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Plan a Trip to Alaska and Stay in These Classic Airplanes Converted into Luxury Accommodations (LOOK)
nnA flying instructor in Alaska, has taken on a second gig as manager of an “airplane amusement park” complete with luxury accommodations built out of old, decommissioned aircraft.nnJohn Kotwicki says there’s little red tape interfering with getting old airplanes up to his flight school and converting them into Airbnbs to use as a base to […]
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First-Ever Coral Crossbreeding Hopes to Mimic the Resilience of an ‘Invincible’ Reef in Honduras
nnMere feet under the waters off the coast of the Honduran city of Tela lies a coral reef that has the entire marine scientific community excited.nnThe reef of Tela Bay should be dead if anything we know about coral reefs is true. The harms it faces are manifold, from warm waters to boat traffic to […]
Postcard Finally Arrives in Swansea 121 Years After it Was First Sent–Quest to Find Descendants Begins
nnThis postcard was slipped into a mailbox, or perhaps was supposed to be, over 100 years ago, but has only just arrived.nnDated to 1903, the Christmas-themed postcard had the address for the Swansea Building Society’s Cradock Street branch, which still exists today, and the staff there hope to find the relatives of Miss Lydia Davis, […]
Surprising Sophistication of the Viking Legal Code Newly Discovered in Carved Runes
nnA recent reinterpretation of the oldest extant Viking legal text in Scandinavia has shed light on the surprising societal sophistication of these raiders and traders.nnThe text is from an iron ring found in Sweden dating to the 9th century, called the Varsa RingnnThough an undoubtedly strange place to post civic information about fines, the runic […]