Photos of Cordon, Philippines
Travel articles Where to Stay for NYC Conventions Conventions are in full swing at the Javits Center in New York City for 2009. Hotels fill quickly around these events, so plan as far ahead as possible so you... 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.
Nose to Nose with Velázquez on Google Earth A new layer on Google Earth offers highly detailed views of 14 paintings from the museum including Velázquez's Las Meninas, Goya's The 3rd of May, 1808 in Madrid, and Hieronymus Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights. And by highly detailed, we mean images that contain as many as 14 million pixels.
In which theme park will you spend most of your time? Take the Disney World Hotels test, a quick and fun quiz that helps you select the best hotels for your next Disney World trip. This question is: In which theme park will you spend most of your time? Sydney Festival 2009 On Through 1/31 After a reportedly epic Festival First Night shindig in the streets got the whole shebang off to a great start, Sydney Festival 2009 is now solidly under way in Oz's... |
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