Home to Africa
It will take about 20 hours to fly from Calgary to Johannesburg, a relatively brief journey when you consider that the outbound leg of the trip took 200,000 years.
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Making Big Rocks into Little Rocks
If customers couldn’t crush gravel for lack of manganese cones, they couldn’t make payments on their loans.
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The Fine and Dandy Club
Arcola’s Fuller Brush Man was a charismatic character, he reminded me of Guy Smiley, from the Muppets.
Abbey Road
I need your help solving a mystery – there are prizes.
Here Comes the Sun
“Here comes the sun, and I say, it’s all right” – The Beatles
Room 873
Darkness comes early in the shade of the Rocky Mountains. As gloom ascended, the mood of the Banff Springs Hotel darkened with it.
Dream Day
Doing good deeds for lost children is not the usual stuff of dreams.
Riding Unicorns on the Moon
Images of Lunarians going about their daily lives captivated the public’s imagination.
When Kerchunking Was Normal
In 1986 Amazon was a river, and the only mouse involved was one I chased out from behind the storage container.
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On The Menu
It came as a shock to see this nocturnal visitor, stalking prey right under our bedroom window.