http://www.mail.com/subjects/7602-leisure-travel.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.28/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/subjects/7602-leisure-travel.html http://www.mail.com/news/us/2109944-museum-starts-night-tours-signs-vegas.html LAS VEGAS (AP) — The junked signs that attracted throngs to old Las Vegas have for years gathered dust in a neon boneyard just a few miles from the sleek mega-casinos on the Strip. This Memorial Day weekend, the hulking metal come-ons are once again glinting and shimmering at night. The Neon Museum, where Sin City's most iconic signs go to retire, has beg... Sat, 25 May 2013 18:11:56 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/2109944-museum-starts-night-tours-signs-vegas.html 2013-05-25T18:11:56Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/2104686-nixon-library-hosts-reunion-vietnam-pows.html YORBA LINDA, Calif. (AP) — U.S. Navy Lt. Commander Doug Burns was on a night reconnaissance mission searching for enemy trucks when he was shot down by anti-aircraft fire and taken prisoner during the Vietnam War. Burns broke three vertebrae when he ejected into a flooded rice paddy and spent the first weeks of his captivity strapped to a concrete pallet ... Thu, 23 May 2013 23:55:20 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/2104686-nixon-library-hosts-reunion-vietnam-pows.html 2013-05-23T23:55:20Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/2105396-rolling-stones-exhibit-opening-cleveland.html CLEVELAND (AP) — Over the years, curators at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum have occasionally had trouble coaxing reluctant stars to help put together major exhibitions. Not so with members of The Rolling Stones, who made time in their packed anniversary schedule to help. "Rolling Stones: 50 Years of Satisfaction," opening Friday and running th... Thu, 23 May 2013 15:16:32 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/2105396-rolling-stones-exhibit-opening-cleveland.html 2013-05-23T15:16:32Z http://www.mail.com/sports/other/2104176-family-ties-jarrett-petty-enter-nascar-hall.html CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — NASCAR honored a pair of its most famous and successful families with inductions into the Hall of Fame on Wednesday. Past champion Dale Jarrett joined father Ned in the hall and master mechanic Maurice "Chief" Petty became the fourth member of one of NASCAR's most royal families to be selected for enshrinement. Maurice joins older ... Thu, 23 May 2013 01:57:31 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/other/2104176-family-ties-jarrett-petty-enter-nascar-hall.html 2013-05-23T01:57:31Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/2100836-muppets-creator-hensons-items-head-to-nyc-museum.html NEW YORK (AP) — The Muppets may have taken Manhattan, but they're getting a spiffy new home in Queens. Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Bert and Ernie of "Sesame Street" fame, the stars of "Fraggle Rock" and other puppets, costumes and items from throughout Muppets creator Jim Henson's career have been donated to the Museum of the Moving Image, which is build... Tue, 21 May 2013 21:07:10 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/2100836-muppets-creator-hensons-items-head-to-nyc-museum.html 2013-05-21T21:07:10Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2100054-jersey-shore-readies-1st-post-sandy-summer.html SEASIDE HEIGHTS, N.J. (AP) — The boardwalks are back, and so are most of the beaches, even if some are a little thinner this year. The smell of funnel cakes, french fries and pizza will mingle with the salt air, and the screech of seagulls will be heard, but so will the thwack of hammers repairing what can be fixed and the roar of bulldozers and backhoes ... Tue, 21 May 2013 15:11:32 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2100054-jersey-shore-readies-1st-post-sandy-summer.html 2013-05-21T15:11:32Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/2099360-report-nps-hantavirus-response-policy.html YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) — Federal investigators probing the hantavirus outbreak blamed for three deaths at Yosemite National Park recommended on Monday that design changes to tent cabins and other privately run lodging first be reviewed by National Park Service officials. The report released by the Interior Department's Office of Inspector Gen... Tue, 21 May 2013 04:11:36 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/2099360-report-nps-hantavirus-response-policy.html 2013-05-21T04:11:36Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/2089700-sc-slave-cabin-dismantled-smithsonian-display.html EDISTO ISLAND, S.C. (AP) — As a cool sea breeze wafted across a 17th century South Carolina plantation that once grew prized sea island cotton, workers this week carefully disassembled, measured and numbered wooden planks from a dilapidated antebellum slave cabin. Once one of about two dozen on slave row at Point of Pines Plantation, the cabin will be shi... Thu, 16 May 2013 09:23:11 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/2089700-sc-slave-cabin-dismantled-smithsonian-display.html 