July
16
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July
12
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July
11
/ 2012
If you’re anything like me, you’re entranced by the beauty of India.
July
10
/ 2012
Florida Culture for the Week of July 9 by Josh Garrick
July
10
/ 2012
Coming in across the Serengeti plains for a landing in the small six-seater aircraft, I spotted a herd of something below. Gazelle? Impala? It was definitely some sort of antelope. And in the midst of them, something raised its long and graceful head far above the others. My heart skipped a beat — it was a giraffe! I was seeing a real, live giraffe in the wild, in its natural habitat in Tanzania, with my very own eyes!
July
08
/ 2012
Until very recently in history, most people didn't have easy access to ice. In David McCullough's book The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914, he explains how ice made its way to Panama in the mid-1800s. It certainly took some work: