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World’s Most-Visited Tourist Attractions

Sep 24th, 2011
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Embrace the wisdom of crowds by adding the world’s most visited tourist attractions on your Bucket List.

Ever heard of Everland and Lotte World? Most Americans have never planned a trip to the South Korean amusement parks, but they rank among the world’s 50 most visited tourist attractions, beat the great pyramids (4 million), Taj Mahal (3 million) and Stonehenge (1 million). And there are more surprises.

How we choose to spend our vacation time, says a lot about what we value, and despite or perhaps because of-the continuing global economic crisis, we travel more than ever. International tourists were up 6.6 percent in 2010 according to World Tourism Organization. China deposed Spain as the third most visited country with 55.7 million foreign arrivals, while France and the U.S. held their first and second place ranking.

Like it or not, amusement parks just as appealing in these countries when they are in South Korea. Disneyland Paris drew the same number of visitors (10.5 million) as the Sacre-Coeur, and two of the world’s 10 most visited tourist attractions are Disney parks. America also dominates our list. Some credit goes to the weak U.S. dollar, which drew 8.7 percent more foreign tourists in 2010 than the previous year and probably caused many Americans to explore within our vast borders.

To tally up the world’s most visited attractions, we gathered the latest information from the sites themselves or from government agencies, industry reports, and reputable media. So what is the most visited tourist attraction in the world? And 39.2 million people can be wrong?

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No. 1 Times Square, New York City

No. 2 Central Park, New York City

No. 3 Union Station, Washington, D.C.

No. 4 Las Vegas Strip

No. 5 Niagara Falls, New York and Ontario

Sixties Bands – Music was so loud and so heavy

Sep 16th, 2011
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Jim Morrison Portrait Sixties Bands Music was so loud and so heavy

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Music was so loud and so heavy that it did have an aggressive quality—so that it is no surprise that in 1969 a group formed that called itself War.

This use of high culture came from the fact that a new socio-ethnic group entered popular music in the years 1964-69: middle-class white kids who had gone to good suburban high schools as well as college. Aside from the Motown groups, Sly and the Family Stone, Jimi Hendrix, Otis Redding, and a few others, the major rock acts were white. Let’s take the personnel of the following sixties bands: Buffalo Springfield, The Byrds, The Doors, Iron Butterfly, Jefferson Airplane, the Lovin’ Spoonful, and the Mamas and the Papas. In the specific case of the Buffalo Springfield, the group consisted of: Neil Young, Stephen Stills, Richle Furay, Dewey Martin, and Bruce Palmer. No ethnic names there at all. In fact, there are only three ethnic names in all of these groups put together: Zal Yankowski of the Lovin’ Spoonful (Jewish); Ray Manzarek of The Doors (Czech); and Norma Kaukonen of the Jefferson Airplane (Finnish).

Elvis Jailhouse Rock Tin Sign – Elvis Dancing with Jail Costume

Sep 16th, 2011
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The first two Elvis Presley albums, both on RCA in 1956, neatly illustrate the basic dichotomy: Elvis Presley shows him onstage, eyes shut and mouth wide open, with his guitar thrust in the air, while Elvis has him seated in a staged pose, strumming his guitar. Here is the musician, they seem to say, and here are his musical instruments, his primary materials: his voice and his guitar.

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Sep 16th, 2011
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Until 1950 the term teenagers had never before been coined. The word “teenage” had first appeared in the popular press in the 1920s, but the idea that there was a time of life between childhood and adulthood that could be isolated, and that had its own peculiar characteristics, belongs largely to the 1950s. Children were known as girls and boys were known as youths once they displayed signs of puberty. Then young people were grown up at 18 and fully adult legally at 21 when they often married and set up a home of their own, even if it was a rented room.

Northern Lights in Blue Night Sky Photographic Print

Sep 9th, 2011
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Northern lights is an ancient astronomical phenomena. The old Nordic culture called it “spirit dance” and said the lights were reflected light from oceans of fire. Northern peoples believed that the auroras were places of the dead. With ancient beliefs about the marvelous polar auroras behind us, today’s science can understand the curtains of shining and billowing lights for the natural spectacle of energy.

The magnetosphere of the Earth emanates from the north pole, and located directly above them are magnetic sinkholes where solar winds and radiation seep into the ionosphere layer of our atmosphere. The solar winds are a continuous flow of subatomic particles from the Sun’s atmosphere that pass throughout our entire solar system. As the energy from the Sun comes in contact with the magnetosphere, the energized solar particles, mainly electrons and protons, follow the magnetic lines and get drawn to the poles.

