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Close Encounters With the Old Sow
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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Enjoy a chapter of a translated fictional account of the Sun King’s kitchen gardenerâ—and peek into the intrigues of high society in 17th-century France
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A Journey to the Age of Magnificence
Travel tips from this month’s Journeys column
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Versailles’ labyrinth, which we’ve reconstructed for your virtual pleasure.
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Couturiere and courtesan, Coco made her own rules as she freed women from old fussy, frilly fashions
Advances in production, energy efficiency and methods of construction have enabled glass to rise to new heights and assume unexpected forms
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Keith Melton’s museum contains the finest collection of espionage paraphernalia anywhereand it’s so secret we can’t even tell you where it’s located
Samuel Pepys’ London Chronicles
The candid diarist portrays the ravages of fire and plague, the bawdy court of Charles II, and his own romps with maids
Robots that feed themselves could become self-propelled farm machinesor military snipers
By studying objects cast up on our shores, researcher Curtis Ebbesmeyer traces the flow of ocean currents
Following the Track of the Cat
The Bushmen of Namibia are so good at reading the language of footprints they can tell what a leopard did the day before they started pursuing it
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Women Athletes Put On Their Game Face
There was a time when the term “female athlete” was an oxymoron
Lily dale, New York, is a curious little village where the still-quick commune with the once-quick
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