Posted on March 17th, 2008 in Canada News
NEW ORLEANS - Louisiana tourism officials have unveiled the first 26 sites on an African American Heritage Trail running from New Orleans to northern Louisiana.
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Posted on March 17th, 2008 in Canada News
WASHINGTON - Most of the cherry trees circling the Tidal Basin should be in peak bloom when the National Cherry Blossom Festival begins later this month, according to the National Park Service.
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Posted on March 13th, 2008 in Canada News
Gone are the days when learn’d scholars selected the wonders of the world. In addition to the global
7 Wonders project, the erstwhile Radio-Canada presents 21 contenders for the “
7 Wonders of Greater Montreal.” Listeners/readers are to vote among the field of 21. Seems hardly fair to stack the deck with God-approved churches like the […]
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Posted on March 13th, 2008 in Canada News
Is there no stopping the nightlife scourge known as the ice bar? Apparently not.
Sub Zero — actually its full name is “Grey Goose Sub Zero,” in honor of the sponsoring vodka — is perched atop Montreal’s
Hotel Place d’Armes. The space is kept at -1 centigrade, and all the usual ice-crap is on offer: […]
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Posted on March 11th, 2008 in Canada News
At a time of year when people tour sugar bushes and consume stacks of pancakes with maple syrup, a local brewer offers its own take on the season: maple beer.
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Posted on March 11th, 2008 in Canada News
By English standards, Manchester is not old. In 1750, Manchester was little more than a village but when the Industrial Revolution of the 18th and 19th centuries took hold, it rapidly became an economic powerhouse.
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Posted on March 11th, 2008 in Canada News
Pack some blue clothes if you’re heading to Aruba this month. National Anthem and Flag day is March 18, a time when nearly everyone gets dressed up in Larkspur blue to take part in various island-wide events.
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Posted on March 11th, 2008 in Canada News
The ghost orchid is among the world’s rarest flowers, the star of the popular book The Orchid Thief and the movie adaptation and is the biggest lure to the Fakahatchee Strand Preserve State Park.
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Posted on March 11th, 2008 in Canada News
Sports travel company Roadtrips is inviting baseball fans to join its 2008 multi-city tour and say farewell to New York City’s Yankee Stadium.
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Posted on March 11th, 2008 in Canada News
Garden shows are springing up all over offering sights, sounds and smells to brighten these lingering days of winter.
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