Most streets in Japan have no name. They use a different addressing system than what is used in Western countries. Imagine strolling through a city street and having no street ...

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Mount Everest was named after Sir George Everest, a previous British Surveyor General of India, in 1865. But Everest didn’t even want it named after him, and it’s believed he ...

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The Hawaii state flag is one of the more interesting flags of the fifty states. It has the Union Jack of Great Britain in the left corner, and the rest ...

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The American Discovery Trail We’ve all heard of the famous Appalachian Trail that runs from Georgia to Maine and vice versa, but there is another trail that is even longer ...

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A hot dog cart might be as much a part of New York City as the Statue of Liberty and the Empire State Building, but what does it cost to ...

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Photo © Chris Downer (cc-by-sa/2.0) If you take a look at your bookshelf at home, or you’ve been to the library or bookstore recently, you’ll notice that the books are ...

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The Great Loop is a continuous waterway that encompasses parts of the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway, the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, the Great Lakes, inland rivers, and the Canadian Heritage Canals to ...

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The Pacific island country of Tuvalu In 1995, the tiny Pacific island country of Tuvalu received news that it had been assigned “.tv” by the Internet Telecommunication Union as its ...

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In the mid-1970s, a tiny island off the Labrador coast of Canada was discovered for the first time through images a satellite far overhead had sent back to Earth. This ...

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A View of the 1968 Proposed Everglades Jetport Google Earth It was an airport that was supposed to be five times the size of New York’s John F. Kennedy International ...

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You wouldn’t think so, but Christmas Day is a big day in Japan. It’s a day that has become an event, not so much for the actual celebration of Christmas, ...

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