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Vatican can’t take credit card payments – If you’re planning on visiting the Vatican any time soon, take plenty of cash for tickets and souvenirs. Vatican museums and shops have been unable to accept credit or debit card payments since Jan. 1, after the Bank of Italy prevented Deutsche Bank from providing the service due to concerns about financial oversight in the city-state, sources familiar with the matter told
CNNMoney.
Vatican can’t take credit card payments
Posted on January 4th, 2013
By Mark Thompson, CNN
Money
Allegory or Symbolism?
- No matter used in vernacular language or academic form of writing, ‘allegory’ and ‘symbolism’ are frequently confused and mistakenly understood. Both are closely related terms identified with carrying along a secondary gist underneath the surface meaning, creating ambiguity or a sort of puzzlement at times. Yet, while allegories are creatively designed to convey a moral message or lesson through a story often echoing a historical, cultural, or religious impression, symbols form an entirely different area of meaning through an object or an entity, but not a story.
Posted by Pouria on Dec 14, 2012
Did Russian Prime Minister Disclose Alien?
- Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has spoken about top secret files on aliens that may have landed in Russia. In footage recorded after a television interview, the former president joked that each Russian leader gets two folders with information about extraterrestrials that visited our planet — and stayed here..
Phantoms and Monsters
“God Particle” Found?
- Historic Milestone From Higgs Boson Hunters. Newfound particle may be at the core of existence. Teams working at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are more than 99 percent certain they’ve discovered the Higgs boson, aka the God particle—or at the least a brand-new particle exactly where they expected the Higgs to be.
The Avengers
- Marvel’s The Avengers is an American superhero film produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures, based on the Marvel Comics superhero team. The film has received positive reviews from most film critics and set numerous box office records, including the biggest opening weekend in North America.
Classical Studies
- Myth-OS is more than anomalous phenomena and weird news. We have now added “The Classics” to our Initiatives. The Classics, encompassing Classical Studies, is the branch of the Humanities comprising the culture of the ancient Mediterranean world.
http://myth-os.com/the-classics/
The Space Elevator
- Might certain reports of cows being lifted into the sky from rural farms be proof of untimely or covered up space elevator experiments? Competing space elevator projects are noticeably gathering pace.
http://myth-os.com/2012/02/18/cow-abductions-and-the-space-elevator/
The Gods vs. Aliens Debate
- Extraterrestrials allegedly taught humans the study of astronomy, geometry, and monolith construction. But why couldn’t they teach us the difference between imaginary gods and living aliens?
http://myth-os.com/2012/02/06/the-gods-vs-aliens-debate/
Entanglement Jump Room Mechanics 101
- While physicists and philosophers grapple with the implications for the nature of causation and the structure of the Universe, some physicists are busy putting entanglement to work in applications such as “teleporting” atoms and producing uncrackable encryption…
http://myth-os.com/asides/entanglement-jump-room-mechanics-101/
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