basketball News, Lithuania, Toronto Raptors, u19, 2011 Nba Draft, Jonas Valanciunas, u19 Championship, Basketball, Fiba u19, Nba, USA Basketball, Sports News, Sports News
Carl Berman

The best young team of the world, reigning u18 European champion Lithuania won the u19 World Championship in Riga to confirm their domination among the 92-93 generation players.

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The 'Euthanasia Coaster' And The Art Of The Amusement Park

Posted 08.25.2011

Read More: Industrial Design, Julijonas Urbonas, Amusement Park, Lithuania, Conceptual Art, Royal College of Art, Sculpture, Euthanasia Coaster, Design, Roller Coaster, G-Force, Euthanasia, Gravity, Arts News

The "Euthanasia Coaster," a roller-coaster designed to be fatal, is a conceptual art piece and model for a more pleasant way to die. The sinister-...

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Willow Tree: The Roots of Pink and Carey Hart's Baby Girl

Megan Smolenyak | Posted 08.14.2011

Read More: Italy, Pink, Germany, Motocross, Baby, Lithuania, Jersey City, Family Tree, P!Nk, Music, Jewish, California, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Willow Sage Hart, Poland, Russia, Genealogy, Philadelphia, Ireland, Carey Hart, Family History, Atlantic City, Entertainment News
Megan Smolenyak

I couldn't help but think that Pink's baby Willow was waltzing into this world with a powerful gene pool. So I decided to look into it.

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'Blonde Island' Resort Planned In Maldives

AP | LIUDAS DAPKUS | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Island, Lithuania, Island Resort, Olialia @Y:World, Blond, Blonde, Maldives, Blonde Hair, World News

VILNIUS, Lithuania — Empowering blondes or stereotyping them? The jury is out on a Lithuanian company that plans to build a "fantasy resort" st...

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How Did Mad Magazine's Al Jaffee Become A 'Shtetl-Style Lithuanian Huck Finn'?

Al Jaffee | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Slidepollajax, Al Jaffee Mad Life, Lithuania, Mad Magazine, Al Jaffee, Funnies, Shtetl, Cartoon, Cartoonist, Huck Finn, Books News
Al Jaffee

He has lived in New York for 77 years and has spent the last 40 summers in Provincetown. Even so, the key to his genius as a satirist, is that he doesn't feel at home anywhere.

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Lithuania's Eurovision 2010 Song: 'Eastern European Funk' by InCulto (VIDEO)

Will Adams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Europe, Eurovision Song Contest, Eurovision 2010, Eurovision, Lithuania, Jurgis Didziulis, World News, Inculto, Eurovision Second Semi-Final, World News
Will Adams

In "Eastern European Funk," look past the confetti and you'll find a tongue-and-cheek commentary on Western Europeans, and the fashionable belief that Europe stops at the German border.

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World's Most Stunning Presidential Palaces (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Curtis Wong | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Italy, Taiwan, Ghana, Vietnam, Presidential Palace, Pakistan, Head of State, France @Y:World, Lithuania, Argentina, Slidepollajax, Korea, Finland, India, Brazil, World News

Presidential palaces are usually one of a city's most impressive aesthetic highlights for both citizens and tourists alike. In cases like Buenos Aires...

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U.S. Foreign Aid May Entice Partners To Stay In Afghanistan

AP | LOLITA C. BALDOR | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Aghanistan, Foreign Aid, U.S. Foreign Aid, Afghanistan Partners, Taliban, Georgia, Croatia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, World News

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is pouring millions of dollars into equipment and training for its smaller partner nations in the Afghanistan war, a n...

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Kosher Beef? Israel Paraders Chant "Go Back to Hungary & Poland!" at Ultra-Orthodox Jews (WATCH)

Michael Gould-Wartofsky | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Neturei Karta, Jews, Hungary, Protests, Lithuania, Haredi, New York Police Department, Stop Islamization of America, Salute to Israel Parade, Orthodox Jews, Poland, Israel, Ultra-Orthodox Jews, Anti-Semitism, Zionism, Anti-Zionism, Tea Party, Jewish Action Alliance, Judaism, New York News, New York News
Michael Gould-Wartofsky

Amid an otherwise festive ethos at New York City's annual Salute to Israel Parade, hundreds of paraders ended up facing off with a group of ultra-Orthodox Jews who oppose the state of Israel.

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The Depression is Already Here for Some Members of Europe, and It Just Might Be Contagious!

Reggie Middleton | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Latvia, Eurozone, The Great Depression, Depression, Eastern Europe, Lithuania, European Union, Baltics, Europe, Cee, World News
Reggie Middleton

This is the 2nd to last installment in my Pan-European Sovereign Debt Crisis series. After covering western and southern Europe, we are moving eastwa...

