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Top Ten Summer Vacations For The Family

This year many families will want to save money and still have a great vacation. Whether its relaxing on the beach or riding a roller coaster, I am sure these custom vacations will give you memorable times for the whole family. This article is...

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 videoSailing Through the Miraflores Locks on the Panama Canal

Following their success in the building of the Suez Canal, which was completed in 1869, French businessmen and engineers turned their turned their attention to building a similar canal across the narrow Isthmus of Panama. The Suez Canal provided a...

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Some Unique Things About Panama

I lived long enough in Panama, and I've been to sufficient other places to know how unique Panama is, and here are some things about Panama that can only be experienced there: 1. You are not rich, but you can afford a maid or two. 2. When there's...

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Arbol Cuadrado - The Square Tree

In one of my history classes about Latin America my Professor mentioned a Square Tree found in Panama. It got my curiosity and I tried to find more information on it. Sadly, despite it's unique features, I can't even find a Latin name for the species.

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Remarkable And Amazing Baobab And Other Trees

Learn about the amazine bo tree, baobog tree, candle tree, grass trees, traveler's tree, and pandanus trees.

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Family Vacations: Best Florida Beaches for Families and Kids

Learn about the best Florida beaches for kids and family vacations. Photos and videos are included!

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Mountain Chicken - critically endangered

The critically endangered frog - the Mountain Chicken is one of the world's largest frogs and has been hunted for its meat, lost habitat to humans and now is nearly wiped out via the chytrid fungus. There have been attempts to rescue this frog and are now small captive populations in some zoos.Read all about the Mountain Chicken and its plight.

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US History in The 20th Century: 1901 - 1920

This photo is of the Wright Flyer, 1903. The early 20th Century in America is uniquely interesting to me, because of the abundance of its new inventions and the role of my ancestors in advancing the nation to this point in history...

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Book Review of New York Times Bestseller: Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford, is fiction at its best, but you find yourself thinking that it could be true. When the Panama Hotel in Seattle, an actual hotel which catered to Japanese families is reopened, a number of items are discovered in the basement. The items were stored by Japanese families who were forced into interment during World War Two. When Henry, a Chinese man who grew up in the neighborhood pleads to search the contents, the reader is left curious as t

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The Bullhorn Acacia, Acacia cornigera, and Its Fearless Alies

Bullhorn Acacia, Acacia cornigera, native of Central America is best known for its symbiotic relationship with a species of ant that lives in it the hollowed-out tree thorns. The ants are famous for defending the tree fearlessly against ravaging insects and animals .

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