Wild West Ghost Town Emerges from Watery Grave
MORE ABOUT AMERICA Is America Really 11 Different Countries? What Happens When Americans Tweet What They Eat Why Small US Towns Embrace Their Weirdness Drought conditions in the Western part of the United States have allowed an old Nevada town once submerged deep beneath Lake Mead to emerge from its watery grave. Founded in 1865, […]
What Happens When Americans Eat What They Tweet
If Americans eat what they tweet, a new series of maps explains why certain U.S. states have a higher percentage of obese people than others. WHAT THE MOST OBESE US STATES TWEET ABOUT MOST Mississippi: cake, eating West Virginia: cookies, watching TV Louisiana: chocolate, eating Arkansas: chocolate, eating Oklahoma: chocolate, running For eight months, University […]
America’s Amazing Weather Photography
From tornadoes to hurricanes, the government agency known as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is the primary source of weather data, forecasts and warnings for the United States and its territories. NOAA recently held a “Weather in Focus” photography contest recognizing photographers who captured compelling images of weather or the science used to […]
Trapped! US Suburban Life Loses its Luster
There was a time when the idea of moving from the city to the suburbs defined success for many Americans; for those masses, owning a house with a white picket fence was the embodiment of the American dream. Suburbs, mostly residential communities within commuting distance of a city, flourished after World War II. Originally, suburbs […]
Computer Plots Ultimate US Road Trip
Many Americans dream of one day shedding life’s responsibilities long enough to drive across the country in a sort of great American road trip. A Michigan college student took that age-old American dream and put a modern spin on it by leaving the heavy lifting to a computer when it comes to planning the most […]
25 Most Popular Places to Visit in US
Big cities and quaint historic towns top the list of most popular places to visit in the United States, according to the travel site, TripAdvisor. New York, Chicago and Charleston, South Carolina were chosen as the top travel destinations in the United States by millions of TripAdvisor users who voted. New York topped the list […]
Premiere US Art Gallery Embraces Genuine Fakes
On any day of the week at one of the nation’s premiere art galleries, you’ll find artists hard at work painting copies of masterpieces by renowned artists who lived centuries ago. “It’s just so generous,” said copyist Pamela Jarrett, a full-time artist. “I lived in Italy for six years. It’s expensive, it’s prohibitive in the […]
Pushy or Nice? Exploring Personality Types of US States
The friendly Southerner, the brash New Yorker, the nice Midwesterner. These are all stereotypes associated with certain U.S. states and regions, but is there any truth to them? To find out, Truity, a personality and career assessment website, surveyed more than 12,000 residents in all 50 states and the District of Columbia to determine whether […]
America’s Happiest State Basks in 21 Hours of Summer Sunshine
America’s happiest state receives annual snowfalls of 300 inches in some areas. On the other hand, the summer sun can glow there for up to 21 hours and high temperatures are in the 60s and 70s (15-21 degrees Celsius). A new 2014 Gallup-Healthways Well-Being index suggests Alaska is home to the happiest Americans, followed by Hawaii, […]
Presidential Libraries Pay Tribute to US Leaders
Franklin D. Roosevelt was the first U.S. president to have a library open to the public that housed his official papers, personal letters and memorabilia. Until then, presidential papers, if they survived at all, tended to go to the Library of Congress, to a public institution that had some relationship to the president, or to […]