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Underground Adventure - Episode 28

Louisville is home to one of the largest caverns in the United States. Sit back and... more

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Know Your Meme; Where The Hell is Matt

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Race on to build world's first space elevator

As the technology required to create a physical link between Earth and outer space... more

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“It Is A Pleasure To (Cough, Cough) Meet You, Your Highness”

[Caption under the picture reads] "What a HUNK! Notice me Charles....me...the girl... more

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America under Obama Ranks as Most Admired Nation on Earth

From Reuters: The United States is the most admired country globally thanks... more

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The Mexican Spirit

Mangroves and lagoons stretch along the northern half of Mexico's Campeche coast, home to countless flamingoes, while to the south the narrow bands of white sand beaches have always been cordoned off for turtles, not tourists. In the aftermath of the swine flu outbreak, Cancún, on the opposite side of the Yucatan peninsula, has been missing its usual planeloads of holidaymakers. But Campeche has never courted vast numbers of visitors and, while welcoming the few that come, can get by just fine without them. Lacking the Yucatan east coast's turquoise seas and sweeping beaches, this ruggedly beautiful western coast epitomises independent spirit. It's certainly safe again to bring your body here for healing winter sun; but more to the point, this area has always provided a unique medicine for the soul. Its inhabitants are justifiably proud of their abundant wildlife and rich cultural inheritance, while Campeche city itself is one of the most beguiling places in Latin America.

Beat-up cars rattle through the narrow cobbled streets, a rusting Dodge parked up outside the pastel blue manicured splendour of a colonial house. The whole city centre is listed as a Unesco world heritage site: a perfectly preserved 16th-century Spanish colonial streetscape, where the fierce tropical sun tears shadows through curving wrought-iron balconies and window grilles, across the painted walls. Despite its overwhelming beauty, historical importance, and extreme safety, Campeche city is no stuffy museum piece. The vigorous thrum of Mexican daily life beats everywhere just beneath its stuccoed skin. The streets are filled with independently-owned shops selling pens, or tinsel, or radios. Women and old men pray beneath the chandeliers inside the finely-kept churches, or come to read their newspapers in the pews, finding sanctuary for the flesh as well as the soul in the cool limestone walls. Pelicans dive into the navy waters of the Gulf of Mexico beyond the city's sea walls, splashing down between small fishing boats, while Mayan women from the countryside sell mangoes on street corners and lanky boys shoot pool at battered green tables in antique colonnades.Mangroves and lagoons stretch along the northern half of Mexico's Campeche coast, home... more

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The Titanic Emerges in Louisville - Episode 27

This episode takes us to the Louisville Science Center where you get swept away into... more

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Welcome to Fabulous Chernobyl!

“We will see the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant and the Sarcophagus above the... more

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Mexico setting up special bilingual police for tourists

Baja California is a popular tourist destination for many Americans, particularly... more

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Wookey Witch Fired

A woman who beat 2,319 people to a £50,000 ($100K) job as a witch is to be sacked... more

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Way,,,,,,,,Way,,,,,,,,Cool Cat! Makes waves, but not much wake.

........and all it takes,........IS ALL THE MONEY IN THE WORLD. (piracy?) The... more

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ILLEGAL US OCCUPATION OF HAWAI`I FILM TO BE SHOWN

FREE NOHO HEWA SCREENING ON O`AHU Honolulu Advertiser - October 1, 2009 An... more

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Chicagoans Protest 2016 Olympic Bid

Roughly 250 people gathered outside City Hall in downtown Chicago this evening to... more

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Atrocity Vacations in Sri Lanka

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Budapest: Hungarian National Theater

After my visit to Budapest, this is the first photo I post online.

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Harry Potter theme park!

MIAMI — It sounds like a new book in the Harry Potter series, but "Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey" will be a high-tech ride and the marquee attraction at the "Wizarding World of Harry Potter," a new theme park area opening in spring 2010 at Universal Orlando Resort.

The "Forbidden Journey" ride was named by author J.K. Rowling and described Tuesday by Universal officials in a Web cast revealing details of what the Potter park will look like.

The ride will takes guests through scenes and rooms from the blockbuster movies inside a richly detailed remake of Hogwarts Castle made to look 700 feet tall. Hogwarts is where Harry attends a boarding school for witches and wizards.

Guests will enter the "Wizarding World" through a station archway named for Hogsmeade, the magical village near Hogwarts. A plume of steam and a train whistle will sound the arrival of the Hogwarts Express. The goal is to make the experience immersive, so nothing outside is visible after guests pass the Hogsmeade station archway.

Rowling, known for carefully guarding the Potter franchise, hasn't yet journeyed to Orlando, but the design team has made several trips to London to consult with her.

Other rides include the "Dragon Challenge," a twin high-speed roller coaster themed after the "Triwizard Tournament" and the family roller coaster "Flight of the Hippogriff," named for a creature with an eagle's head and a horse's body.

"Along those journeys they're going to be swept up into the greatest parts of the movies and the books. We've pushed every technology available to us to give guests a theme park experience unlike any they've had before," said Paul Daurio, producer of the Potter area.

The Harry Potter park will be part of Universal's Islands of Adventure.

Art and set directors from the films, including Oscar-winning production designer Stuart Craig and art director Alan Gilmore, were hired to translate the movies into the park.

Every shop and eatery is Potter-themed. Honeydukes sells chocolate frogs and "Bertie Bott's Every-Flavour Beans," Ollivander's peddles magic wands, Zonko's joke shop has Sneakoscopes, and the British restaurant Three Broomsticks pours Butterbeer.

At The Owl Post, guests can send letters with a certified Hogsmeade postmark. Magical instruments and equipment are available at Dervish and Banges, including everything needed to play Quidditch — a game like soccer played on flying broomsticks.MIAMI — It sounds like a new book in the Harry Potter series, but "Harry Potter and... more