Photos of Balingasay, Philippines
Travel articles Who Wants a Pleistocene-Era Backyard? While casting about for feel-good stories, we remembered the lost and starving Magellanic penguins that were airlifted to safety by the Brazilian army last fall. The young penguins, whose home is in the southern Atlantic, had wandered too far north, washing up on the warm beaches of Brazil by the hundreds, and the situation looked grim when "animal-welfare activists loaded the birds onto a Brazilian air force cargo plane and flew them 1,550 miles to the country's southern coast, where a crowd of onlookers celebrated as the penguins marched back into the sea." Definite feel-good material.
Chinese New Year: Year of the Ox Another New Year's Eve is nearly here: January 25 2008 is the night before the Year of Ox begins, and over at About.com's China Travel site, Sara Naumann's blog highlights... Swimming Pool at the Paris Las Vegas Hotel and Casino Picture and details about the swimming pool area at Paris Las Vegas on the Las Vegas Strip. Grand Floridian Pictures - Disney's Grand Floridian - Pictures of the Grand Floridian Pictures of Grand Floridian at Disney World: Overhead View of The Grand Floridian, with the Magic Kingdom in the background. Male, Back: Bedbug Bites Male, Back: Pictures of bedbug bites by real people bitten by bedbugs. |
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