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(Hohhot) Hohhot is the capital city of the Inner Mongolia region of northern China, and the home of Anda Union, a 10-piece band who have set out to preserve Mongolian culture with its stirring musical styles that should prove remarkably accessible to western audiences. Many of their melodies sound as sturdy as great Celtic folk themes, while the fiddle-backed Give You a Rose sounds strangely like an east European dance tune. The obvious comparison is with those excellent Beijing-based Mongolian folk-rockers Hanggai, but Anda Union take a more traditional, acoustic approach, matching their sometimes growled and eerie throat singing techniques against morin khuur (horse head) fiddles, flute and Mongolian percussion – and with no guitars or keyboards. They are fine singers as well as instrumentalists, and demonstrate their seven-part harmonies on the complex and gently dramatic The Legend of the Swan Brothers and the epic Genghis Khan. They show off their instrumental skills on Galloping...

(John Hinderaker) I am pretty sure this is not a parody, but rather a straight news story about an effort to Occupy Darien, Connecticut: First Day of Occupy Darien Draws Small Crowd: The first day of the Occupy Darien demonstration got off to a slow start at a wet Tilley Park in Darien on Wednesday morning with about 10 protesters coming out for the event. Cole Stangler of New Canaan was the

All other Christian Churches should see this as a test trial in the reunification of Christianity - Colin Bruce Milne

And now we know who is responsible for the $200 million in US aid that the 'Palestinian Authority' did not get over the weekend: Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fl), the chairwoman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, the chairwoman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, is holding back nearly $200 million in humanitarian aid to the

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Our modest, self-effacing President went to CIA headquarters on Friday to praise the organization for its work in the bin Laden raid.

The Libyan rebels live public lives on Facebook and Twitter, love rap music, "Dancing With the Stars" and "American Idol."