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Interesting Facts
Interesting Facts Aussies picked up the most medals each at the Sydney Olympics, which brings them into the all time top 11. Finns are perhaps the world's greatest athletes, ranked…
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Air Travel Illness
A review in the medical Lancet found the commonest diseases linked to air travel have been spread via contaminated food rather than from the cabin’s recycled air. The US researchers…
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Travel Writing Workshop
When: Saturday 18th June, 10.30am-4.00pm Where: The Newsroom, The Guardian 60 Farringdon Road, London EC1R 3GA Cost: £85.00 A day of two intensive workshops: Travel Writing – How to do…
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A Little Part of Istanbul
When Sultan Mehmet the Conqueror took over Istanbul in 1453, he first ordered the construction of a new palace for this new Ottoman capital, on a site in the district…
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Get Health Advice
The Health Protection Agency say that tourists need more advice about how to protect their health while they are away. They say, while many companies do tell travellers to get…
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Have you got a tale to tell?
If you have a travellers tale that your aching to tell. Then why not visit the “Travel Sized Bites” section of the Website and share it with the world. Travel…
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Gettysburg a Civil War Battlefield by Susan Velasquez
A visit to Gettysburg will take you back in time, where you can almost hear the ghosts of the civil war soldiers and, louder still, the cannons still bursting in…
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Satellite Pics
Google, the search engine can help you access satellite photos of North America’s most significant landmarks and locations, including the Grand Canyon, Alcatraz and Mount Rushmore. You need to enter…
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Cockroach Trivia
The Beetle has bad memories about sharing a room with what seemed like a thousand cockroaches in Gilgit in Pakistan a few years ago and was afraid that they would…
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Country Statistics: Lowest Population Density
Want to get away and escape the crowds? LOWEST POPULATION DENSITY2 (per sq mi): 2004 Western Sahara – 2.6 Mongolia – 4.6 Namibia – 6.1 Australia – 6.7 Botswana –…