diff --git a/recipes/national_geographic_mag.recipe b/recipes/national_geographic_mag.recipe
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--- a/recipes/national_geographic_mag.recipe
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-from calibre.web.feeds.recipes import BasicNewsRecipe
-
-class NGM(BasicNewsRecipe):
-
-    title       = 'National Geographic Magazine'
-    __author__  = 'Krittika Goyal'
-    description = 'National Geographic Magazine'
-    timefmt = ' [%d %b, %Y]'
-    language = 'en'
-
-    no_stylesheets = True
-    auto_cleanup = True
-    auto_cleanup_keep = '//div[@class="featurepic"]'
-
-    def nejm_get_index(self):
-        soup = self.index_to_soup('http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/')
-        a = soup.find('div', id='current_issue').find('a', href=True)
-        return self.index_to_soup('http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com' + a['href'])
-
-    # To parse artice toc
-    def parse_index(self):
-            soup = self.nejm_get_index()
-            tocfull = soup.find('div', attrs={'class':'coltoc'})
-
-            toc = tocfull.find('div', attrs={'class':'more_section'})
-
-            articles = []
-            feeds = []
-            section_title = 'Features'
-            for x in toc.findAll(True):
-                if x.name == 'a':
-                    # Article found
-                    title = self.tag_to_string(x)
-                    url = x.get('href', False)
-                    if not url or not title:
-                        continue
-                    url = 'http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com' + url
-                    self.log('\t\tFound article:', title)
-                    self.log('\t\t\t', url)
-                    articles.append({'title': title, 'url':url,
-                        'description':'', 'date':''})
-            feeds.append((section_title, articles))
-
-            art1 = tocfull.findAll('a')[1]
-            art1_title = self.tag_to_string(art1.find('div', attrs={'class': 'toched'}))
-            art1_url = art1.get('href', False)
-            art1_url = 'http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com' + art1_url
-            art1feed = {'title': art1_title, 'url':art1_url,
-                        'description':'', 'date':''}
-            feeds.append(('Cover Story', [art1feed]))
-
-            return feeds
diff --git a/recipes/nationalgeographic.recipe b/recipes/nationalgeographic.recipe
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-__license__   = 'GPL v3'
-__copyright__ = '2010, Hiroshi Miura <miurahr@linux.com>'
-'''
-nationalgeographic.com
-'''
-
-from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe
-import re
-
-class NationalGeographicNews(BasicNewsRecipe):
-    title          = u'National Geographic News'
-    oldest_article = 7
-    language = 'en'
-    max_articles_per_feed = 100
-    remove_javascript = True
-    no_stylesheets = True
-    use_embedded_content = False
-    auto_cleanup = True
-
-    feeds          = [(u'news', u'http://feeds.nationalgeographic.com/ng/News/News_Main')]
-
-    def parse_feeds(self):
-        feeds = BasicNewsRecipe.parse_feeds(self)
-        for curfeed in feeds:
-            delList = []
-            for a,curarticle in enumerate(curfeed.articles):
-                if re.search(r'ads\.pheedo\.com', curarticle.url):
-                    delList.append(curarticle)
-            if len(delList)>0:
-                for d in delList:
-                    index = curfeed.articles.index(d)
-                    curfeed.articles[index:index+1] = []
-        return feeds