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New Amelia Earhart Investigation Aims to Find Her Lost Plane on a Remote Pacific Island

Last Wednesday marked the 88th anniversary of Amelia Earhart’s 1937 disappearance — and all these years later, researchers are setting out to investigate a “visual anomaly” that may solve the mystery of what happened to the pilot.  This November, a field team organized by the Archaeological Legacy Institute (ALI) and Purdue University will spend five […]

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A UK Dad Creates Incredible Sand Sculptures — Including Giant Pair of Crocs

Building sand castles isn’t just for kids: One U.K. dad has been getting in on the summer fun, too. Mark Lewis, 57, is passionate about molding sand into weird and wonderful landscapes, creatures, and buildings, and his creative sculptures — including Spongebob Squarepants and a giant pair of Crocs — have been earning him attention on social media. He’s also created figures of Star Wars’ Jabba the Hutt and R2-D2, as well as The Lord of the Rings’ Helm’s Deep and Isengard, and he believes “the bigger” the sand sculpture “the better.” “It’s all about bringing joy into the world and inciting a smile on someone’s face as they discover something unexpected [to] surprise [them] on the beach,” he said. “I also love making things tall. The higher the sculpture, the more impressive it is, and we love it when people look at it thinking, ‘How on earth did they do that!’”

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Historic US Railway Stations Are Getting a New Lease on Life

When Kansas City Union Station originally opened its doors in 1914, it was a magnificent testament to the Missouri city’s position as an economic powerhouse, comprising 10 levels and 900 rooms — including an elaborately decorated Grand Hall with an ornate fresco-adorned ceiling and three 3,500-pound chandeliers.  During World War II, at the peak of

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Avoid Lost Luggage This Summer With These 7 Travel Tips From Unclaimed Baggage

Planning to fly somewhere soon? You and just about everyone else. The Federal Aviation Administration predicted in May that 2025 will be the busiest summer for air travel in the past 15 years, with many days exceeding 50,000 flights.  That means a ton of luggage will also be hurtling through the sky, stowed in overhead

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Englishman “Gobsmacked” After Finding His Wife’s Childhood Notes in a Thrift Store Children’s Novel

An English book collector was riffling through a children’s novel he’d picked up from a thrift shop when he stumbled upon a happy surprise: notes his wife had written 50 years ago as a child. A collector of around 50 novels by the late Enid Blyton — a bestselling children’s author who penned an estimated 800 books over four decades — 67-year-old Steve Mills told the BBC he was “completely gobsmacked” by the discovery. He was going through some new additions when he found the writings from Karen, 60, in a copy of The Naughtiest Girl Again, which had been donated by her mother in the 1970s. It somehow ended up in a thrift store in Rayleigh — a town in the U.K. that’s more than 160 miles away from where Karen grew up in Staffordshire. Steve, a retired civil servant who has loved Blyton’s books since he was a child, told SWNS, “We’ve taken it as one of the universe’s strange coincidences.”

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Created Your Summer Bucket List Yet? There Are Health Benefits to Having One, Plus 17 Ideas to Get Started

Aside from providing fodder for conversation, bucket lists can instill a sense of excitement, hope, and motivation, giving us things to work toward and look forward to. And with summer starting this week, it’s the perfect time to make one that’s tailored to the warmer months.  “Bucket lists are a fun and meaningful tool for

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 A Dad Turned His Hobby Designing Magical Costumes Into a Career: “I Want My Kids to Know Dreams Can Provide”

It wasn’t the first costume Nephi Garcia had designed for his then-4-year-old daughter — he’d been putting her in custom outfits since she was an infant — but the silky blue fairy godmother dress he stitched together from scraps represented a new chapter for his family.  Fashion is woven into multiple generations of Garcia’s lineage. His

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From Cheugy to Cool: These Youthful Trends Look Oddly Familiar to Millennials

Are millennials cool? Depends on who you ask. Whether they’re strutting around in ankle boots or insisting on no-show socks, it often feels like this generation is nothing but cheugy in Gen Z and Gen Alpha’s eyes. But fashion is cyclical. Take a closer look at what the kids are wearing these days, and underneath

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Architect Frank Lloyd Wright Made “the World a Better One for Living in” Through His Designs: Dive Into 4 Iconic Works

How many architects can you name off the top of your head? Whether that list is on the long or short side, Frank Lloyd Wright likely nabbed a spot. Even if you don’t know much about the man himself, we’d bet the iconic spiral featured in one of his most famous works, the legendary Guggenheim

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