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Statue of Liberty & New York City Skyline Art Print

Sep 8th, 2011
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New Yorkers are friendly but rushed (or at least they always seem to be). Policemen are quite helpful, know the city well and will be glad to assist you in any way they can. New York is a quite formal and well dressed city. Women are very clothes conscious, particularly those seen on the fashionable shopping streets. Normal meal hours follow this pattern: breakfast 8 – 10; lunch 12 – 2; dinner 6 – 8:30; or somewhat later of dinner parties or on weekend nights.

Mo Mullan’s New York City Pop Art Print

Sep 8th, 2011
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Pop art style panoramic view silhouttes of New York City’s skyline shows the United Nations building on the left, Statue of Liberty abd Rockefeller Center Building. Art print also shows New’yok’s yellow cab taxi, red bus and American flag’s stars. New York’s financial district Manhattan seen on poster.

Important foreign groups include Austrian, French Canadian, English Canadian, Czech, Chinese, Danish, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Latin American, Northern Irish, Norvegian, Polish, Rumanian, Russian, Scotch, Spanish, Swedish, Swiss, Turkish, West Indian. To locate people of a particular nationality group, check the listings in the New York telephone book under name of the particular group. The Common Council for American Unity at 20 W. 40th St. maintains complete records of all nationality groups, religious and secular, within the country.

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New York Hilton & Sheraton Hotels – Top New York Hotels

Sep 2nd, 2011
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THE NEW YORK HILTON – At Rockefeller Center 1335 Avenue of the Americas

The height of luxury in the heart of the city. A businessman’s and tourist paradise. One block from Fifth Avenue’s top shops. Exciting international hotel with a staff that speaks more than twenty-five languages. Elaborate suites and two unique duplex Penthouses with floor-to-ceiling windows … children of any age stay free in the same room as their parents. Diversions: The International Promenade, lobby cocktail lounge perfect for people watching. Old Bourbon Steak House, Mississippi River Boat dining room for prime beef and seafood specialties. Kismet Lounge for exotic drinks and hors d’oeuvres at cocktail hour in Eastern atmosphere. Music most evenings. The Taveerne, Dutch Coffee House on lower concourse for breakfast, lunch, dinner and supper. Mirage cocktail lounge, elegant Manhattan oasis. Unusual drinks, complimentary hors doeuvres at cocktail time, piano music.

THE NEW YORK SHERATON – Seventh Avenue and 53th Street

A favorite of businessmen, families, tourists; within a short walking distance to the Coliseum, Central Park, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, theatre district (Broadway) and smart Fifth Avenue shopping. Diversions: Sally’s, an old New York bar “beautiful booze, beautiful people” and dancing. Entertainment nightly (except Sunday). No cover, no minimum. The Pavilion, a coffee house, breakfast, lunch, dinner and supper. The Pizza Park, The Falstaff Room, luncheon and dinner.

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Black & White Beach & Sunset Exotic Photo – Hawaii Islands

Aug 30th, 2011
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Look out for perfume, native jams and jellies, hand-blocked linens, silk, shell and black-and-pink coral jewelry and attractive loose-flowing ladies’ muumuus. Hawaii is also a good place for Chinese and Japanese curios and other Asian goods. The International Market Place (2330 Kalakaua Avenue) is a shopping area specializing in arts and crafts from the Pacific area. Ala Moana Shopping Center (1450 Ala Moana Boulevard) is the largest in the world and the 155 stores here supply just about everything. Sears Roebuck department store in the center, specializes in locally-made goods.

Fort St Mall and the Kahala Mall are two oter popular shopping areas. Liberty House and NcIvverny are excellent stores with several branches in Waikiki and Honolulu. At Ceramics Hawaii (629c Cooke Street) pottery is made to order by some of the island’s best potters. Harry’s Cabinet & Curio Factory (260 Kalihi Street) has attractive wood carvings, both domestic and decorative. For first-rate Japanese goods there is Toji’s (1259 S Beretania Street).

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Aug 30th, 2011
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Hawaii is the largest of the islands. It is famous for the spectacular fiery rumblings of its active volcanoes and the beauty of its countless varieties of orchids – Hawaii has the world’s largest orchid-growing industry. Set amid these colors floral fields is Hilo, second largest city in the islands. Hotels are: Namiloa, Hilo, Lagoon Hotel and Orchid Island Travelodge. Volcano House, high up on Kilauea crater, is the best center for exploring the unearthly region of Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. A trail leads through a romantic forest and out into the cracked lava of Halemamaumau, the crater within the crter, looking like the end of the world. Other park routes lead to spooky Devastation Trail and the Chain of Craters Road (check with Park HQ before hking). West of Kilauea is Mauna Loa, the world’s largest volcanic mountain with a forest of rare trees and birds on its slopes. Alaska Falls, 15 miles North of Hilo, is a lovely waterfall set in magnificient tropical gardens.

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