Travel articles Royal Shower
Picture of the shower in Cinderella's castle suite in Walt Disney World. 20 Largest Hotels
These are the biggest of the big ones. The largest hotels in the United States. And seventeen of the twenty are in Las Vegas. Swimming Pool at Treasure Island Hotel Casino
Picture and details about the swimming pool area at the Treasure Island Hotel Casino in Las Vegas. Swimming Pool at Mandalay Bay Hotel Casino
Picture and details about the 11-acre beach and swimming pool area at Mandalay Bay Hotel Casino on the Las Vegas Strip. 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.
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