Global quirky museum map website for nerdy trips
A user generated map at nerdydaytrips com lets travelers share and discover eccentric museums and pit stops across the United States Europe and beyond The map highlights locations like Jantar Mantar Jaipur and the tallest sand dune in Arcachon France while noting navigation and category limitations for easier trip planning.
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Nerdydaytrips.com
Jen Lee
Los Angeles Times
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United Kingdom
Europe
Australia
Jaipur
India
Arcachon
France
Harper Trucks hand trucks recall and hazard alert
Harper Trucks Inc recalls hand trucks sold at Home Depot from September 2008 to March 2009 and Sam's Club from January 1993 to January 2002. Overinflated tires can explode, ejecting hub components and causing injuries. About 292,000 units affected with 19 reported injuries. For information contact Harper Trucks toll free at 800-835-4099 or harp ertrucks.com.
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Harper Trucks Inc
Wichita
Kan
Home Depot
Sam’s Club
Harper
Harpertrucks
Russian cargo ship launches to space station mission
The unmanned Progress M-13M blasted off from Baikonur cosmodrome at 2:11 p.m. Moscow time, clearing the way for the next manned mission and easing fears after a prior failed launch. Mission Control spokesman Valery Lyndin confirmed the schedule.
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Moscow
International Space Station
Baikonur Cosmodrome
Kazakhstan
Valery Lyndin
Northeast Nor'easter Leaves Millions Powerless After Snow
A pre Halloween storm dumped up to two feet of wet heavy snow across the Northeast, snapping trees and knocking out power to more than 3 million homes and businesses from Maryland to Maine. Officials said restoration would take days as record October snowfall and tree damage strained grids. Plainfield and Windsor in western Massachusetts reported 27 and 26 inches respectively as the system moved north.
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Windsor
Conn
National Weather Service
Chris Vaccaro
Maryland
Maine
Massachusetts
Plainfield
Court ends union strikes and Qantas grounding resolved
An Australian court ended a bitter labor dispute with unions, lifting strikes and staff lockouts at Qantas. The ruling, a major victory, followed the sudden grounding of all 108 aircraft, costing 20 million dollars daily and halting 600 flights over months. CEO Alan Joyce anticipated resuming flights as regulators approve a limited schedule soon.
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Canberra
Australia
Qantas Airways
Arbitration Court
Qantas
Alan Joyce
Three dead in Kansas grain elevator blast
Rescue efforts ended at the Bartlett Grain elevator in Atchison as three workers remain missing after a Saturday night explosion that killed three and sent two others to hospitals with severe burns. Crews suspended searching due to safety fears and possible structural collapse. The blast shook into Missouri, tore a hole in a silo, and left thick smoke still rising from the damaged facility.
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Kan
Kansas
Missouri
Kansas City
Bartlett Grain Co
Trey Cocking
Prosecutions rise for war zone crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan
Two government reports released Sunday show a growing number of U S military and civilian personnel facing indictments and convictions for bribery theft and related crimes tied to reconstruction efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan. A Marine returned home with forty three thousand dollars in stolen cash hidden in a footlocker among American flags while another soldier concealed thousands more in a toy stuffed animal. An embassy employee allegedly tricked the State Department into wiring two hundred forty thousand dollars into a foreign bank account.
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Washington
Iraq
State Department
Afghanistan
U.S
Skeptic Richard Muller Confirms Global Warming Reality
Richard Muller, a noted climate skeptic, spent two years evaluating data to test mainstream science. He found land temperatures about 1.6 degrees warmer than the 1950s, aligning with NOAA and NASA, and concluding warming is real.
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Washington
Richard Muller
Muller
University of California, Berkeley
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NASA
Benjamin Franklin
Thomas Jefferson
Flight attendant found dead in Mexico City hotel
A US Airways flight attendant from Phoenix, Nick Aaronson, 33, was found murdered in a Mexico City Hilton room during a layover. Prosecutors report he was found naked on the floor with hands tied behind his back, showing beating and choking marks. No drugs or weapons were found. autopsy planned.
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US Airways
Mexico City
Nick Aaronson
Hilton
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