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Savannah is my kind of city. Walkable. Unhurried. More front porches than agendas. You don’t visit Savannah to check boxes. You visit to slow down and remember what a GREAT day can feel like.
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America's fastest ocean liner is about to become the world's largest artificial reef.
The 990-foot SS United States set a transatlantic speed record in 1952. Today, she's scheduled to be sunk off the Florida coast.
Quite a final chapter for a ship that made American history.
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105 years ago today, an unidentified American soldier from World War I was laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery.
The guards at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier still take 21 steps during their watch, a tribute to the 21-gun salute.
Carved into the tomb are four words: “Known but to God.”
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Every Veterans Day at 11:11 a.m., sunlight passes through five marble pillars at the Anthem Veterans Memorial in Arizona, illuminating the Great Seal of the United States.
The memorial was designed to make this happen at that exact moment each year.
What a beautiful tribute to those who served.
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World War I didn't end the moment the armistice was signed.
On November 11, 1918, the agreement was signed in a railway carriage in a French forest shortly after 5 a.m. But the fighting wouldn't officially stop until 11 a.m.
Soldiers continued to die in those final hours, even though an agreement to end the fighting had already been reached.
World War I didn't end the moment the armistice was signed.
On November 11, 1918, the agreement was signed in a railway carriage in a French forest shortly after 5 a.m. But the fighting wouldn't officially stop until 11 a.m.
Soldiers continued to die in those final hours, even though an agreement to end the fighting had already been reached.
105 years ago today, an unidentified American soldier from World War I was laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery.
The guards at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier still take 21 steps during their watch, a tribute to the 21-gun salute.
Carved into the tomb are four words: “Known but to God.”
America's fastest ocean liner is about to become the world's largest artificial reef.
The 990-foot SS United States set a transatlantic speed record in 1952. Today, she's scheduled to be sunk off the Florida coast.
Quite a final chapter for a ship that made American history.
Anna Karenina is one of those books that stays with you long after you've finished it.
If you've never read Tolstoy, this would be a great way to start. Especially with a group to discuss it with.
Ok everyone — it's time to tackle one of the greatest novels of all time.
Anna Karenina, Tolstoy.
PLEASE BE AWARE: this book will stare right into the depths of your soul. Through the parallel stories of Anna and Levin, Tolstoy exposes the deepest conflicts of the heart: of the war between passion and conscience, between freedom and duty.
You are free to keep pursuing "happiness." But are you ready to confront that which makes life truly worth living?
If you've been on the fence about joining the book club, now's the time. Few works of literature will change you like this one.
We'll read it together over the next 6–7 weeks, and discuss in three parts:
• Discussion 1 (Nov. 24) — Parts 1–2
• Discussion 2 (Dec. 8) — Parts 3–5
• Discussion 3 (Dec. 22) — Parts 6–8
Every week, we will send you our reading guides for the chapters in question.
To join our inner circle group and participate in the live discussions directly, please support our mission with a paid membership. It makes a HUGE difference to the time we can commit to this.
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25% off FULL book club membership.
You'll get:
• Live book club discussions (biweekly)
• Access to our incredible community chat
• Essays to guide you through the Great Books
• All past recordings, essays, and podcasts
• Ability to vote on what we read next
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Join our incredible group of readers. Read the greatest works ever written in dialogue with us. You will not regret it.
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In 1902, Yellowstone had just 23 bison left. Poaching had nearly wiped them out.
In 2025, there were almost 5,300.
It's easy to admire a bison in a photo without realizing how close we came to losing them.
Yellowstone had just 23 wild bison left in 1902. What happened next is one of the great wildlife recovery stories in American history.
That year, park officials brought in 21 more bison from private herds in Montana and Texas. The goal was to rebuild a population that had nearly disappeared after decades of hunting and poaching.
The new arrivals were first kept near Mammoth Hot Springs before being moved to Lamar Valley, where the government established a buffalo ranch to help raise and protect them.
Eventually, those bison began mixing with the small wild herd that had managed to survive.
Visit Lamar Valley today and you'll likely see bison grazing across the grasslands, sometimes in herds of hundreds. It's hard to imagine that a little over a century ago, park officials were raising them behind fences just to keep the population going.
Here's something else I found interesting. Yellowstone is the only place in the lower 48 states where wild bison have lived continuously since prehistoric times.
I've always thought places become more interesting when you know what happened there. Yellowstone is a perfect example. You can spend hours watching the wildlife without realizing how close some of it came to disappearing.
I share more stories like this in the Timeless Traveler, my newsletter about travel, history, and places worth exploring.
If you enjoy learning the stories behind the places we visit, I think you'll like it.
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Every Veterans Day at 11:11 a.m., sunlight passes through five marble pillars at the Anthem Veterans Memorial in Arizona, illuminating the Great Seal of the United States.
The memorial was designed to make this happen at that exact moment each year.
What a beautiful tribute to those who served.
The Faroe Islands are 18 volcanic islands in the North Atlantic where sheep outnumber people and some houses still have grass growing on their roofs.
In Gásadalur, a waterfall drops straight off a cliff into the ocean. And wherever you go, you're never more than three miles from the sea.
Route 66 turns 100 tomorrow, and Tulsa is throwing a party.
The Mother Road was established on Nov. 11, 1926. Tulsa has a special place in its history: Cyrus Avery, known as the Father of Route 66, called the city home.
Have you ever driven any stretch of it?
In 1926, some 150,000 people gathered in Kansas City to watch President Calvin Coolidge dedicate the Liberty Memorial.
Tomorrow marks 100 years since that day. The memorial is now part of the National WWI Museum and Memorial, where veterans can visit for free on Veterans Day.
The Marine Corps turns 251 today. In 1775, some of its earliest recruits signed up at a Philadelphia tavern.
The original Tun Tavern is gone, but you can have lunch at a restaurant modeled after it inside the National Museum of the Marine Corps in Virginia.
I’m taking H. Prague, Vienna, Bavaria, the Austrian Alps, and all those beautiful little towns in Germany.
I could spend the rest of my life exploring that part of Europe and never get bored.
Anyone think there’s a better choice?
51 years ago today, the Edmund Fitzgerald went down in a storm on Lake Superior. All 29 men aboard were lost.
This afternoon at Split Rock Lighthouse, their names will be read as a ship's bell tolls. Afterward, the lighthouse beacon will be lit in their honor.
I grew up in Alabama, so Waffle House was always going to be my answer. I've been a fan for years, and I'll take it over IHOP any day.
To be candid, I've never understood the hype around IHOP. It's overrated.
There's a tiny church on top of a 130-foot limestone pillar in Georgia.
It's called Katskhi Pillar, and it rises almost straight out of the forest.
Visitors can't climb to the church, but I'd make the trip just to stand at the bottom and look up.
