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Learn a few tricks to make your bid on hotel rooms work for 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.
Photographs of Arnold Palmer's Bay Hill Country Club
Arnold Palmer's Bay Hill Country ClubPhoto Courtesy of Bay Hill Country Club
Bay Hill and Arnold Palmer have inextricably become linked together. Today, although Bay Hill is the home of the... Coral by Hilton Dominican Republic - Pictures of the Hiltons in the Dominican Republic - Hilton Dominican Republic
Pictures of the four Coral by Hilton Dominican Republic all-inclusive resorts.
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