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The World’s 10 top ugly buildings and monuments

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

Written by Dyncpoope on November 14th, 2008 with no comments.
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Top Ten Evil People in the 20th Century

  1. Mao Tse Tung (China) killed 35 million people 1949-1976
  2. Joseph Stalin (USSR) killed 20 million people 1929-1953
  3. Adolph Hitler(Nazi Germany)-killed 11 million people 1939-1945
  4. Kim Il Sung (North Korea) killed 3 million people 1948-1994
  5. Mohamed Suharto (Indonesia) killed 2 million people 1967-1998
  6. Pol Pot (Cambodia)- killed 1.4 million people 1975-1979
  7. Theoniste Bagosara (Rwanda) killed 1 million people April-July 1994 
  8. Saddam Hussein (Iraq) killed 2 million people 1979-2003
  9. Ante Pavelic (Croatia) killed 300,000 people 1941-1944 
  10. Idi Amin (Uganda)-300,000 1971-1979

Written by admin on May 6th, 2007 with no comments.
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World’s Top Ten Most Expensive Cities in 2006

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

Written by admin on April 10th, 2007 with no comments.
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World’s Top Ten Largest Countries

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.

Written by admin on April 10th, 2007 with no comments.
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World’s Ten Most Corrupt Leaders

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

                                                                        
                                                                               
                                                                                             

Written by admin on March 4th, 2007 with no comments.
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World’s Worst Dictators, 2006

 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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