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According to Web site VirtualTourist.com , The World’s Top 10 Ugliest Buildings and Monuments are:
1. Boston City Hall; Boston, Massachusetts
2. Montparnasse Tower; Paris, France
3. LuckyShoe Monument; Tuuri, Finland
4. Metropolitan Cathedral; Liverpool, England
5. Port Authority Bus Terminal; New York City, New York
6. Torres de Colon; Madrid, Spain
7. Liechtenstein Museum of Fine Arts; Vaduz, Liechtenstein
8. Scottish Parliament Building; Edinburgh, Scotland
9. Birmingham Central Library; Birmingham, England
10. Peter the Great Statue; Moscow, Russia
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- Mao Tse Tung (China) killed 35 million people 1949-1976
- Joseph Stalin (USSR) killed 20 million people 1929-1953
- Adolph Hitler(Nazi Germany)-killed 11 million people 1939-1945
- Kim Il Sung (North Korea) killed 3 million people 1948-1994
- Mohamed Suharto (Indonesia) killed 2 million people 1967-1998
- Pol Pot (Cambodia)- killed 1.4 million people 1975-1979
- Theoniste Bagosara (Rwanda) killed 1 million people April-July 1994
- Saddam Hussein (Iraq) killed 2 million people 1979-2003
- Ante Pavelic (Croatia) killed 300,000 people 1941-1944
- Idi Amin (Uganda)-300,000 1971-1979
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| Rank |
City |
| 2. |
Seoul, South Korea |
| 3. |
Tokyo, Japan |
| 4. |
Hong Kong, China |
| 5. |
London, England |
| 6. |
Osaka, Japan |
| 7. |
Geneva, Switzerland |
| 8. |
Copenhagen, Denmark |
| 9. |
Zurich, Switzerland |
| 10. |
Oslo, Norway |
Source: Mercer Human Resource Consulting
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| Rank |
Country |
Square Miles |
| 1. |
Russia |
6,592,735 |
| 2. |
Canada |
3,855,081 |
| 3. |
United States |
3,718,691 |
| 4. |
China |
3,705,386 |
| 5. |
Brazil |
3,286,470 |
| 6. |
Australia |
2,967,893 |
| 7. |
India |
1,269,338 |
| 8. |
Argentina |
1,068,296 |
| 9. |
Kazakhstan |
1,049,150 |
| 10. |
Sudan |
967,493 |
Source: U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau, International Database.
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| Name |
Position |
Estimates of funds allegedly embezzled (in U.S. $) |
| 1. Mohamed Suharto |
President of Indonesia (1967–1998) |
$15 to 35 billion |
| 2. Ferdinand Marcos |
President of the Philippines (1972–1986) |
5 to 10 billion |
| 3. Mobutu Sese Seko |
President of Zaire (1965–1997) |
5 billion |
| 4. Sani Abacha |
President of Nigeria (1993–1998) |
2 to 5 billion |
| 5. Slobodan Milosevic |
President of Serbia/Yugoslavia (1989–2000) |
1 billion |
| 6. Jean-Claude Duvalier |
President of Haiti (1971–1986) |
300 to 800 million |
| 7. Alberto Fujimori |
President of Peru (1990–2000) |
600 million |
| 8. Pavlo Lazarenko |
Prime Minister of Ukraine (1996–1997) |
114 to 200 million |
| 9. Arnoldo Alemán |
President of Nicaragua (1997–2002) |
100 million |
| 10. Joseph Estrada |
President of the Philippines (1998–2001) |
78 to 80 million |
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| Name |
Country |
In Power Since |
| 1. Omar al-Bashir |
Sudan |
1989 |
| 2. Kim Jong Il |
North Korea |
1994 |
| 3. Than Shwe |
Myanmar |
1992 |
| 4. Robert Mugabe |
Zimbabwe |
1980 |
| 5. Islam Karimov |
Uzbekistan |
1990 |
| 6. Hu Jintao |
China |
2002 |
| 7. King Abdullah |
Saudi Arabia |
1995 |
| 8. Saparmurat Niyazov |
Turkmenistan |
1990 |
| 9. Seyed Ali Khamane’i |
Iran |
1989 |
| 10. Teodoro Obiang Nguema |
Equatorial Guinea |
1979 |
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