If this isn’t the opening scene of the next installment of ‘The Mummy,’ we don’t know what is.
After a group of suspected drug dealers attacked guards in the Amazon Basin, Brazilian Indian officials now can’t find one tribe that hasn’t ever had contact with the outside world. The concern is the the tribe’s first contact with the so-called civilized world wasn’t all that civilized.
From the country that brought you Machu Picchu comes “Christ of the Pacific”— a 120-foot statue of Jesus.
Just when you thought chocolate had reached its pinnacle, a rediscovered cacao bean has chefs downright giddy. And when chefs get all jazzed about a new ingredient, all us regular folks get to reap the benefits.
This is one of the most bizarre stories that NewsFeed has heard in a while (and trust us, we hear a lot of bizarre stories).
…And discover that 3,000-year-old music kind of stinks. Then again, in their defense, the recently rediscovered conch shells can only play a couple notes.
Some may not have heard of him, but 74-year-old Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa has repeatedly been hailed one of South America’s most influential writers.
The fossil of a giant penguin that lived 36 million years ago has been discovered in Peru.
Just about everything about this story is disturbing. (via BBC)
Sounds like every girl’s dream guy: he’s tall; he’s on the cover of newspapers around the world; he confessed to, then denied, a murder. No wonder he’s receiving love letters in prison.
