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Amazing Photos from Skywalking Russian Teens

By UCN on May 7, 2012 1:28 PM

Russian student Marat Dupri, 19, bought a Canon camera 18 months ago and immediately decided to start taking shots of beautiful views. (Caters News)

If you thought planking was a fad to be reckoned with, take a look at this new photographic trend popular amongst Russian teens.

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Vogue Magazine Banning Too Young, Too Thin Models

By UCN on May 4, 2012 1:08 PM

In this Feb. 15, 2012, file photo, models have their make-up finalized under runway light before the J. Mendel Fall 2012 collection is modeled during Fashion Week, in New York. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, file)

Vogue magazine, perhaps the world's top arbiter of style, is making a statement about its own models: Too young and too thin is no longer in.

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Thomas Kinkade, Known as 'Painter of Light', Dies at 54 of Natural Causes

By UCN on April 7, 2012 2:32 AM

Kinkade in January, 2005. Thomas Kinkade at the Thomas Kinkade company's video/ film studio in Morgan Hill. Kinkade grew up in Placerville. (Michael A. Jones / Sacramento Bee)

Artist Thomas Kinkade, whose brushwork paintings of idyllic landscapes, cottages and churches have been big sellers for dealers across the United States, died Friday, a family spokesman said.

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Huge Lego Church In the Netherlands Was Built for Public Events

By UCN on February 21, 2012 4:05 PM

Rejoice! For the Church of the Holy Brick is here. Called Abondantus Gigantus, it was built in 2011 around a 20m spire for the Grenswerk Festival, in the town of Enschede, Netherlands.

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How Unbelieving Artists Succeed at Making Religious Art

By UCN on February 4, 2012 2:18 AM

Rarely have I seen a spectacle so disheartening as the cheerless, trash-strewn one-room flat that serves as the set for the Roundabout Theatre Company's off-Broadway revival of John Osborne's "Look Back in Anger."

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Amazing Photos from Skywalking Russian Teens

Vogue Magazine Banning Too Young, Too Thin Models

Thomas Kinkade, Known as 'Painter of Light', Dies at 54 of Natural Causes

Huge Lego Church In the Netherlands Was Built for Public Events

How Unbelieving Artists Succeed at Making Religious Art