Our ancestors revered the Sun as a creator and destroyer of life. Their senses told them that when the Sun is absent, everyone and everything suffers. They tracked its movements, noticing how it rises a little further along the horizon each day, until the solstices, when it pauses (the word solstice comes from ‘sun standstill’), then tracks…
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Minimise the frustration of planning flights with this new tool.
FlightsFrom.com has an easy to use web interface and in addition to having all non-stop destinations from every airport on every airline, also has schedule information with about 90% coverage. So not only do they show what airlines fly between sets of airports, for many (most)…
The Trinity College Library houses some of the world’s most precious manuscripts and artifacts dating back to 800 A.D. This colossal hall is a book lover’s paradise. Known as the Long Room, this magnificent chamber was built between 1712 and 1732 nearly 65 meters (213 feet) in length and home to over 200,000 rare books. Why so…
People all around the world just love Europe. With so many countries, and their individual styles and personalities, it's hard not to be drawn in. But, as in many places in the world, Europe is starting to creak with the sheer number of tourists annually - an impressive 6% growth in 2018 - and sometimes…
For some reason, the world is fascinated with Pablo Escobar, the notorious Colombian drug lord. He has not been on this Earth for quite a while, but he still leaves a legacy. This article describes a legacy that you would probably not have imagined In your wildest dreams, and it gets wilder the more you…
Sometimes ideas don't always go as planned. This video will certainly underscore that thought. We may not necessarily understand the logic that went behind some of these ideas, but it's safe to say that the intended result was perhaps not what it was meant to be. The upside of this is that an intrepid individual…
Join Us In France features a number of delightful web and podcast-based features on the never-boring country of France. Here, they choose the route less traveled into the little-known department in southwestern France, in the Occitanie region.
As we get older, and hopefully wiser, are eyes and ears open what it comes to discovering what makes us happy. And as the world gets smaller, some of those options which might have appeared completely insane just a few years ago, now are readily available.
This video shows ten places that are inexpensive to…