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Hotel Maps: New Orleans French Quarter Map
New Orleans French Quarter map of hotels and landmarks. Who Wants a Pleistocene-Era Backyard?
While casting about for feel-good stories, we remembered the lost and starving Magellanic penguins that were airlifted to safety by the Brazilian army last fall. The young penguins, whose home is in the southern Atlantic, had wandered too far north, washing up on the warm beaches of Brazil by the hundreds, and the situation looked grim when "animal-welfare activists loaded the birds onto a Brazilian air force cargo plane and flew them 1,550 miles to the country's southern coast, where a crowd of onlookers celebrated as the penguins marched back into the sea." Definite feel-good material.
Bed Bug on Human Finger
Picture of a bed bug on a human finger. Stanley Hotel
The Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado, which inspired Steven King's 'The Shining,' has a few ghosts of its own. Deluxe Resorts at Disney World
Secluded and unique, Disney's Animal Kingdom Lodge is surrounded by an African savannah populated with giraffes, zebra, kudzu and ostriches.
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