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A few weeks back a team of researchers shared interesting new evidence that they believe reveals the location of Amelia Earhart's missing plane. The team, who are all members of The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR), showed sonar ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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Yet More Compelling Evidence That Amelia Earhart's Plane Has Been Found
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A few weeks back a team of researchers shared interesting new evidence that they believe reveals the location of Amelia Earhart's missing plane. The team, who are all members of The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR), showed sonar ...Scientists Preserve Cannons That Started The Civil War
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Historic cannons from Fort Moultrie, South Carolina, that date to the Civil War have been meticulously conserved and returned to the fort, the National Park Service announced. Some of these big guns, weighing up to 15,000 pounds each, were used to ...Norwegian Scientists Plan To Freeze Themselves In Polar Ice
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A hundred and twenty years ago, Norwegian scientist Fridtjof Nansen started a journey that made him one of the greatest explorers of all time. He set out to purposely get his ship frozen in the polar ice.
The reason? To study polar currents. His ship, ...Strolling Through Venice Without A Camera
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I've wanted to visit Venice all my life. Who wouldn't? It has the reputation of being the most beautiful city in the world, and with my love of architecture my first glimpse of it was going to be a lifelong memory.
After a rainy week in Slovenia, I ...Lost City Uncovered In Cambodia
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A 1,200-year-old city has been uncovered by archaeologists in a thick, mountainous jungle in Cambodia, Australia's Fairfax Media has reported. An international team of researchers using helicopter-mounted laser-imaging technology discovered dozens of ...Keeneland: Thoroughbred Horses, Free Coffee And Kentucky's Best Cheap Breakfast
It was a rainy Monday, just after 7 a.m., when I pulled into the parking lot at Keeneland, one of the nation's most venerable thoroughbred racetracks. I had read that watching the horses morning workout was one of the best free things to do in Lexington, Kentucky, but on a ...Augmented Reality App Shows Rome's Colosseum, In All Of Its Glory
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Augmented Reality apps on our smartphones and tablets can do some pretty amazing things. The basic premise is that these apps use our device's camera to show us the world around us while also overlaying information that may be of interest. For example, AR apps ...UNESCO Reports Damage To Timbuktu Worse Than Previously Reported
Emilio Labrador
A team from UNESCO has visited Timbuktu in Mali to make its first on-the-ground assessment of the damage caused by last year's occupation by the Islamist group Ansar Dine (Defenders of Faith).
The group took over Timbuktu in April 2012 and imposed a ...Lake Bled: A Tourist Trap In Slovenia You Really Must See
Sean McLachlan
If you don't already know that Lake Bled is the most popular tourist attraction in Slovenia you'll know it the moment you arrive. There's a casino. There's a Shamrock Irish Pub. There's even one of those tourist buses made up to look like a choo-choo train. ...A Kid Friendly Midwest Getaway: See The Freaks At Circus World In Baraboo
Five years ago, when my wife and I had our first child, our lives as travelers changed. We still hit the road just as often as before, but now we find ourselves seeking out zoos and playgrounds and children's museums and a host of other kid friendly attractions that we never ...Video: 100 Years Of Climbing Mt. McKinley
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Standing 20,320 feet in height, Mt. McKinley is the tallest mountain in North America and one of the most challenging climbs in the entire world. While it doesn't rival the big Himalayan peaks in terms of altitude, it more than makes up for it with a number ...Smithsonian Relocates Slave Cabin To Be Centerpiece Of Upcoming Exhibition
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The Smithsonian Institution has received a unique donation – an intact slave cabin from a plantation in South Carolina. The cabin, which was on the grounds of the Point of Pines Plantation on Edisto ...Like Castles? Go To Slovenia
The little nation of Slovenia is situated on a crossroads. On the southeastern edge of the Alps and on the way to the rest of the Balkans and to central Europe, it's seen more than its fair share of invading armies.
No wonder, then, that this country that's slightly ...Coopers Rock: Morgantown, West Virginia
I have lost count of how many times I have been here. I started coming to Coopers Rock State Forest in Morgantown, West Virginia, when my family first moved to the town, which was seven years ago. The 12,000-some acres of beautiful hiking trails begin just a couple exits ...Ljubljana: Why Slovenia's Cool Capital Needs To Be On Your Bucket List
Sean McLachlan
Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia, has been trumpeted by travel writers for a good 10 years now, yet this artsy little city of 270,000 still doesn't get overrun with tourists. Perhaps it's because it's surrounded by better-known countries like Italy and ...Cycling The Niagara River Recreation Trail: Ice Wine, War Of 1812 History, And A Back Door To Niagara Falls (Part 2)
Click here to read part one of this story. In recent weeks, U.S. and Canadian officials have been fighting over a development issue at the Peace Bridge, but when I drove over the bridge, built to commemorate 100 years of peaceful relations between U.S. and Canada, one warm ...Cycling The Niagara River Recreation Trail: Ice Wine, War of 1812 History And A Back Door To Niagara Falls (Part 1)
I must have been absent from school the day we learned about the War of 1812. Growing up, history was my favorite subject, but as I sat in an office interviewing Paul Dyster, the mayor of Niagara Falls, New York, who mentioned upcoming events to commemorate the bicentennial ...US National Trail System Expands By 650 Miles
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Last week – just in time for National Trails Day – newly appointed U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell announced the designation of 28 new National Recreation Trails located in 18 states across the country. These new additions ...Costa Concordia, Final Report: The Captain Did It
Costa Concordia grounded off the coast of Italy in January 2012, where the cruise ship still sits today. Removal of the ship is a well-defined work in progress, now over halfway complete. Placing blame for the grounding, which resulted in the death of 32 people, is also ...Largest Lincoln Exhibit Ever Opens In California
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The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation & Library just debuted a new exhibit on the most famous Republican. A. Lincoln: From Railsplitter to Rushmore opened Saturday and will run through September 31. With 250 items culled from major collectors, ...
