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The most spectacular anti-lava effort in history occurred on the Icelandic island of Heimaey in 1973.

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Though President Grover Cleveland declared Labor Day a national holiday in 1894, the occasion was first observed on Sept. 5, 1882, in…
In 1887, Oregon became the first state to make Labor Day an official holiday, with Colorado, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and New York…
The most spectacular anti-lava effort in history occurred on the Icelandic island of Heimaey in 1973.
A surprising number of American skyjackers were not yet old enough to drink or sometimes even drive. These adolescents were generally inept…
Most of the American skyjackers who fled abroad eventually elected to return to the United States, having tired of life on the…
Like many of his fellow skyjackers, 49-year-old Arthur Gates Barkley was motivated by a complicated grievance against the federal government. In 1963,…
Monorail tracks are prefabricated and can be erected relatively quickly: Simply dig a hole every 120 feet or so, plop down a…
The goal of mass transit is to convince people to abandon their cars, which feature such enticing accessories as CD players and…
Monorails have their own fan club, which claims more than 2,500 members who swap monorail toys and trinkets. Modern light rail can…
Mystical groups such as the Theosophical Society and the Rosicrucians turned tarot into an American fad during the early 1900s. Many American…
Skyjackers had a pretty abysmal success rate - once you commandeered a plane in American airspace, your odds of a happy ending…
Sea-Monkeys are hybrid brine shrimp and the brainchild of the mail-order entrepreneur Harold von Braunhut in 1957. When their crystallized eggs are…

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It is the burning lava of the soul that has a furnace within--a very volcano of grief and sorrow-it is that burning… — Charles Spurgeon
When a man's pride is subdued it's like the sides of Mount Aetna. It was terrible during the eruption, but when that… — Henry Ward Beecher
People never believe in volcanoes until the lava actually overtakes them. — George Santayana
If you ever drop your keys into a river of molten lava, let go, because, they're gone, man. They're gone. — Jack Handey
Moscow, breathing fire like a human volcano with its smouldering lava of passion, ambition and politics, its hurly-burly of meetings and entertainment....… — Svetlana Alliluyeva
That's a big lava lamp. Congratulations. — Mitt Romney
My early book learning came to me as naturally as the seasons in … the little town in which I grew up.… — Richard McKenna
One of the most amazing locations I've ever been is the top of the volcano in Tanzania, Africa. It's an actual volcano… — Jan de Bont
We treat racism in this country like it's a style that America went through. Like flared legs and lava lamps. Oh, that… — Chris Rock
Seeing every height crowned with its crater, and the boundaries of most of the lava-streams still distinct, we are led to believe… — Charles Darwin
You better lava me now or lava me not. — Jimmy Buffett
Do not finish your work too much. An impression is not sufficiently durable for its first freshness to survive a belated search… — Paul Gauguin

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