
David Burke grasps a rusty ladder constant to the out of doors of an deserted 60-foot concrete
Using spherical holes withinside the concrete as footholds, he climbs ten or greater feet, directly right into a cluster of dense inexperienced foliage. Leaves explode out of…

One of my preferred objects withinside the Smithsonian collections
Those early years spent observing up on the stars stimulated Ride to emerge as a physicist, an astronaut and, in 1983 aboard the distance commute Challenger, the…

College scholar Mikhail Sharavin made an surprising discovery at the slopes
Dispatched as a member of a seekcelebration investigating a collection of 9skilled hikers’ disappearance, Sharavin and his fellow rescuers noticed the nook of a tent peeking out…

Harald Hardrada changed into possibly the maximum thrilling Viking in history
Imagine the eleventh-century Viking global as a circle spanning 4 continents: Harald could have in my view traveled as a minimum two-thirds of its perimeter. At the…

You Don’t Need All the Bells and Whistles
To be honest you don’t need much to do a trip like this, to bike across the USA. I bought some cheap gear for the trip, but…

Ups & Downs Biking Across America
Finally, I was off, into an amazing new world. Okay it wasn’t as amazing as I had imagined. Not at the start anyway. “How could this be…

Stephen Suntok pushes thru a tangle of blackberry bushes
Suntok appears up for a moment, watching on the faded sky, then selections his manner down a seaside get right of entry to clogged with tree trunks….

During the remaining days of the Cretaceous, sixty six million years ago
The likes of Tyrannosaurus and Triceratops might also additionally have all started feeling the urge to nest, with magnolias and dogwoods getting ready to flower. But it…

One stormy night time withinside the spring
Years into the Revolutionary War, a 16-year-vintage woman set up her horse (it can or won’t were named Star) and rode hell-for-leather (bareback? sidesaddle? debts vary) thru…