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Passenger Lands Plane
This is an incredible story of calm in the face of danger. Last Tuesday afternoon, May 10, 2022, Boca Raton airport in Florida received a call from a passenger on board a Cessna airplane. The pilot of this plane had … Continue reading
All in the Name
The ancient Incan site known has Machu Picchu has probably had the wrong name for over 100 years. The long-lost 15th Century Incan city known as Machu Picchu, sits high in the mountains of Cusco, Peru. It’s visited by thousands … Continue reading
Blue Skin
The Fugate family of Troublesome Creek in the hills of Kentucky are descendants of Martin Fugate, a French orphan who settled in this remote part of the Appalachians in 1820. When Martin married, he and his wife had seven children, … Continue reading
Endurance
Ernest Shackleton was an Anglo-Irish Antarctic Explorer, an adventurer and to many, a hero. He set up the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition with the goal or crossing Antarctica from sea to sea via the pole. One half of the expedition members … Continue reading
Giant Porcupine Puppet
On its way to the San Diego Zoo, a giant puppet thrilled the assembled children at Elysian Park in Los Angeles. Percy the porcupine is about two stories high and sports over 2,000 foam quills. When enticed—with bananas—it emerges from … Continue reading
Around the World in 155 Days—The youngest girl to fly around the world
19-year-old Zara Rutherford has just achieved an amazing feat. She became the youngest girl and the youngest person to finish a solo flight around the world. She flew 28,000 nautical miles in a two-seater ultralight plane. She stopped off in … Continue reading
Spectacular Discovery in Antarctica
There are few places in the world where fish colonies thrive. But in Antarctica, under the ice covering the Wedell Sea, marine ecologists just discovered an enormous stretch of icefish nests covering over 92 square miles (240 square kilometers). On … Continue reading
New Plant Discoveries
Every year, new plants are discovered around the world. They are examined and identified according to their characteristics and are allocated a scientific name. In 2021, 205 new species were identified. The plants are often extremely rare and, in some … Continue reading
Reclaiming the Land
Activists have been telling us for some time now of the dangers of climate change. But there is some news that brings hope. Human activity has caused the destruction of land all over the world – cutting down trees, overgrazing … Continue reading
Have Legs—Will Travel
According to the dictionary, the word millipede means: “Any terrestrial arthropod of the class Diplopoda, having a cylindrical body composed of 20 to more than 100 segments, each with two pairs of legs.” But if you break down the word, … Continue reading
