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Australia
Flinders Ranges 4WD: South Australia’s Best Outback Drive From Adelaide
The Flinders Ranges run for about 430 kilometres up the spine of South Australia, from Crystal Brook in the south…
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Australia
Save the Koala Day: What’s Actually Happening to Australia’s Most Famous Marsupial
Save the Koala Day is the last Friday of September each year. The Australian Koala Foundation has been running it…
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Australia
Kuranda Rainforest Walk: A Day Trip From Cairns That Earns the Detour
Kuranda sits 25 kilometres inland from Cairns, in the Wet Tropics rainforest at about 330 metres above sea level, and…
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Australia
How the United Nations Helped Protect the Great Barrier Reef
The Great Barrier Reef is the largest coral reef system on Earth. It stretches 2,300 kilometres along the Queensland coast,…
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USA
Meet the Amish: What an Old-Order Community Knows About Modern Life
About 380,000 Amish live in the United States and Canada. Most of them you’ll never see. The Old Order communities…
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Everything Else
Helicopter Wars: Combat Helicopter History, Tactics and the Pilots Who Fly Them
The helicopter changed warfare more than any single 20th-century weapon system except the atomic bomb. Before Vietnam, ground forces moved…
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Underwater
Ghost Ships of the Great Lakes: Lake Superior’s Underwater Cemetery
Lake Superior is the largest freshwater lake on Earth by surface area, holds about 10% of the world’s accessible surface…
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USA
Cycling’s Greatest Fraud: How Lance Armstrong Got Away With It For So Long
Seven Tour de France yellow jerseys. The most successful cancer-recovery sports story of the 2000s. A foundation that raised hundreds…
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Everything Else
Car SOS: How a Two-Person Crew Brings Dead Classic Cars Back to Life
Most television about cars is either supercar pornography (one company you’ve never heard of, a hypercar you’ll never see, a…
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Everything Else
The Story of God with Morgan Freeman: Six Faiths, One Set of Questions
Morgan Freeman has the voice. That’s the obvious thing. The less obvious thing is that he also has the curiosity.…
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