A short hike just outside Binghamton can lead people to a spot where they can enjoy a spectacular sight of the Parlor City. The special place is near Wittman Dam in the town of Dickinson. It's just above the location where Broome County officials once considered building a massive trash-bu...
June's full moon is commonly known as the strawberry moon, a name that comes from the Algonquin Native American tribe in the northeastern U.S. and eastern Canada and refers to the region's strawberry harvesting season (not the moon's actual hue). ...
Located in Utah, Bryce Canyon National Park is popular for weathered rocks also known as hoodoos, formed around 65 million years ago, in the Colorado terrains. These hoodoos of rock formations create amphitheatre-like structures at the park, in colours of red, brown, and white, on an area...
everything the Beatles would one day be. Inventive in that it has no chorus as such, this is a key early moment for another reason: It’s one of the first Beatles songs with a complete story. They were just getting started, of course. There'd be many more to tell. ...
What southern blacks knew as hoodoo, Haitians knew as Vodou. In “Vodou Imagery, African American Tradition, and Cultural Transformation in Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God,” essayist Daphne Lamothe writes that Hurston’s novel has allusions to Vodou “so embedded into the ...
Nigel Calder takes the pulse of science, as the author of Magic Universe and Einstein's Universe. He checks predictions of the past half-century, to see how they worked out. And his hand is on the brow of frenzied climatology, as a co-author of The Chill
Sunset Crater is not an active volcano. It formed about 1000 years ago. While you are there, you can get up close and examine many features of the Bonito and Kana-a Lava Flows. You will learn how lava flows can be a significant barrier to humans.Wizard...