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Coming up in less than a month, America celebrates its Independence Day as fireworks light up the sky at events around the country. This year, the Fourth of July falls on a Thursday. That might mean an extra day off work for some, returning on Friday to end ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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One Day Not Enough To Celebrate Independence Day? Take A Week
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Coming up in less than a month, America celebrates its Independence Day as fireworks light up the sky at events around the country. This year, the Fourth of July falls on a Thursday. That might mean an extra day off work for some, returning on Friday to end ...UNESCO Considering Adding Great Barrier Reef To List Of Endangered Sites
Richard Ling via WikiMedia
This past Sunday, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) kicked off its annual conference in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Over the next ten days, the 1300 delegates in attendance will discuss which new locations from ...Bikers In Paris: Artcrank Poster Show Comes To The City Of Light
Adam Turman/Artcrank
Love bicycles? Love good graphic design? Love transportation-inspired art? You'll love Artcrank.
The point of Artcrank is simple: get artists that have a love of bicycles to produce unique posters for shows in bike capitals around the world. The ...2013 Grand Canyon Star Party Begins Today
Photo Courtesy of Tyler Nordgren
The 23rd annual Grand Canyon Star Party begins today and will run through Saturday, June 15. The annual event, which draws amateur astronomers from across the country, is a celebration of the incredible night skies that can be found above the ...Video Of The Day: Sleep No More NYC
It's not every day that I hop onto Gadling in an effort to persuade our readers to go out and purchase tickets for an event that will make a place come to life in a new way, the kind of way that enhances travel and the cultural experiences that come with it, but when I do, ...
Festivals And Events Coming Up This Month
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Summer weather brings festivals and events that range from open-air concerts and outdoor car shows to group hikes and more. In June, there are a number of notable summer festivals and events. Some are held annually, others are starting up for the first time ...Celebrate World Oceans Day With A Live Tour Of The Great Barrier Reef
Kraig Becker
This coming Saturday, June 8, is World Oceans Day, a global event designed to celebrate the important role that the oceans play in keeping our planet a vibrant place for us to live. Throughout the day there will be hundreds of events taking place across the ...Saddle Up And Bike Under The Stars In These Cities This Summer
Nick Nunns, Flickr
Somewhere in Chicago there's a personal tiki bar on wheels. I'm not talking about the rental "cycle pubs" popular in cities and hipster burgs. This is a five-top cocktail table under a thatched roof, hitched to a bicycle. It passed me around midnight on ...Waikiki Classic Gives Girls A Chance To Connect With Surf Culture
Tom Servais
Next weekend, on June 8-9, the third annual Waikiki Classic surfing competition will take place on Queens Beach in Hawaii. The event, which is sponsored by Roxy, will feature some of the biggest names in women's surfing today, including World Longboard Champion ...Take A Hike! (For National Trails Day)
American Hiking Society
The American Hiking Society has declared today National Trails Day across the U.S. in an effort to encourage all of us to get outside and visit our favorite trail. This annual celebration of the outdoors serves as a reminder of the fantastic natural ...Summer County Fairs Showcase Local Community Spirit
randychiu/ Flickr
County fair season is coming up quickly, showcasing the work of local farmers and ranchers around the United States. Prize livestock and winning agriculture entries will be on display, but many visitors to county fairs have little interest in that sort of ...Gorizia: Italy's Overlooked Historic Border City
Sean McLachlan
Visitors to Italy tend to skip Gorizia. Tucked away at the northeast edge of the country on the border with Slovenia, this small city tends to get bypassed on the way to Trieste or Slovenia.
I would have never gone there myself except that I was a guest ...Video: Red Bull's Cliff Diving World Series Kicks Off In France
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For its fifth year, the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series has begun, offering daredevils around the world the chance to compete for a championship title and bragging rights.
Held for the fourth time in La Rochelle, France, the competition lasts for five months and ...
Learning To Dance In St. Petersburg
Flickr, dobrych
Twenty-seven steps. That's how far I make it from the St. Petersburg train station before I have my first regrets about visiting Russia in January. In those 27 steps, I slip and stumble and soak both my feet and my suitcase as I drag it from puddle to ...Mesilla, New Mexico: Discovering A Different Side Of The Southwest
Alex Briseño, Flickr
A couple of weeks ago, I traveled to El Paso on short notice for a magazine assignment. I found it enjoyable, but on my final day, I was itching to get out of the city limits and explore before my evening flight. Every local I talked to gave me ...Amazing Time-Lapse Video Of Vivid Sydney Light Show
"TIMELAPSE - Vivid Sydney 2013 Launch" from Vivid Sydney on Vimeo.
The video above captures an incredible light show happening at the Sydney Opera House as part of the fifth annual Vivid Sydney festival.
The largest light, music and ideas festival in the Southern ...
Australia's 2013 Great Victorian Bike Ride Heads Down The Ocean Road
Great Victoran Bike Ride
We've noted before just how popular cycling holidays have become in recent years as active and adventurous travelers look for new ways to explore their favorite destinations. Few of those holidays can rival Australia's annual Great Victorian Bike ...Coney Island 2013: Weathering The Storm
A photo of Coney Island from May 2013
When the first structures were being built in Coney Island in the 1840s, the surrounding community was in uproar. Residents wanted to preserve the land's natural beauty. In the early 1900s, the City of New York endeavored to condemn ...Bun Snatching At The Bun Festival In Hong Kong
istolethetv, Flickr
On May 17, a good chunk of East Asia had a day off to celebrate the Buddha's birthday (Southeast Asia will celebrate it next week). It happens that in Hong Kong the Enlightened One's birthday coincides each year with a Taoist celebration called the Bun ...Outdoor Rise Festival Brings Adventure To New York City
Outdoor Rise
Residents of New York City who are looking to put a little outdoor adventure into their lives will be pleased to learn of an upcoming event that aims to help them do just that. The first ever Outdoor Rise festival is scheduled to take place June 17-23 and will ...
