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At roughly 2,200 miles in length, the Appalachian Trail is the longest hiking-only foot path in the world.
Thousands of adventurous souls take to the trail every year, but only a relative few have the stamina, will and desire to make the hike all the way from the AT’s trailhead at Springer Mountain in Georgia to its end point at Mount Katahdin in Maine (or vice-versa). [Read more…]
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The rise of skyscrapers in the early 1900s forever changed the skylines of major cities in the United States, and soon after cities in other parts of the world.
Today we take the science and precision engineering behind these giant structures for granted, but back in early days of the 1910s they were on an entirely different level. [Read more…]
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I have always been fascinated by the night sky and the objects that exist beyond our wonderful planet. And as you probably know, the number of objects that exist in the known universe is simply beyond human comprehension.
Just inside our own solar system there are numerous objects that vary greatly in size, from the tiniest asteroid to the sun, the massive star that holds all the others in place with her incredibly strong gravitational force. [Read more…]
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When we look up into the night sky and see the full moon glowing like a huge ball amongst the stars, it’s easy to imagine that our closest heavenly body must be quite large.
Well, truth be told, it is. The diameter of the moon is 1/4 the diameter of Earth, making it rather large indeed.
But here’s a fun fact for you that might be somewhat hard to believe, but it’s true… [Read more…]
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As you probably know, California’s Death Valley is one of the most inhospitable places on the entire surface of our planet.
The area’s extreme heat combined with the virtual non-existence of water has claimed the lives of numerous people over the years.
It’s really not hard to imagine how this very unique place got its name. [Read more…]