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Last summer I was flying to the UK when I met a family flying from Auckland to London. They were trying to fly from Auckland to London. They had gotten to Los Angeles, where they were supposed to get a direct flight to London Heathrow. But that flight got canceled and they had to get another itinerary, which they thought, was routed through Florida. Imagine their surprise when they wound up next to lake Michigan.
ORD Stands for Orchard: A History of Airport Codes
In 1906, a famed explorer saw something on the horizon that would lead an expedition of men to search for a magnificent land they hoped would be full of new and undiscovered treasures for science.
One famous dolphin lived near the shores of New Zealand in the late 1800s, and swam alongside hundreds of ships, becoming a beloved figure to locals and foreigners alike, and described as ”the best known fish in the world.”
It was relatively common in the middle ages for Kings, royals, and various other titled men to die in combat, and they were at least usually expected to fight personally. Despite the dangers of medieval combat and the expectations of nobility, however, many at the highest levels of aristocracy died in less than noble mundane accidents, and even in embarrassing circumstances.
While the Bulge was one of the final offensive operations, it was not the last one - and not even the last one on the Western Front. While the Battle of the Bulge was being fought, German planners launched another operation further south into France in the much less remembered Operation Nordwind.
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On July 12, 2025, the lodge on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon was burned down in the Dragon Bravo fire, along with dozens of other structures including the North Rim visitor center and numerous guest cabins. The lodge was a storied structure that had stood for nearly 100 years, but it wasn’t the first time that a lodge on the North Rim burned down.
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