Topic: Parks And Historic Sites
ALLIANCE, Neb (Reuters) - For sale: 38 vintage automobiles. Price: $300,000.Mystical and entertainment value: Priceless.Carhenge, America's answer to England's Stonehenge, is for sale.The Friends of Carhenge put the full-scale automotive replica of the prehistoric circle of stones on the sale block because ...
The world's first off-road Segway course opens its doors in Denmark's second city of Aarhus on Friday modelled as a miniature version of Yellowstone National Park, the Segworld Park owner told AFP.Visitors can steer their two-wheel Segway scooters through mountains and waterfalls ...
Sable Island, renowned for shipwrecks and wild horses off the coast of Nova Scotia, was named a Canadian national park by the government on Monday.Environment Minister Peter Kent, responsible for a department overseeing Canada's national parks, said an agreement was signed with ...
BASTROP, Texas (Reuters) - Bastrop calls itself the Heart of the Lost Pines, but now the Texas state park is the place where the pines were lost.More than a month after the most destructive wildfire in Texas history burned 34,000 acres, destroyed ...
Seville is famed for its imposing cathedral and whitewashed streets but the Spanish city may lose its UN World Heritage status because of a new 41-storey skyscraper.The 178-metre (584-foot) high, oval-shaped building, still under construction, will house the offices of savings bank ...
Protesters in Washington condemning corporate greed and corrupt politics leaped at the chance to extend their occupation of a square near the White House by another four months.The Stop the Machine occupation of Freedom Plaza is one of two ongoing protests in ...
A four-day protest in Washington to reclaim American politics for the people went into overtime on Monday, its participants vowing to stay put despite the expiry of their permit.The Stop the Machine occupation of Freedom Plaza is one of two ongoing protests ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The National Park Service and engineers have completed an assessment of earthquake damage to the now-closed Washington Monument, the agency said.The service and an engineering team that rappelled the 555-foot-high obelisk wrapped up their checks on Wednesday, the National ...
SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) - The U.S. government has proposed lifting federal protection from wolves in the state of Wyoming which would allows unregulated killing of the animals in most of the state.The proposal under a state wildlife management plan would require Wyoming ...
CODY, Wyo (Reuters) - A mother grizzly previously allowed to roam free after killing a hiker in Yellowstone National Park in July has been euthanized after park officials linked the bear to a second fatal mauling in August.DNA and footprint analysis showed ...
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