Tag: Life & Tradition

Whale Watchers Snap Humpback Calf Seeming to Soar Through the Air in Perfectly Timed Photos

A humpback whale calf spotted performing a spectacular breach in Australia appears to soar through the air—and was captured in several perfectly timed photos snapped by a tour guide. “The calf’s first breach was airborne, followed by mom, who did a great effort as well,” whale watching guide Peter Lynch told The Epoch Times. “We…


5 Great Ways to Experience the Grand Canyon

The far rim is so distant, it seems to shimmer in an entirely different reality, another world. A place separated, north from south, by a chasm. Normally, canyons are deep and narrow, slender enough that the floor remains in an almost-perpetual shadow, a little silvery sliver of river snaking at the bottom, a fleeting flash…


Bejeweled Mughal-Era Glasses Expected to Fetch up to $3.5 Million at Auction

Two pairs of bejewelled Mughal-era spectacles set with diamond and emerald lenses are expected to fetch up to $3.5 million each when they are auctioned in London on Wednesday, Oct. 27. The glasses were commissioned by an unknown 17th-century prince, auction house Sotheby’s said, with the precious stone lenses believed to boost spiritual enlightenment. One…


2022 Lexus NX 350/350h

The all-new Lexus NX lineup is expected in showrooms as early as December 2021 with production beginning at Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada in early 2022 The “Next Chapter” for the brand is being further invigorated by the all-new 2022 NX. The announced pricing are: NX 250 FWD – $37,950 NX 250 AWD – $39,550 NX…


What Good Is Poetry? Robert Frost’s ‘The Axe-Helve’: Fitting Axes and Forming Children

I’ve known ere now an interfering branch Of alder catch my lifted axe behind me. But that was in the woods, to hold my hand From striking at another alder’s roots, And that was, as I say, an alder branch. This was a man, Baptiste, who stole one day Behind me on the snow in…


The Best Space Heaters to Keep Heating Costs Under Control

Even though winter is still weeks away, we need to brace now for a rude surprise coming soon. I’m talking about winter heating bills. Natural gas and heating fuel prices are surging. The most efficient and easiest way to keep your home’s winter heating bills under control is to set the main source of heat…


VIDEO: Glassblowing Artist Turns Molten Glass Into Lotus Flowers, Hummingbirds, and Beyond

The fine art of glassblowing is every bit as intimidating as it seems. From impossibly detailed crystalware to the idea of shaping molten glass from a furnace burning at thousand-degree temperatures—imagining anyone making/working with that is just mind blowing. But artists do. And watching them do it is just as amazing as you’d imagine. The craft…


3 Generations of an Arizona Family Beat the Odds Sharing the Same Birthday

Upon learning that her daughter-in-law was pregnant, an Arizona woman had a strong intuition that the baby would be born on her birthday. A birthday that she already shares with her 95-year-old mother. And, she was right. Great-grandmother Gail Loos-Ross, 60-year-old grandmother Shelley Loos Parkhurst, and baby Birdie Eve Mendoza Parkhurst were born on Sept….


VIDEO: Orphaned Baby Grizzly Meets Polar Bear Cub Companion After Arriving at Detroit Zoo

Visitors of Detroit Zoo can now witness the budding friendship between a polar bear cub and orphan baby grizzly at the sight’s renowned Arctic Ring of Life habitat. The adorable white and brown balls of fur can be seen rolling about, swimming, and tussling together in the 4 acres of lush grounds, filled with tall…


The New Essential Guide to the World of Beer

Beer has a story that stretches back to ancient history, reaches into nearly every country on earth, and, in the last couple of decades or so, has entered an incredible new chapter that celebrates standing traditions, resurrects a few nearly forgotten ones, and forges ahead into new territory. That’s a lot to keep up with,…