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Sweden's Queen on "Fire Souls" -- Leaders in Child Protection

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mats Agurén, Aga Khan, Lucie Hrbkova, Latvia, Lithuania, Ecosoc, Axel Johnson Group, Amir Dossal, Brazil, Estonia, Jenny Bowen, Half the Sky China, Branding Strategies, Ann Veneman, Barbro E. Heinz Family, Fire Souls, Germany, Millennium Development Goals, Frances D. Alleman-Luce, Marilyn Carlson Nelson, Maja Svenonius, Charlotte Brandin, Childhood Anniversary Symposium, New York News
Jim Luce

Ten years ago, Her Majesty Queen Silvia of Sweden reached the point where she could no longer witness the appalling conditions of children around the ...

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Lithuania Hosted Secret CIA Prisons

AP | LIUDAS DAPKUS | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: CIA Prisons, Cia, Lithuania CIA, CIA Secret Prisons, Lithuania, World News

VILNIUS, Lithuania — Lithuania's intelligence agency helped the CIA set up secret prisons in the Baltic country, but it's unclear whether they w...

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Lithuania Investigates Secret CIA Prisons

ABC News | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: CIA Lithuania, Lithuania, Cia, Lithuania Black Site, Lithuania CIA, Black Sites, Lithuania CIA Prison, Foreign Affairs, CIA Prisons, World News

The president of Lithuania called for an official investigation Tuesday into an ABC News.com exclusive report in August that the CIA housed a secret p...

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CIA Secret Prison Found At Horseback Riding School In Lithuania

ABC News | Brian Ross And Matthew Cole | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Antivilai, Al-Qaada, Lithuania, Cia, Interrogation, Dalia Grybauskaite, Horses, Taliban, Llc, Rendition, Riding Academy, Vilnius, Nato, Human Rights, Prison, Elite, Elite Llc, Black Site, Cia Torture Prison, Horse Academy, Horseback Riding, Stable, Interrogation Tactics, Torture, World News

The CIA built one of its secret European prisons inside an exclusive riding academy outside Vilnius, Lithuania, a current Lithuanian government offici...

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Counter-Factual History: McCain Is President and Bono Wins the Nobel Prize

Leon T. Hadar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Straits of Hormuz, Syria, Shanghai Treaty Organization, Mongolia, Vaclav Havel, Lithuania, Bono, Kosovo, China, Cold War, Robert Kagan, Putin, Iran, Nato, Joe Lieberam, Russia, Lech Wa??Sa, Czech Republic, Latvia, John McCain, Serbia, League of Democracies, Nobel Peace Prize, Colombia, Chuck Hagel, Barack Obama, Medvedev, Cnn, Poland, Georgia, Israel, Wolf Blitzer, Tawian, Lita, World News
Leon T. Hadar

"I have to admit that I'm beginning to miss George W. Bush," is the way former Republican Senator "Chuck" Hagel responded when being asked by CNN's Wolf Blitzer to assess the foreign policy record of the administration of Republican President John McCain.

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Travel as Therapy, Pt 1: 10 Ways to Heal the Soul & Expand the Mind

Dr. Ali Binazir | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Suspend Judgment, Local Custom, Alex Benzer, Therapy, Tao Te Ching, Tibetan Buddhism, Warsaw, Lithuania, Mind Expansion, Travel Therapy, Travel, Healing, Lao Tzu, Tolerance, Tulku Lama Lobsang, Healthy Living News
Dr. Ali Binazir

Remember, you're only traveling because you've got time on your hands. So relax, take a look around you, and know that what you call a problem now will be a funny story later.

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Lithuania Anti-Gay Law: 'Protection Of Minors' Law Passes To Keep Existence Of Gays Hidden From Children

AP | LIUDAS DAPKUS | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Europe, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, Gay Rights, Lithuania, Lithuania Gay Ban, Lithuania Law for the Protection of Minors, Lithuania Gay Law, Last Lithuanian Law Gay, Gay Lithuania, Lithuanian Parliament Minors, Lithuania Anti-Gay, Lithuania Gay, Site:www.huffingtonpost.com 2009 Lithuania Anti Gay Law, World News

VILNIUS, Lithuania — Lithuania's Parliament on Tuesday approved a censorship bill that aims to keep information about homosexuality away from ch...

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Lithuanian Baby-Racing And Gordon Brown's Chin-Pinching: HuffPost's Caption Contest!

Huffington Post | Alex Leo | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lithuanian Baby Racing, Lithuania, Baby Racing, Kajus Auk??Ionis, Caption Contest, Poll, Comedy News

Original Caption: Something in Lithuanian. But apparently there's a baby race in the Baltic state that allows parents to bring toys and such to entice...

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