Scotland

Trekking through the muddy peat bog on the A'Mhoine peninsula on the remote north coast of Scotland, it seems hard to imagine that within a couple of years, that this remote, beautiful, wetland landscape could be the UK's first spaceport, launching small sate…

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In 1919, the Swiss pilot and photographer Walter Mittelholzer flew over Mont Blanc in a biplane photographing the alpine landscape. Exactly 100 years later, researchers from the University of Dundee in Scotland have recreated his photographs to show the impac…

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It took a trio of price cuts, but singer KT Tunstall has finally sold her Venice bungalow for $2.5 million. Thats about $300,000 more than she paid for it five years ago, records show. A few blocks from Abbot Kinney Boulevard, the charming Craftsman boasts a…

This past Sunday morning, a short but strong earthquake gave the Bay Area a rude awakening. Measuring at a magnitude of 3.5, the tremor jiggled San Francisco’s buildings and bookshelves for several seconds at 8:41 a.m. No damage was reported. But as the San F…

Share to facebookShare to twitterShare to linkedin Biking along the North Coast 500. (Courtesy of Wilderness Scotland) Assynt Heads Up Theres no better way to appreciate the beauty of Assynt t…

On February 25, 1832, the Sydney Monitor reported an arrest for illegal gambling, but not in so many words. Four men—Thomas Cheesman, John Drew, Michael Reardon, and John Webster—were apprehended on Bathurst Street for tossing halfpence coins from a wooden p…

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A few hundred years ago, the beautiful pine marten was found all over the British Isles. But over the 18th and 19th centuries gamekeepers at shooting estates largely wiped them out as they sought to protect their stocks of game birds. And by the early 20th …