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2022-06-06 Japanese Man Becomes Oldest Person to Sail Solo Across Pacific

A Japanese man has become the oldest person to complete a solo, non-stop sailing trip across the Pacific Ocean. Eighty-three-year-old Kenichi…

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2022-06-06 Turkey Wants to Be Known as ‘Türkiye’

The United Nations confirmed earlier this month that it had accepted a request from Turkey to change the country’s official…

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2018-07-03 America’s Birthplace: Independence National Historical Park

This week, our U.S. National Parks journey takes us to the eastern city of Philadelphia, an important place in American…

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2017-02-10 National Parks Traveler Relives History in Southeastern US

American Mikah Meyer has an unusual goal. He wants to visit all of the more than 400 properties operated by…

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2016-12-30 A National Park for the Father of Parks

The U.S. National Park Service has been celebrating its 100th anniversary in 2016. Woodrow Wilson, America’s 28th president, established the…

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2016-12-23 There’s Something for Everyone at Olympic National Park

This week in our national parks journey, we explore a vast area with mountains, beaches, forests, and glaciers. The area’s huge range in…

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2016-12-16 Voyageurs National Park: A Land of Lakes

The state of Minnesota is known as the land of 10,000 lakes. Our national park this week protects four major…

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2016-12-09 Petrified Forest National Park: Ancient and Spectacular

This week on our national parks journey, we travel to the southwestern state of Arizona. There, we find a strange…

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2016-12-02 Virgin Islands National Park: America’s Paradise

This week on our national parks journey, we leave the United States mainland and travel down to the Caribbean. There,…

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2016-11-25 Glacier Bay: A Land Reborn

This week in our travels through America’s national parks, we revisit the state of Alaska. The northernmost state is home…

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2016-11-18 Risks and Rewards at Zion National Park

The state of Utah is home to five major national parks. They are among the most famous parks in the…

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2016-11-04 Underwater Exploration at Biscayne National Park

This week on our national parks journey, we head to southern Florida. Here, you will find blue-green seas, marine wildlife, and islands…

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2016-10-28 Mammoth Cave: Grand and Gloomy

This week on our national parks journey, we head to the southeastern state of Kentucky. Here you will find rolling…

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2016-10-21 Wrangell-St. Elias: The Largest National Park in America

Today we are visiting a vast and remote park in the state of Alaska. The park is bigger than the country of Switzerland. It…

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