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Ancient Ceremonial Site Helps Answer Key Question About Mayan Culture

Posted 04.26.2013 | Science

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By: Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Senior Writer Published: 04/25/2013 02:09 PM EDT on LiveScience The oldest ancient Maya ceremonial compound ever...

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Mayan Demise Linked To Dramatic Weather Shift

Posted 04.12.2013 | Science

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By: Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Senior Writer Published: 04/11/2013 03:32 PM EDT on LiveScience The Mayan apocalypse may have been a bust, but a...

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Why Does White Chocolate Even Exist?

Anneli Rufus | Posted 04.09.2013 | Taste

Read More: Cacao, Jcoco, White Chocolate, Marich Confectionery, Chris Blue, Chocolate, International Chocolate Salon, Seattle Chocolates, Chocolatier Blue, ENO Wine Bar, Meyer Lemon, Tastetv, Maya, Kukulkan, Taste News

White chocolate is to me the un-chocolate, the anti-chocolate, the phantom zombie impostor chocolate that goes around looking and feeling and teasing you into believing that it will taste like chocolate, but lacking color, complexity and mystery.

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Chemists Crack Code Of Mysterious 'Mayan Blue'

Posted 04.03.2013 | Science

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By: Megan Gannon, News Editor Published: 04/03/2013 09:09 AM EDT on LiveScience The ancient Maya used a vivid, remarkably durable blue paint to co...

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PHOTOS: Tulum For Families

GoTrexx | Posted 05.08.2013 | Travel

Read More: Yucatan Travel, Yucatan, Mexico, Mayan Ruins, Mexico Travel, Tulum, Tulum Travel, Maya, Travel News

In its heyday, Tulum served as a port of call for mariners and traders, and its walls defined the ancient town's defense against invaders from sea and land.

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In Search of Picasso's Corpse

Carole Mallory | Posted 04.23.2013 | Books

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I thought about my days as an art teacher in Lower Merion, Pennsylvania, and how my students would have loved to have been here with us.

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Tourists In Town For So-Called 'Maya Apocalypse' Wreack Havoc On Ruins

Fox News Latino | Posted 12.27.2012 | Latino Voices

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The so-called Mayan Apocalypse didn’t occur, but an ancient temple nearly met its end. Tourists in Guatemala for “end of the world” parties l...

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A Second Chance To Discover Mundo Maya

Andrew Burmon | Posted 12.23.2012 | Travel

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Cancun - On December 21, the eyes of the world turned towards the ruins of the Maya Empire and the eyes of those amid that megalithic rubble turned he...

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If the World Ends, Will You Leave Happy?

Brett Blumenthal | Posted 02.20.2013 | Healthy Living

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As an architecture student, I chose to do my thesis on creating a mobile health care facility that could reach the indigenous people of Copan, Hondura...

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Maya Celebrations Across Latin America

The Huffington Post | Posted 12.21.2012 | Latino Voices

Maya celebrations marking the end of the calendar known as Baktun 13 and the start of a new era were held across Mesoamerica and observed in other...

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Newtown: A Crisis of Faith

Eliezer Sobel | Posted 02.20.2013 | Religion

But my question remains: is it ever even possible to feel and experience a sense of utter and absolute safety in this life in the very same breath that we inhale the daily news?

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New Agers Hope Dec. 21 Brings New Era

AP | MARK STEVENSON | Posted 02.19.2013 | World

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MERIDA, Mexico — Doomsday hour is here, at least in much of the world, and so still are we. According to legend, the ancient Mayans' long-count...

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In Mexico, Locals Not Prepping For Doomsday

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrew Burmon | Posted 12.20.2012 | Travel

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San Juan de Dios, Mexico is an unremarkable town 10 kilometers into the forest south of the ruins at Coba, where tourist buses park next to a shallow,...

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Maya to Us: 'Grow Up!'

Stephen Hren | Posted 02.18.2013 | Green

Read More: Sustainability, Apocalypse, Endless Growth, Solstice, Maya, Green News

We are well-advised to heed warnings of collapse from a civilization that didn't even make it to its own supposed apocalypse! In these days of climate...

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How Did We Arrive At This Mayan Armageddon Craziness?

Reuters | Gabriel Stargardter | Posted 12.19.2012 | Religion

(Reuters) - A few words by an American scholar, a crumbling Mexican monument and the love of a good yarn were all it took to spawn the belief that the...

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Inside Mexico's Abandoned 'Eiffel Tower'

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrew Burmon | Posted 12.20.2012 | Travel

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A thin cement pier juts out into the warm waters of Chetumal's bay toward a small island dominated by a mysterious structure. Though fences have been ...

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The Yucatan's 'Cradle of the Mestizo'

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrew Burmon | Posted 12.19.2012 | Travel

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The repainted school buses that run from Belize City up to Mexico fill with old white men in coveralls, young creole girls in beachwear and Garifuna i...

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The Real Mayan End of the World (PHOTOS)

Fotis Kanteres | Posted 02.17.2013 | World

I find the sensationalized subject of the Mayan "end of the world" to demean the experience of the people here in Mayan Guatemala, many of whom experience a world that is swarmed by daily threats of an end that is very real. Recently I asked a nun about the sexual abuse of women.

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PHOTOS: Exploring Tikal On The Eve Of The Apocalypse

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrew Burmon | Posted 12.18.2012 | Travel

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The day I cross the border from Belize at Benque the man hawking newspapers from a moped in La Maquina is shouting into his bullhorn that John McAfee ...

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Are We at the End of Days? This Mayan Says...

The GypsyNesters | Posted 02.10.2013 | Weird News

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Think Y2K was scary? This is Y2K plus a dozen! We needed a dose of reality to calm our nerves, so we went straight to the source, the Mayan ruins at Tulum.

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Fleeing Doom With A One-Way Ticket

Posted 12.11.2012 | Travel

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The Mayan prophecy that the world will end on December 21, 2012, is now affecting flight bookings according to fare finder Skyscanner, which reports t...

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Celebrating the Day of the Dead With the Maya of Guatemala (PHOTOS)

Fotis Kanteres | Posted 02.10.2013 | World

The sole, crumbling mausoleum provided for a grand panorama of the surroundings: a sea of Maya with their typical colorful apparel and wares. As kites swayed in the sky, the priest took the microphone and uttered some prayers and proclamations. Amidst this chaos I found a peace.

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Celebrating Maya Culture, Calendar, This Friday in Boulder

Joshua Berman | Posted 11.25.2012 | Denver

Read More: Event, Boulder, Aumrak, Mexico, Guatemala, Maya, John Major Jenkins, Spirituality, Colorado, 2012, Independent Film, Latin America, Mayans, Film, Video, Denver News

This Friday, 2012: In the Beginning, a documentary film by Director Shannon Kring Buset, premiers at the Nomad Theater in Boulder. It answers questions about the Maya calendar, and will also raise money for the San Rafael School of Copán Ruinas, Honduras.

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LOOK: Family Finds Maya Murals During Home Renovation

The Huffington Post | Carolina Moreno | Posted 09.14.2012 | Latino Voices

These walls have eyes. An entire procession of eyes, noses, and ears belonging to the painted figures dressed in traditional Maya and Spanish fashion ...

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Denver Premiere of Mayan Renaissance showcase's Film Society's Women + Film series

Joshua Berman | Posted 10.15.2012 | Denver

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On Tuesday, August 21, the Denver Film Society will feature Mayan Renaissance a 68-minute, feature length documentary shot in Guatemala, "which documents the glory of the ancient Maya civilization.

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