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The best historic hotels of 2016 are ...

9 years 11 months ago
United States President Franklin Roosevelt wrote one of his most famous lines ever, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself," at the The Mayflower Hotel in Washington, on the eve of his 1933 inaugural address.

Harnessing the awesome power of magma

9 years 11 months ago
Iceland is about to tap into water as hot as lava. Several kilometers below ground, a drilling rig named Thor will soon penetrate the area around a magma chamber, where molten rock from the inner Earth heats up water that has seeped through the seafloor. This water -- up to 1,000°C and saturated with corrosive chemicals -- will eventually be piped up to the surface and its heat turned into usable energy.

Houston's Chinatown: Spicing it up, Asian-Cajun style

9 years 11 months ago
When you hear the word "Chinatown," you probably think of the 19th-century buildings and steep-graded streets of San Francisco, or the steaming manhole covers of chilly New York City: compact but dense areas packed with pedestrians accessed via ornate Far Eastern gateways.

The most coveted timepieces of 2016

9 years 11 months ago
For the sixth year, Salon QP, London's prestigious boutique watch fair, is taking over Saatchi Gallery, giving visitors a chance to see some of the year's most exciting new watches.
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