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by Elizabeth Seward (RSS feed) (5 days ago)
Nearly three hours past the scheduled landing time, my flight from Lisbon to the island of Sal, Cape Verde (Ilha Do Sal), is now taxiing to the gate. The local time is almost 3 in the morning and I've just spent the last 18 hours in Lisbon, where it's 5 in the morning. My ...
by Sean McLachlan (RSS feed) (5 days ago)
University of Leicester
Archaeologists from the University of Leicester in England have discovered a strange coffin at the same site where they discovered the remains of King Richard III earlier this year.
The team was digging in the foundations of the Franciscan friary ...
by Sean McLachlan (RSS feed) (5 days ago)
Michael Day
It's one of the most popular attractions in Pyongyang, North Korea, and with a new coat of paint it's ready to attract more admiring crowds for a brainwashing display of jingoism.
The USS Pueblo is a U.S. Navy spy ship captured by the North Korean Navy in ...
by Dave Seminara (RSS feed) (10 days ago)
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by Laurel Miller (RSS feed) (11 days ago)
Laurel Miller, Gadling
Bolivia has a turbulent, often tragic history. Rich in natural resources, the country was plundered by the Spaniards for silver and gold in the 15th century, exploiting the indigenous Quechua and Aymara peoples in the process. Yet, Bolivia has managed ...
by Dave Seminara (RSS feed) (13 days ago)
Should a town have the right to display looted antiquities stolen by one of its residents? According to an intriguing piece by Suzanne Daley in The New York Times this morning, the mayor of tiny Aranda de Moncayo, Spain, population 200, thinks they should. A 60-year-old ...
by Elizabeth Seward (RSS feed) (14 days ago)
I had only been talking to Brooklyn's Richard Kessler for a minute or two before he began telling me about his personal passion project: protecting a rare view of the Empire State Building, the Brooklyn Mirador.
The view of the iconic building from the edge of Prospect ...
by Meg Nesterov (RSS feed) (16 days ago)
Chip Conley, Fest300
Do you travel for food, culture or history? You can find all that and more at a festival, and a website launched this week aims to connect travelers with some of the world's most unique, exciting and unusual festivals. Fest300 is part practical ...
by Sean McLachlan (RSS feed) (18 days ago)
Sean McLachlan
There's a well-worn tourist trail in Spain: Madrid for the art, Barcelona for the nightlife and the Costa del Sol for the beaches. All of these are great, but there are plenty of other spots that often slip under the radar. Valencia, for example, gets plenty ...
by Libby Zay (RSS feed) (18 days ago)
Rick Bowmer, AP
Dinosaur lovers will be flocking to the University of Utah in Salt Lake City to check out a new discovery, a big-nosed, horned-faced dinosaur found in what is now Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. Here's some stats about this new species, now named ...
by Sean McLachlan (RSS feed) (19 days ago)
Jon Sullivan
A group of about 40 drunks in County Donegal, Ireland, went on a rampage at a prehistoric fort, harassing tourists, defecating in a holy well, and removing stones, Irish Central reports.
The incident occurred at Grianan Fort, a stone ring fort dating to ...
by Kraig Becker (RSS feed) (19 days ago)
Kraig Becker
Australia's vast and wild Northern Territory holds a number of wonders for visitors to discover, not the least of which is Kakadu National Park. Spread out across more than 7600 square miles, the park is the true embodiment of the Outback with a rugged and ...
by Elizabeth Seward (RSS feed) (19 days ago)
I didn't know about Sal until a couple weeks before I departed for a trip to the island, at the invitation of a friend who wanted to go there for the purpose of diving and also wanted to have a travel partner in tow. I knew little about the country of Cape Verde. Between ...
by Sean McLachlan (RSS feed) (20 days ago)
Wikimedia Commons
A graveyard containing the remains of four vampires has been excavated by a team of archaeologists in Poland, Polskie Radio reports.
The archaeologists were excavating ahead of the construction of a new road in Gliwice, southern Poland, when they ...
by Chris Owen (RSS feed) (21 days ago)
Cliff1066/Flickr
The Douglas DC-7 made history in 1953 flying the first non-stop coast-to-coast service in the country for American Airlines. But the DC-7's fame did not last long, as just a few years later, jet aircraft would charge the future of commercial aviation. Gone ...
by Sean McLachlan (RSS feed) (21 days ago)
Almudena Alonso-Herrero
Every now and then in my travels I find a spot where I want to stop for a while. Damascus, Harar and the Orkney Islands have all captured my imagination because of their rich culture and laid back atmosphere.
Damascus is lost, sucked into the ...
by Sean McLachlan (RSS feed) (23 days ago)
Wikimedia Commons
The government of Germany has begun construction of a monument to remember the physically and mentally handicapped people killed by the Nazis.
While everyone knows about the six million Jews killed during the Holocaust, Hitler's other victims are often ...
by Sean McLachlan (RSS feed) (24 days ago)
A 39,000-year-old woolly mammoth has gone on display in Yokohama, Japan.
Dubbed "Yuka," the mammoth died at the age of 10 and was frozen in the Russian snow until it was discovered three years ago. Yuka is the best preserved example of her species, which went extinct ...
by Sean McLachlan (RSS feed) (24 days ago)
Wikimedia Commons
The Berlin Wall has been a symbol of oppression and tyranny ever since it went up. When it fell in 1989, the world rejoiced and many hoped we would now live in a world without barriers.
As a new exhibition at a remaining part of the wall shows, however, ...
by Adam Hodge (RSS feed) (24 days ago)
NASA
Despite the fact that no human has set foot on the moon in over 40 years, Congress is worried that the sanctity of the Apollo landing sites is on the cusp of being compromised. So on Monday, worried legislators Rep. Donna Edwards (D-MD) and Rep. Eddie Bernice (D-TX) ...
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