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Early Maps Fetch a King’s Ransom

admin — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 04:10:00 +0000

Despite the popularity of Global Positioning Systems (GPS) and all the thousands of earth orbiting satellites, there are roads less traveled and places few have seen. Our current system of cartography (map making) was first developed by the Greeks, their maps remained unchallenged for centuries. The early map makers had exquisite imaginations and only the [...]

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Ray from Georgia

admin — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:31:23 +0000

When I am looking to visit a new country, state, city or town, I like to have a good idea of what events took place in the history and who lived there. To me finding a room at one of the modern hotels around Georgia, click here, is like putting myself into such an historical [...]

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Brooklyn’s Prospect Park: 150 Years of Renewal and Revitalization

admin — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 19:28:22 +0000

The wonderful park in Brooklyn, Prospect Park, has been through many times of birth, decay, and rebirth. There are many individual facilities in the park and each one is rich with the history not only of the park, but of this particular New York borough as well. In recent years, the park has been going [...]

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Fort Wayne’s humble beginnings

admin — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:51:19 +0000

The area that is now Fort Wayne, IN was once a settlement of the Miami nation of native Americans called Kekionga. The Miami were visited by French Missionaries in 1676 on their way back from a missionary to Lake Michigan. By the 1680′s the French had established a post there because it was on a [...]

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Eunice de Souza, Goa Roots

admin — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:27:19 +0000

Of all of India’s splendid five-star hotels, Goa has a flavor unique to the country. With its famous beaches, that have attracted counter-cultural adventurers for the past few decades, there is a sonic culture here that lives in a vibrant and inviting night life. There are also forests for adventurous hikers and wildlife sanctuaries for [...]

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