Passengers expecting outstanding cuisine aboard a luxury Silversea cruise liner spent much of their vacation in the ship’s bathrooms with a gastrointestinal virus, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said Monday. At least 28 passengers and one crew member among the Silver Nova’s 633 passengers fell ill during their 16-day Easter-themed cruise that set sail in Callao, Peru, …
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Home to the Black Hills, the Badlands and the sprawling prairies of the Great Plains, South Dakota is a state rich in scenery and features monuments and dedications to the likes of everyone from Crazy Horse to George Armstrong Custer. It’s also a state extremely proud of its history. Attracting some 14.7 million tourists annually, South Dakota touts six national …
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The spectacular sights of springtime around the United States are in full bloom from coast to coast and across the ocean. Here’s a look at five of the best flower gardens in America across five U.S. time zones for your traveling pleasure. EASTERN: Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Sarasota, Florida Sunshine State beauty blossoms along the Florida coast at stunning Selby …
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Losing your belongings on the go can be irritating – especially if they’re valuable or sentimental. Uber drivers are accustomed to items being left behind in their rides, some more unique than others. The rideshare’s eighth annual Lost & Found Index, released on Wednesday, surveyed drivers for the most common and surprising possessions left in cars by their passengers. ‘STEAK …
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The circus is full of compelling acts, dangerous stunts and entertaining performers. One performer who is part of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey is Skyler Miser, who stars as the Ringling Rocket. During the show, in some cases three times a day, Miser acts as a human cannonball — she’s blasted through the air out of a rocket. Even …
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Sitting rife with untouched land where the Great Plains meet the Rocky Mountains, Wyoming is prime real estate for some of America’s greatest natural phenomena. Serving as home to 10 national parks, 12 state parks and some 28 historic sites, the state is just as rich in nature as it is in relics from the cowboys, gunslingers and frontiersmen of …
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In Paris’ outskirts, a bright-eyed young girl is eager for the Olympic and Paralympic Games to end. That’s because the swimming club where 10-year-old Lyla Kebbi trains will inherit an Olympic pool. It will be dismantled after the Games and trucked from the Olympic race venue in Paris’ high-rise business district to Sevran, a Paris-area town with less glitter and …
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A $2 million settlement — and pending lawsuits — after a tourist was murdered during a carjacking in a rental community is a warning shot to the short-term rental industry, the victim’s mother and lawyer said. Jeremiah Brown was 22 in July 2022, when he, his girlfriend and her children took a celebratory vacation from California to Central Florida, where …
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A mother of two in Texas is behind bars after she allegedly left her young children home alone for nearly a week while she went on a cruise. Lakesha Woods Williams, 29, was arrested on two charges of child endangerment on Thursday after leaving her 6-year-old and 8-year-old children alone in her high-rise apartment in Houston for six days, according …
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The Candy Man, in an earlier era in American pop culture, was portrayed as a kindly magician who charmed children with the secret ingredient to turn sunshine into dreamy sweet confections. “He mixes it with love / And makes the world taste good,” late multimedia performer Sammy Davis Jr. sang in his signature tune. Candy as a symbol of love …
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