EXPLORER OF CITIES

Texas is home to a variety of different and uniquely named places. As a matter of fact, Texas is home to 6,610 municipalities. It's no wonder why many Texas cities and counties share or derive their name with other famous cities within the US.

Maybe you know that Portuguese is the official language of Brazil, but maybe not that it is the seventh-most spoken language in the world, the third-most spoken language in Europe.

An article about the life of Christopher Columbus and his influence on modern day views of the new world.

In the year 1295 A. D., after an absence of twenty-four years, Maffeo, Nicolo, and Marco Polo returned to their hometown of Venice, Italy. The Polo trio looked like strangers to their fellow citizens: they wore bizarre and ragged clothes and spoke in an accented tongue.

The things we think we want the most are often neither what we thought they were nor so very hard to find at all. Solutions can arise if we simply look to where they are and not merely where we're told to look.

My aging SUV was big and guzzled gas, but not as much as you might think. I took care of it and it took care of me. Though I've downsized since, I remember my Ford Explorer fondly.

Part of the magic of Australia is discovering its numerous historic towns and villages. Robe, South Australia, is this type of town.

Purchased in 1803, and doubling the size of the Country, the 18th State contains a rich, vibrant history that includes such notable elements as New Orleans, the French Quarter, Mardi Gras, bayous, famous plantations, and so much more.

Interested in the real man made landscape of the USA? Curious about the actual industrial and post industrial land use? The Culver City based Center for Land Use Interpretation is an explorer's resource.

Dore the Esplorer Live: The Search for the City of Lost Toys is a fun time for the preschool set and brings a smile to the child in each one of us. ickets and incidentals may cost a bit, but it's worth it.

An overview of the top five Roleplaying games of 2008.

Tracks the history of timepieces from the earliest sundials through to atomic clocks that can be accurate to a billionth of a second per day.

Just because your child is afraid to trick or treat, it doesn't mean that they can't have fun on Halloween. There are many un-scary ways for kids to have fun on Halloween.

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Short history of Texas' largest coastal city.

This is a look at the early years of slavery and an early African American writer Lucy Terry.

The Ecole d'Extreme Orient began a painstaking restoration of Angkor's magnificent temples that managed to survive the Khemer Rouge and attracts visitors to this day.

This is a brief history of the rise and fall of the Mughal Empire in India.

The Mojave Desert has beautiful landscape and intriguing manmade curios. However, housing developments and the march of human progress is destroying this beautiful land.