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The figures of the Bulgarian liberation heroes Vassil Levski and Hristo Botev will join the collection of the Sank Petersburg's museum of wax figures. Currently the museum is presenting in Bulgaria's old capital city Veliko Tarnovo an exposition of 30 fi
The Orthodox Church in Bulgaria is celebrating Friday the St. John's Day in honour of Saint John the Baptist who baptized Jesus.
Bulgaria's cleverest woman says she has been inundated with job offers following reports she couldn't find work, Daily Times reported. Daniela Simidchieva, 44, has three degrees and her 192 IQ matches that of two-time Nobel Prize winner Marie Curie.
People born on January 31 or May 31 would lose their birthdays, according to a new calendar, designed by the American physicist Dick Henry.
A Brazilian company is launching an exclusive chewing gum for dogs, Ananova reported.
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Radio waves from mobile phones harm the human body's cells and damage DNA, recent studies show. Despite the findings scientists point out that people show not be worried, as the study did not constantly find evidence of damage.
After a 25-year unscheduled delay, the sci-fi novel "Timeship" by Bulgarian writer Boris Belovarski will finally be published in the United States in May 2005. First written in 1980 when the author was only 19, the manuscript was confiscated by the Bulga
The colourful snails, exhibited in open air in the centre of Sofia in the end of 2004, will be sold at an auction and the funds will be donated for children in need. Bulgarian artists turned 29 fiber-glass snails of weight 30 kg and height 1.
The Christ-aged Georgi Todorov of varna was the man to deliver the cross from the sea waters this year, following the tradition on St. Jordan's Day.
The first solo CD of the Bulgarian 12-year-old pianist Asen Tanchev has been launched on the Bulgarian market.
Gardeners in Bulgaria's coastal resort of Balchik have grown a giant lemon, media disclosed. The piece weights 1.
Bulgarian art experts confirmed that the precious canvas found in the southern city Stara Zagora was painted by Italian Baroque Era Painter Lodovico Cigoli, local 24 Hours newspaper reported. The canvas was found in a private house in Stara Zagora on Oct
A gold treasure dated back to the times of Troy, which was recently unearthed at an unquoted location near Karlovo's "Valley of the Kings", has already taken its place among the exhibits of National History Museum. The set of 450 gold artifacts and jewel
Laura Petkova, born a minute after New Year advent on January 1 is Bulgaria's BABY 2005, as the lot fell on her on Tuesday. The small lady competed with a boy and a girl from different Bulgarian towns who also took first breath in the first minute of 200
A 67-year-old man had a 9.14 promilles blood alcohol level when he got crushed by a truck at the end of December, police say.
One of Japan's celebrity pop musicians - Miyazawa - will perform live in Bulgaria for the first time this February. The former vocalist of The Boom has been climbing high on Japanese music charts for some 15 years.
A political party aimed to bring together Big Brother fans was inaugurated in Sofia on Monday. The founder - Atanass Panayotov - gave the new formation the name Big Brother National Movement, apparently with a wink to the ruling Simeon II National Moveme
Bulgarian eighth-graders saw the largest declines in average math and science scores, followed by their peers in Sweden and Norway, according to the 2003 Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), cited by the Washington Times.
A gigantic rooster made of ice perched in the central square in Lithuania's capital Vilnius to celebrate the incoming New Year, which according to the Chinese calendar is the Year of the Rooster.
A total of 37 calls have been registered within the sixth national campaign "BABY 2005" of the Bulgarian "9 months" magazine. In the first minute of the new 2005 two girls were born in the towns of Lovetch and Sofia and one boy took his first breath in P
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