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The United Nations declared July 20 International Moon Day in 2021, pinning the observance to the night in 1969 when two people stood on another world for the first…
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For 27 years, ordinary travelers, admittedly, ordinary travelers with extraordinary budgets, could cross the Atlantic faster than a rifle bullet, sipping champagne at the edge of space aboard the…
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Every traveler who loves Venice has heard the warning, usually delivered with a sigh: go now, because it's sinking. It's one of those lines that sounds like exaggeration,…
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Four million people a year funnel into Yosemite Valley to stand under El Capitan and Bridalveil Fall, inching through traffic for views that justify every minute of it.…
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Most disasters happen fast. An earthquake gives you seconds; a flash flood, minutes. What happened to Thistle, Utah, took weeks — slow enough that residents carried their furniture out…
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Ask Americans to name the great migrations that built the country and you'll hear about Ellis Island, the Oregon Trail, the Great Migration north. Almost nobody mentions the trains…