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Harding was a perfect figurehead for 1920s America: an old-fashioned small-town man with a veneer of sophistication. He was a handsome, back-slapping, card-playing neighborly fellow from Marion, Ohio...

..I realized I had reached the Barossa Valley, a quite spectacularly pretty corner of Australia, with rolling hills of abundant green that gave it, literally and metaphorically, a Mediterranean air.

"Twisting these guys won't bring back New Orleans, Clete. It's gone. Just like our youth. The place we knew will be a place we look at in books that feature historical photography."

There have been girls in my life. Hell, there's even been women. For many years I travelled and had, as they say, one in every port. But nothing ever stuck.

Benteen loved the sport. Back in Kansas,he'd organized a pickup game..and proudly speculated that it was probably the first time baseball had been played in such a remote part of the American West.

...the Exodus may never have taken place, but may be just a story concocted, like Gilgamesh, by nomadic herdsmen in need of an evening's entertainment.

In late 1944, the Allies liberated Paris, but the euphoria was short-lived. On September 6 an altogether new weapon terrorized the city, falling from the sky faster than sound...

"His movements were quick, relaxed, and by the book, and when I could occasionally probe out a real spontaneous response, he pressed his attack as if he wanted to win. My experience and my feel for a real fight still gave me the overwhelming advantage..."

The fellow was reloading his sling. Kwasin dropped below the ridge and as fast as he could began making his way through the interwoven mass of trees.

Then a shout of despair rang out in the night. "Kho help us! The king is dead!" A member of the king's guard had found Roteka's body...

"It's gone eight, son. You don't want to be late again." So I called back:"A bit of a pain in my gulliver. Leave us be and I'll try to sleep it off and then I'll be right as dodgers for this after."

Along the waterfront, burned ships broke slowly into black pieces, and the slant sails of dhows caught fire. Standing off beyond the shallows, dragon prows surveyed the despoiling of the walled town.

It was October and spring. His work was killing small birds. He made his way through grasslands to the south and west of Buenos Ayres travelling like a pilgrim...

He started off and bounded down the nearest passage, between the lines of basalt, while the lion descended the hillock with a roar.

Annie was born in in the wild somewhere in West Africa in 1959.Soon after birth, she was caught by a trader of exotic animals, put in a crate, and shipped to America.

The winter of 1958-59 came, and because it was the first one with seven children in the house, Kurt thought he would lose his mind.Kids were underfoot everywhere, he complained to Knox, and if he tried to go for a walk with the dogs, the snow was knee-deep.

Halloween brings us all closer, in the valley. The Halloween party at the saloon is when we all...realize why we are all up here..

It was his duty to warn Earth...

The easternmost Canary Island is only sixty-seven miles from the Saharan sands of mainland Africa. Spain can claim this land all it wants, but geography still asserts itself from time to time, as a reminder that the islands will always belong to Africa.

Climbing higher, I broke out of the cloud layer into treeless highlands on a bald mountaintop called Pico de Garajonay. The peak is named for the legendary lovers, ara and Jonay.....

"...China's environmental problems are among the most severe of any major country, and are getting worse. The long list ranges from air pollution, biodiversity losses, cropland losses,desertification, disappearing wetlands, grassland degradation,and increasing scale and frequency of human-induced natural disasters....