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On a Georgia Island, a Lot of Good Food and Plenty of Nothing
Cumberland Island offers memorable meals, fine fishing, wild horses, empty beaches and a rich history.
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The Wildest Party on Earth
The wildest rock-climbing event in the world happens annually in the Ozarks of Arkansas, in a u-shaped canyon with enough routes for 24 straight hours of nonstop ascents. They call it Horseshoe Hell, but don't be fooled: for outdoor athletes who love physical challenges with some partying thrown in, it's heaven.
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Italy’s Struggling Economy Has World’s Healthiest People
When it comes to living a long life, Italy is the place to be. The high-heeled boot surrounded by five seas is ranked the healthiest country on Earth in the Bloomberg Global Health Index of 163 countries. A baby born in Italy can expect to live to be an octogenarian. But 2,800 miles south in Sierra Leone, the average newborn will die by 52. While Italy is among the most developed countries, growth has stagnated for decades, almost 40 percent of its youngsters are out of jobs and it’s saddled with one of the world’s highest debt loads relative to the size of its economy.
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For 15 Years, New Orleans Was Divided Into Three Separate Cities
In 1803, when the United States bought New Orleans, along with the rest of the land in the Louisiana Purchase, the city had only about 8,000 people living in it. Planned on a tight grid, the city stretched just eleven blocks along a curve of the Mississippi River and six blocks back from the levee, to Rampart Street.
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Saving New Zealand's murder capital: 'We don't want to be defined by death'
Ringed by golden beaches and temperate Pacific seas, Kaitaia is unconscionably pretty, dotted with flaming red pohutukawa trees and blessed by year-round blue skies. The town of 5,000 people on the northern tip of New Zealand’s North Island should be known as a holiday resort, but instead it has been dubbed the murder capital of New Zealand after four homicides and six suicides in a single year.
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No Man Will Shake Me From This Land
Dr. Bones makes the case why no election will drive him from the shores of this continent…
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The village that just wants to share
An abandoned military village in Germany is getting a new lease of life as a hippy commune fit for the 21st Century. Patrick Henry Village, near the German city of Heidelberg, was not born to hippy ideals. In fact, it was opened by the US Army as a military base after World War Two, and was described by those who lived and worked there as a tiny slice of 1950s American transported to Europe.
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Here’s What Western Accounts of the Kowloon Walled City Don’t Tell You
“If the energy of young designers in both Hong Kong and abroad were focused less on criticizing places that are actually doing fine, there are real urban and social problems in Hong Kong that are currently, like the Walled City once was, being neglected…” By Rory Stott.
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This Military Base Is Where China Blasts Humans Into Space
Take a look inside.
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Shani Shingnapur: The Village Without Doors
About 300 km east of Mumbai, in the remote Indian village of Shani Shingnapur, crime is a concept so alien that villagers here have stopped guarding their houses, their properties and their valuables. Nobody locks their cars and motorbikes anymore. Shopkeepers leave cash in unlocked drawers overnight, and housewives keep jewelry in unlocked boxes, inside houses that have no doors —just a wooden door frame with a curtain drawn across to protect the privacy of the residents.
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Tsunami of stars and gas produces dazzling eye-shaped feature in galaxy
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have discovered a tsunami of stars and gas that is crashing midway through the disk of a spiral galaxy known as IC 2163. This colossal wave of material - which was triggered when IC 2163 recently sideswiped another spiral galaxy dubbed NGC 2207 - produced dazzling arcs of intense star formation that resemble a pair of eyelids.
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Exploring Mexico’s Zone of Silence, Where Radio Signals Fail and Meteorites Crash
The Mexican version of the Bermuda Triangle has its fair share of alien rumors. By T.E. Wilson.
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The pyramid at the end of the world
In rural North Dakota, the long shadow cast by nuclear weapons and the Cold War is not as far in the past as we might like to think. By Elmo Keep.
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Mark Twain Has a Historic Haunted Mansion That Offers Spooky Ghost Tours
Iconic American author Mark Twain, best known for his stories about Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, has more than just books as a claim to fame. A lesser-known aspect of Twain is that his former residence is haunted. By Sara Barnes.
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Living in China’s Expanding Deserts
People on the edges of the country’s vast seas of sand are being displaced by climate change. By Josh Haner, Edward Wong, Derek Watkins and Jeremy White.
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Lake Nyos
[Menchum, Cameroon:] Deadliest lake in the world suffocated over 1,746 people in one night.
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Juche Tower
A highly symbolic tower in honor of Supreme Leader Kim Il-sung's personal philosophy.
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The Mother Tree
This spiritual landmark for practicers of Shamanism is drenched in milk and vodka and covered in blue scarves.
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On the Trail of Nabokov in the American West
On his cross-country trips chasing butterflies and researching “Lolita,” the Russian-born novelist saw more of the United States than did Fitzgerald, Kerouac or Steinbeck. By Landon Y. Jones (May 24, 2016)
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Space Engine – the universe simulator
[Windows Only] SpaceEngine is realistic virtual Universe in your computer. You can travel from star to star and from galaxy to galaxy, landing on any planets, moons and asteroids and explore alien landscapes, you can change the speed of time flow and observe celestial phenomena. All transitions are completely seamless, the universe has a size of billions of light-years across and contains billions of planetary systems. Procedural generation is based on real scientific knowledge, so SpaceEngine depicts the universe the way it is thought by modern science...
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