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Adventure photographer Peter McBride tells what it was like to shoot whirlpools while hanging from a ship's radio antenna.
Curl up under a blanket and enjoy these whirlpool-inspired excerpts from works by Poe, Verne, Homer and others. Hot chocolate is recommended.
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At every chance the gods throw up mighty obstacles to prevent him from getting home even as the Lady Circe gives him the advice he needs to survive
In the $12 billion business expo industry, Las Vegas Comdex is the premier attraction
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Proverbs in the asafo flags of Ghana
Gilbert Stuart and the Creation of an Icon
Bewitching her admirers around the world, Sarah Bernhardt dazzled audiences as she pioneered the cult of celebrity
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Popular "snore and roar" sleepovers give visitors an up close nighttime adventure with animals
Their habitat is disappearing fast, but San Joaquin kit foxes are finding ways to survive
Once we didn't know how aspirin works; now we know that it does a lot more than ease pain and inflammation
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Local expert Robert Godfrey relates true life-and-death stories of people sucked into the Old Sow whirlpool
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Travel tips from this month's Journeys column
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Most of the 256 shelters on the Appalachian trail are pretty rough. Then there's the Fontana Hilton
Our authors write Smitty, our travel editor, about their journeys
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