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Strangest Travel Jobs In The World (PHOTOS)

Airports have known for a long time that birds can pose problems to airplane engines, and have come up with different ways of combating the issue. Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport, for example, has a robotic hawk to scare birds away. But if you’d like to get a job keeping the birds at bay, inquire at Zürich Airport, which employs three hunters to shoot the potentially damaging creatures.

And airport hunters are just one of the strangest jobs in the travel industry. When Travel + Leisure searched the globe for the most offbeat tasks, they came up with some surprising professions.

In fact, many offbeat travel-industry jobs involve keeping Mother Nature at bay. Full article here…

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Jul

Mid-point of Summer: What’s on Your Indiana To Do List?

Today is July 1. In just six weeks, my kids go back to school. Thats left me juggling the calendar to figure out how to fit in everything we want to do before leaving the freedom of summer behind us. Heres whats on our list:

Holiday World & Splashin Safari Its an annual tradition. Two days are a must. One for the amusement park, one for the water park.
Fort Wayne Tin Caps Game Yes, we have minor league baseball in Indianapolis, but Parkview Field in downtown Fort Wayne is worth the drive. Ive been there once, in the rain. It was enough to entice me to come back on a nice day.
Mesker Park Zoo & Botanic Garden A trip to Evansville, my husbands hometown, is always on the agenda.

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Jul

Gap year students killed in Thailand bus crash

Bruno Melling-Firth, Conrad Quashie and Max Boomgaarden-Cook were on a coach bound for the northern town of Chiang Mai, when it collided with another bus in the early hours of Tuesday morning.

Another two Britons on board survived the accident, the Foreign Office said, and one was being treated for his injuries in hospital in Bangkok.

The accident happened in Khlong Khlung, in the Kamphaeng Phet Province, and reports suggested that the three men had been killed instantly.

The friends had flown out to Thailand last Thursday for their nine-week “trip of a lifetime” before going to university in September, the father of 19-year-old Mr Boomgaarden-Cook said.

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Jul

Independence Day as Celebrated Around the World

As San Francisco gets ready to shoot off fireworks and people all over the Bay Area break out their barbecue grills and coolers in honor of Independence Day, you may be wondering how other countries celebrate their successes in overthrowing oppressive foreign rule. Here are some of the ways that Independence Day is enjoyed throughout the world:

Belize

People in Belize celebrate their independence from the British on September 21. The Central American country really knows how to party; their Independence Day is near the end of three weeks of festivities. For

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Jul

Bishop Museum in Hawaii awards Kirch with Gregory Medal

HONOLULU, Hawaii – Bishop Museum has named Dr. Patrick Vinton Kirch, UC Berkeley professor of Anthropology and Integrative Biology, as the recipient of its prestigious Herbert E. Gregory Medal for Distinguished Service to Science in the Pacific Region. Awarded every four years, the medal was established by Bishop Museum in 1961 to honor the memory of Herbert E. Gregory, the museum’s second director who served from 1919 to 1936, and his role as founder of the Pacific Science Association (PSA).

“Dr. Kirch exemplifies the accomplishments, leadership, and vision that are inherent in the criteria for the Herbert E. Gre

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