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Squirrels belong to a large family of small or medium-sized rodents called the Sciuridae. The family includes tree squirrels, ground squirrels, chipmunks, marmots (including woodchucks), flying squirrels, and prairie dogs. Squirrels are indigenous to the Americas, Eurasia, and Africa and have been introduced to Australia. Squirrels are first attested in the Eocene, about forty million years ago, and are most closely related to the mountain beaver and to dormice among living species...

Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. A wave of protests killed at least 68 people and left hundreds injured in Kyrgyzstan as the opposition seized government headquarters and pledged Thursday to address citizens' concerns. More than 500 people were also injured, said Elena Bayalinova, a spokeswoman for the Kyrgyz health ministry. The capital, Bishkek, was calm Thursday except for small groups of people chanting near the marble government office, known as the white house...

German company Das Rollende Hotel offers budget traveling all over the world in a bus-hotel called Rolling Hotel. The idea is that you actually never leave your hotel, hotel always comes with you. They use specially modified version of Mercedes bus. It can take 24 passengers. All you need is to buy a ticket and start your journey around the world...

Chocolate is a raw or processed food produced from the seed of the tropical Theobroma cacao tree. Cacao has been cultivated for at least three millennia in Mexico, Central and South America, with its earliest documented use around 1100 BC. The majority of the Mesoamerican people made chocolate beverages, including the Aztecs, who made it into a beverage known as xocolātl /ʃo.ko.laːtɬ/, a Nahuatl word meaning "bitter water"...

WonderCon is an annual comic book, science fiction, and motion picture convention, held in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1987. The convention was conceived by retailer John Barrett and originally held in the Oakland Convention Center, where it remained until 2003, when it moved to San Francisco's Moscone Center...

A POTD is an acronym for "Photo of the Day", "Picture of the Day", "Post of the Day" or "Poll of the Day". It is a term most commonly used by online digital photography communities as an honor to outstanding photos that are selected daily from among that community's membership. They can either be tagged as POTD or displayed in a special page on that site...