The British never cease to amaze. Seems like they’re always upto no good, and somehow end up foisting on the world one scatterbrained scheme after another. But this is one time I probably wouldn’t mind their scheme jumping across the Atlantic from London to New York.
Because London Breaks and the Daily Mail are offering an intriguing promotion […]
Posted on June 26th, 2009 by Thomas
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If you’re a fan of a new concept called ‘working vacations’, then the Keepers Program at the Grand Traverse Lighthouse in Northport, MI, is just about perfect.
The Grand Traverse Lighthouse is located in northern Michigan at the tip of the Leelanau Peninsula, 9 miles north of Northport, and inside the Leelanau State Park. And every […]
Posted on June 2nd, 2009 by Thomas
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Considering that the Pfister Hotel has been around for over 100 years, it was just a matter of time before someone claimed a ghostly sighting. But what makes it even more astounding is that this accusation should come from MLB players.
That’s right - Some members of the Milwaukee Brewers and St. Louis Cardinals are accusing the […]
Posted on May 30th, 2009 by Thomas
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It’s no big secret that the airline industry is in deep trouble, what with the long recession and swin flu and stuff. People are just not traveling as much as before. So obviously, the airlines need to come up with something innnovative just to stay in business.
And UK budget carrier EasyJet has come up with […]
Posted on May 6th, 2009 by Thomas
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If you’re a mystery/murder buff, and you have £2,400 lying around a-wasting, you have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to spend a week wallowing in the hallowed Devon vacation home of the Queen of mystery thrillers.
Greenway, near Dartmouth, was purchased by Agatha Christie in 1938, and she spent three summers here with her second husband Max Mallowan. Greenway, along with […]
Posted on April 23rd, 2009 by Thomas
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History repeats itself all over again. On Dec 15, 1989, artist Arturo Di Modica dropped off a 7000 pound bronze bull in front of the New York Stock Exchange, meant to rally the people and the markets into a bull run after the terrible recession.
The police seized the sculpture and threw it into an impound […]
Posted on March 22nd, 2009 by Thomas
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I know it’s not really popular to be a social conservative nowadays, what with President Obama and the libruls in power in Washington and all that jazz, but you know there’s something screwy when bible-thumping Kentucky creationists in museums suddenly started expounding a new-found love and respect for Darwin’s theory of natural selection.
That’s right - There’s this new exhibit […]
Posted on March 19th, 2009 by Thomas
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The new $5.6 million Tsunami Museum that just opened in Banda Aceh, Indonesia designed by Indonesian architect Ridwan Kamil is all over the news. And rightly so, considering Aceh faced the brunt of the awesome power of the tsunami on Dec 26, 2004, unleashed by an underwater earthquake. 240,000 people in 11 countries died as a result, more […]
Posted on March 5th, 2009 by Thomas
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Until 2002, the storefront at Pier View Way, Oceanside CA was a Playgirl Strip Club with a massive stripper cutout straddling the joint from above, advertising the devilish delights inside. For five years, Oceanside residents fumed over what they considered were the obscene excesses permitted inside the strip club.
Then in 2002, the City forked over […]
Posted on March 2nd, 2009 by Thomas
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A report on melting glaciers in the Antarctic prepared after a 2 years of research by scientists from 60 countries was released in Geneva on Wednesday, as part of the 2007-2008 International Polar Year.
The report says that glaciers in Antarctica are melting much, much faster than was previously known, and also slipping into the sea, because […]
Posted on February 26th, 2009 by Thomas
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