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Stonehenge is ‘pointless’, Sydney Harbour Bridge is ‘unimpressive’ and Mount Rushmore is ‘obnoxious’: Fifteen popular tourist attractions that for some just didn’t live up to the hype

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There’s no pleasing some people.

As scathing reviews for some of the world’s most iconic and popular tourist attractions reveal.

The world’s tallest tower? ‘Underwhelming views’. Sydney Harbour Bridge? ‘Unimpressive’. Mount Rushmore? ‘Obnoxious’.

And don’t even get these disgruntled travellers started on the Empire State Building, Stonehenge, Bondi Beach and Checkpoint Charlie.

Scroll down for reviews of 15 tourist attractions that proved huge disappointments. And at the bottom, vote in our poll for the tourist attraction in the list that

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The Student Crackdown Didn’t Start Last Week. Months of Repression Got Us Here.

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We are witnessing the culmination of a months-long effort by universities to smother pro-Palestinian activism.

A pro-Palestinian protester is arrested at the University of Texas in Austin on April 29, 2024.

(Suzanne Cordeiro / AFP via Getty Images)

This piece was written by Alaa Hajyahia, Rachel Vogel, Saifeldeen Zihiri, Chloe Miller, Mehrdad Dariush, Chisato Kimura, Alaa Hachem, and Andrew Rikard, all of whom are students at Yale Law School.

Over the past two weeks, US college campuses have

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Tears of Cavalli’s final companion: Playboy model Sandra Nilsson, 38, spent a decade by the side of her ‘favourite designer’, 83, who bought her a private island – and once she said she didn’t care about looks in a man

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The fashion world has been left reeling following the death of design icon Roberto Cavalli, who died on Friday aged 83.

Yesterday, a host of celebrity mourners came to remember the legendary designer, as he was laid to rest in his home town of Florence.

Among them was his long-term girlfriend and Swedish former model Sandra Nilsson.

Sandra, 38, was photographed appearing bereft at the funeral, with one photo appearing to show her leaning in towards the hearse carrying her

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JoJo Siwa puts on VERY raunchy show including kissing background dancer in front of her MOM at Miami Beach Pride… after admitting she didn’t invent ‘gay pop’

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JoJo Siwa put on a very raunchy show with her mother sitting in the front row just days after backtracking on claims that she invented the ‘gay pop’ music genre.

The 20-year-old multihyphenate – born Joelle Joanie Siwa –  put on quite the naughty performance in front of her 49-year-old mother Jessalyn Siwa at Miami Beach Pride on Sunday night.

JoJo did not just dazzle the audience with her incredible dance moves as she could be seen kissing one of

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Viewers in tears as Derek Draper speaks for the first time on camera about his Covid battle before Kate Garraway describes the moment he passed away in final documentary: ‘I regret every minute I didn’t hold his hand’

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Kate Garraway’s final documentary made for emotional viewing as the presenter chronicled her late husband Derek Draper’s final year of life on Tuesday evening. 

The presenter explained that it was Derek’s choice to make the final documentary, Kate Garraway: Derek’s Story, after Kate previously documented her husband’s illness since he was first diagnosed with long Covid back in 2020. 

The former political lobbyist is one of the worst affected cases of Covid in the UK, and as the programme began,

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After years of binge drinking, ANTONIA HOYLE didn’t touch a drop for two years. So what made her reach for a glass again? The answer will surprise you…

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Handing back the clementine tart to my dinner party hostess, I tell her I want a bigger slice. Hardly polite behaviour, especially as I’ve just told her that when we first met, I thought she was a b***h. But after six glasses of wine, I don’t care.

Alcohol has freed me from my responsibilities as a friend, mother, daughter and wife so that I’m guffawing at my own wisecracks, impervious to the feelings of others. In my drunken parallel world,

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How your memory can trick you into anything… even confessing to a murder you didn’t commit

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Recollections may vary. So said Queen Elizabeth in response to allegations made by Harry and Meghan in their interview with Oprah Winfrey. Of course, I have no idea what did or did not happen behind closed palace doors. But, having studied memory for 25 years, what I do know is that recollections really can vary. Two people can remember the same event in completely different ways.

In the words of Obi-Wan Kenobi, the all-wise Jedi knight in Star Wars: ‘Many

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Asylum Seekers Didn’t Create the ‘Migrant Crisis’

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When the mayor of New York, of all places, warned that a recent influx of asylum seekers would destroy his city, something didn’t add up.

“I said it last year when we had 15,000, and I’m telling you now at 110,000. The city we knew, we’re about to lose,” Eric Adams urged in September. By the end of the year, more than 150,000 migrants had arrived. Still, the mayor’s apocalyptic prediction didn’t square with New York’s past experience. How could

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Why I was devastated when the doctor told me I DIDN’T have cancer: Author Wendy Mitchell, 68, describes how she longed for any escape from the grip of dementia

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A couple of years ago I started losing weight very rapidly, for no apparent reason. The pounds were falling off me, even as I waited for an appointment to see my GP.

My clothes no longer fitted: the waist of my trousers suddenly sat on my hips. I thought, ‘This is it, not only has some disease invaded my brain, but now my body, too.’

I was convinced I had cancer. ‘You know I don’t want treatment?’ I told my

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They were born when George V was on the throne, washing machines didn’t exist and women couldn’t vote… So what life advice do these extraordinary centenarians have for young women today?

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‘I never expected to live so long, and I don’t take it for granted, even now,’ says Lea Glaskie who will celebrate her 106th birthday in February.

Born in 1918, a year before the first commercial flight in Europe (from London to Paris, taking two and a half hours) and in an era when central heating, double glazing, fridges and washing machines didn’t exist, and most houses only had outside toilets, she has lived through seismic changes in British society

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