Tourism website includes Toronto museum addition on ugly buildings list
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:07:00 CST
TORONTO - A tourism website has put an addition to the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto on its second annual list of the "World's Top 10 Ugly Buildings."
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Tour of Obama's NYC visits Columbia, Harlem, where he studied, lived and worked
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:10:00 CST
NEW YORK - Jeremiah Miller calls the time Barack Obama spent in New York "the lost years," because that period from 1981 to 1985 is not as well-known as his roots in Hawaii or his recent years in Chicago. To fill in the gap, Miller offers a tour of Upper Manhattan called "Obama's New York."
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Holiday displays include tree made of feathers, Obamas' first tree event
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:07:00 CST
NEW YORK - This season's Christmas tree displays include trees made from feathers at a historic home in Indianapolis, a thank-you tree in Boston sent from Nova Scotia, and the Obamas' first National Christmas Tree ceremony in Washington.
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Gabrielle Roy's family home in Winnipeg named a national historic site
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:08:00 CST
WINNIPEG - One hundred years after the birth of celebrated novelist Gabrielle Roy at 375 Deschambault St. in southeast Winnipeg, the 2 1/2-storey wood-frame house has been named a national historic site.
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Duncan a pleasant surprise to visitors in Vancouver Island's Cowichan region
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:08:00 CST
DUNCAN, B.C. - The centre of this Vancouver Island community consistently strikes visitors as a pleasant surprise, says Georgina Montgomery, author of a new book on the island's Cowichan region.
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Coast Salish art and culture is focus of Royal BC Museum exhibition
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:07:00 CST
VICTORIA, B.C. - The Royal BC Museum is presenting what it calls the first-ever comprehensive exhibition of Coast Salish art and culture.
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Russian icebreaker carrying over 100 tourists on Antarctic cruise nears open water
Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:35:00 CST
MOSCOW - A Russian icebreaker carrying more than 100 tourists, scientists and journalists on an Antarctic cruise was approaching open water Thursday after being halted by unexpectedly thick ice, its owners and a travel agency said.
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Radio City Christmas Spectacular needs a little magic to make it sing
Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:22:00 CST
NEW YORK - Like a shiny toboggan wedged on wet snow, the Radio City Christmas Spectacular needs a little push.
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Despite political unrest, a relaxing vacation in beautiful Honduras is possible
Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:05:00 CST
ROATAN, Honduras - "The president's been arrested already this morning," hotel owner Jeff Kuken told me and my wife one Sunday morning in late June.
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Tiny gadgets on gift list for travellers, but don't forget the wine wheel
Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:03:00 CST
NEW YORK - What makes a good holiday gift for a traveller?
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Anatomical art once owned by Ben Franklin go on display at Philadelphia hospital
Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:50:00 CST
PHILADELPHIA - Centuries before X-rays, CAT scans and ultrasounds gave doctors a view inside the human body, the best images medical students often had were illustrations drawn by artists of bodies in a morgue.
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Move over Paris, Tokyo is now the world leader in number of Michelin three-star eateries
Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:05:00 CST
TOKYO - The Epicurean king who oversees the Michelin Guide fears he may be banished from France.
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Odd floating reed islands of South America's dazzling Lake Titicaca worth visit
Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:05:00 CST
PUNO, Peru - Stepping out of a boat onto an artificial reed island, your foot wobbles and the surface feels spongy underfoot. Elaborate vessels, made of bundles of dried reeds lashed together into crescent shapes, some with figureheads in the shape of animals on the prows, are docked along the shore.
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Official says widespread delays, cancellations in US due to problem with flight plan system
Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:39:00 CST
ATLANTA - Air travellers nationwide scrambled to revise their plans Thursday after a computer glitch caused widespread cancellations and delays for the second time in 15 months.
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U.S. Air and Space museum opens new spaceflight exhibit with Hubble instruments
Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:58:00 CST
WASHINGTON - Two instruments that helped save the Hubble Space Telescope from failure in 1993 were recently returned to Earth and are going on display at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum.
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Songwriter Johnny Mercer gets his own Savannah statue for 100th birthday
Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:43:00 CST
SAVANNAH, Ga. - Jeepers creepers! Savannah's got a Johnny Mercer statue for tourists' peepers.
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Alabama Governor's Mansion to open for holiday tours
Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:01:00 CST
MONTGOMERY, Ala. - The Alabama Governor's Mansion in Montgomery is going to be open for candlelight tours on three Monday nights in December.
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Sandhill crane migration draws N. Indiana crowds
Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:01:00 CST
MEDARYVILLE, Ind. - Hundreds of people have been flocking to a northern Indiana wildlife refuge where thousands of sandhill cranes are making their annual fall migration stop.
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Forbes issues first edition of former Mobil Travel Guide awards
Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:01:00 CST
NEW YORK - Forbes has issued its first set of four-and five-star awards for hotels, spas and restaurants as the new brand name for what was formerly known as the Mobil Travel Guide.
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Smithsonian exhibit on commercial holiday displays
Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:00:00 CST
WASHINGTON - Santa Claus is making an early appearance to open a new exhibit at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History on the art and business of commercial holiday displays.
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