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96The 5 Best California Weekend Getaways
Looking to get away for the weekend in California? Here are my five best recommendations for CA weekend getaways: Tahoe, San Diego, Hwy 1, Yosemite and Northern California hot springs.
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94Hawaii and Tsunamis
I first encountered the term tsunami as a teenager while reading James A. Michener's epic novel, Hawaii. In one part of that book he describes an off shore earthquake in a remote area of the Pacific which...
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93The Island of Hawaii and Its Six Volcanoes
Volcanoes, like their close cousins earthquakes, are responsible for both massive destruction as well as for the creation of many of the beautiful landscapes on our earth. The Earth as we know it today was...
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92My Ten Places To Be In Canada
I love in Canada, and have traveled to most of the provinces of Canada, so I'll try to narrow down some of my more favorite cities and why I love them. In no particular order, as I really don't have a true...
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92Common Edible Wild Plants - Part I
Sitting at nature's dinner table, most would be surprised at the goodness and variety of the bounty. By learning about just a few wild edible plants, you'll soon be able to recognize them, and never have to...
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93Aborigines of Oceana
Spirit Ancestors. Extraterrestrials? My favorite scene from the 1983 film of the US Space Program, The Right Stuff, is the scene in which John Glenn orbits the Earth over Australia while Aboriginals contemplate the Dreamtime.
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89The Guano Islands Act of 1856 - Congress's Bird Poop Law
If you take a close look at a map of the Pacific Ocean you will notice that, next to the names of many isolated islands, the name United States or the initials U.S. appear in parenthesis next to the names of...
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85Common Edible Wild Plants - Part II
There were times in my childhood when we were probably poor, but I certainly didn't know it. I didn't connect the right dots, when wild rice cakes, dandelion salad, fried milkweed pods, and day lily fritters...
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88Selling Your Gold - Are you getting ripped off?
Your $75 check from an on-line gold buyer that took three weeks to receive? It could have been $518 in cold hard cash after a ten minute trip to your local refiner. Ouch. It could have been worse....
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84Dining In An Antique Railroad Car in Willcox Arizona - A Restaurant Review
Situated along Interstate-10 in Arizona just east of the New Mexico border and laying about halfway between Phoenix, Arizona and El Paso, Texas is the city of Willcox. Originally founded in 1880 as a minor...
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