The prices of the Most Expensive houses in the U.S. have gone down due to the economic recession. If a house is priced over $100 million, will you still buy it?

Forbes released the 2009 America’s Most Expensive Homes. The list includes mansions, urban townhouses, monumental ski lodges and country estates.

Here they are, the Top 10, in photos.

1. $125 million — Fleur de Lys (Beverly Hills, California) — Suzanne Saperstein’s gem is aptly called the Fleur de Lys. Modeled after Louis XIV’s palace at Versailles, the 45,000-square-foot home took five years to build following Saperstein’s accumulation of five acres in Holmby Hills during the 1990s. Should strolling the grounds bore you, there is a 50-seat screening room and a library filled with first-edition books. Auto collectors will salivate over the nine-car garage.
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You do whatever it takes for your wedding to be the best that it can be, no matter how weird/strange/funny it can really become. But who cares? You just want to reminisce in the coming years, by looking at your weird wedding photos, the day you said “I do.”

Weddings should be memorable. If you think the best place to wed is underwater or under the tree dressed in Star Wars costumes, then be it. Do it.

Here are some funny wedding photos I found online. These may give you few wedding ideas if you are thinking of marrying soon.
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There was an email hoax before showing a list of IQ for the U.S. Presidents. The list showed Bill Clinton having the highest IQ (182) among all Presidents in U.S. history and George W. Bush having the lowest (91). But it was a fake list generated by a non-existing Lovenstein Institute.

However, in 2006, a study called “Presidential IQ, Openness, Intellectual Brilliance, and Leadership: Estimates and Correlations for 42 U.S. Chief Executives” published in the “Political Psychology” journal, estimated the IQs for all US presidents.

Here is the list of the Top 10 Highest IQs among US Presidents, averaged from two periods of biographical data, the first from birth to age 17 and the second from age 18 to age 26:

1. John Quincy Adams (1825-1829) — IQ = 175.0
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Dogs are man’s best friend, regardless of how they look. Even if some dog breeds look very ugly, they still are the friendliest animals a man could ever have. Which breed of dog do you own? Do you have the rarest dog breed?

Here is a list and photos of few rare dog breeds:

Rare dog breed: African Wild Dog
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What is the world’s biggest or largest flower? The record holder is the Titan Arum, or the “corpse flower.” When the flower is fully bloomed, it is said to smell like a rotting corpse. It is about 3m (10ft) tall and is native to Sumatra, Indonesia. The giant ‘corpse flower’ blooms only occasionally.
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