North, to Alaska, go north, the rush is on!
The Klondike gold rush was in 1896. Mining is still an important part of the present day Alaskan economy, which is based on oil production, fishing, federal and state (both civilian and military) expenditures, research and development, and tourism. The state has a...
Conquering the Beasts Red rock country in Utah is a favorite climbing playground for the serious business of taming the beasts of terrain and fear. A female climber show how it's done.
Agatha Christie’s Mystery, “Appointment with Death,” Never Solved the Greater Mystery of Petra The real mystery is what happened to the Nabataeans who built and abandoned Petra? No one knows. Planet Earth is full of history mysteries. This is just one of them.
Agatha Christie’s Appointment with Death is a 1938 novel and play that features the Nabataean city of Petra, in the country of Jordan, as a main setting. “Among the towering red cliffs of Petra, like some monstrous swollen Buddha, sat the corpse of Mrs...
Life Finds a Way A tour of Bangkok, adaptability and ingenuity
We published another pictorial featuring innovation despite dire circumstances in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, following the Indian Ocean tsunami. This tour of Bangkok, Thailand, is not post-anything, it’s just the regular life of its everyday occupants, rich and poor. But...
