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Cinderella's Crown and Scepter
Picture of Cinderella's crown, seen in the entrance to Cinderella's Castle Suite in Walt Disney World. Madonna Inn - Old Mill - Photos of the Madonna Inn - Rooms at the Madonna Inn
Old Mill: Favorite rooms in the Madonna Inn, a unique California hotel. Birds to Blame for Plane Crash in New York
The details continue to emerge over a downed US Airways aircraft on Thursday with over 150 passengers and crew aboard. The plane, which was headed to Charlotte, hit a flock... 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.
C.M., Elbow: Bedbug Bites
C.M.'s Elbow: Pictures of bedbug bites by real people bitten by bedbugs.
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