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Mystery Photo Revealed - Hoover Dam
Did you guess correctly? Hoover Dam, which was built to dam the Colorado River and create Lake Mead, straddles the Arizona-Nevada state line. Two of the four intake... 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.
Beat the Bidding System
Learn a few tricks to make your bid on hotel rooms work for you. Disney's Port Orleans
Atmospheric resort inspired by the Old South features willow trees lining a river, New Orleans-style architecture, and a large outdoor playground. Madonna Inn - Caveman Room - Photos of the Madonna Inn - Rooms at the Madonna Inn
Caveman Room: Favorite rooms in the Madonna Inn, a unique California hotel.
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