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Amanda Syrowatka, a travel expert and director of the Viceroy Bali resort in Indonesia, suggests to people who are planning a vacation that they "focus on experiences that fuel your passion," then select a destination where they are available. Richard Burgon, who provides advice and assistance about recreational vehicles on his rovinrv.com ...Read more

About 30,000 years ago, groups of people crossed over from present-day Siberia to Alaska before moving on and settling along the Atlantic seaboard of today's United States. Their descendants became the Lenape tribe, part of the Algonquin nation whose members lived in what now is New Jersey.

These people were followed by Jeremiah Leeds, a ...Read more

I recently was enjoying a leisurely stroll along a path that leads through a treasure-trove of various architectural styles, museum-quality displays of art and floral plantings that would make any gardener proud. I was walking the High Line, the elevated former railway that runs 30 feet above street level down the west side of Manhattan, New ...Read more

Around 1857, a man named Gerat Hollenberg and his wife, Sophia, built a modest wood-shingled house in present-day Kansas, four years before the territory became a state. The structure also served as a grocery store, tavern and unofficial post office for immigrants following the Oregon-California Trails. Three years later it became one of the ...Read more

People walking along a thoroughfare in Silver Spring, Maryland, just outside of Washington, D.C., pass beneath a line of abstract paintings attached to the side of a building. Each includes a quote attributed to a famous historic figure.

"Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself," instructs Marcus Aurelius, the stoic philosopher and ...Read more