2013-05-16T09:23:11Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/celebrity/2083566-prince-harry-tours-storm-damaged-nj-shore.html SEASIDE HEIGHTS, N.J. (AP) — Britain's Prince Harry toured two New Jersey shore communities devastated by Superstorm Sandy, shaking hands with emergency personnel and construction workers before spending Tuesday afternoon in New York City at events promoting tourism, entrepreneurism and philanthropy. He even got a chance to play a little baseball. In Seas... Tue, 14 May 2013 21:21:17 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/celebrity/2083566-prince-harry-tours-storm-damaged-nj-shore.html 2013-05-14T21:21:17Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/2081076-nys-largest-cemetery-celebrates-175th-anniversary.html NEW YORK (AP) — Decades before New York's Central Park was created, Green-Wood Cemetery's ponds, hills and winding paths provided not only a pastoral final resting place for the nation's elite but also a recreational spot for picnics and horse-drawn buggies. The still-active cemetery in Brooklyn was the largest cemetery in the world at the end of the 19th... Mon, 13 May 2013 14:30:59 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/2081076-nys-largest-cemetery-celebrates-175th-anniversary.html 2013-05-13T14:30:59Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/2076728-rare-coins-worth-millions-displayed-orleans.html NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Coin enthusiasts are getting a glimpse of more than $100 million worth of rare money, including some of the crown jewels of money collecting at the National Money Show in New Orleans. Among the attractions are two exceedingly rare 1913 Liberty Head nickels valued at more than $5 million. One was hidden in a Virginia closet for four deca... Fri, 10 May 2013 14:53:42 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/2076728-rare-coins-worth-millions-displayed-orleans.html 2013-05-10T14:53:42Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/2075938-ap-photos-eerie-ghost-town-up-air.html EPECUEN, Argentina (AP) — A strange ghost town that spent a quarter century under water is coming up for air again in the Argentine farmlands southwest of Buenos Aires. Epecuen was once a bustling little lakeside resort, where 1,500 people served 20,000 tourists a season. During Argentina's golden age, the same trains that carried grain to the outside wor... Fri, 10 May 2013 12:02:11 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/2075938-ap-photos-eerie-ghost-town-up-air.html 2013-05-10T12:02:11Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2072128-lady-honors-outstanding-libraries-museums.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Michelle Obama says the nation's libraries and museums are creating better, more informed citizens and doing it with fewer resources. The first lady commented Wednesday at the White House as she helped award public service medals to 10 institutions. Recipients of the 2013 National Medal for Museum and Library Service are the: — Boston Ch... Wed, 08 May 2013 19:12:05 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2072128-lady-honors-outstanding-libraries-museums.html 2013-05-08T19:12:05Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/2069512-elon-musks-spacex-signs-lease-nm-spaceport.html ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Another space industry heavyweight has signed on to use New Mexico's Spaceport America — Elon Musk's Space Exploration Technologies Corp., or SpaceX, Gov. Susana Martinez announced Tuesday. It agreed to a three-year lease to do testing of its "Grasshopper" reusable rocket in southern New Mexico. SpaceX is one of the leading develo... Tue, 07 May 2013 20:11:37 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/2069512-elon-musks-spacex-signs-lease-nm-spaceport.html 2013-05-07T20:11:37Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2067980-bulgarian-honor-bid-dc-stirs-holocaust-debate.html WASHINGTON (AP) — A request by the Bulgarian Embassy to name a Washington intersection after a favorite native son — a man credited with helping save the country's Jewish population from deportation — has gotten tangled up in a broader debate about whether the nation is accurately accounting for the actions of its leaders during the Holocaust. The debate ... Tue, 07 May 2013 18:12:20 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2067980-bulgarian-honor-bid-dc-stirs-holocaust-debate.html 2013-05-07T18:12:20Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/2066106-mamma-mia-abba-museum-opens-stockholm.html STOCKHOLM (AP) — You can thank ABBA for the music. And so much more. A museum devoted to the pop superstars opening in Stockholm on Tuesday will celebrate the band's long list of hits. But it will also show off paraphernalia, including the helicopter featured on the cover of its "Arrival" album, a star-shaped guitar and dozens of glitzy costumes the Swedi... Mon, 06 May 2013 19:08:29 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/2066106-mamma-mia-abba-museum-opens-stockholm.html 2013-05-06T19:08:29Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/celebrity/2066762-okla-honors-actress-mary-kay-place-donation.html OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Legislature has recognized award-winning actress and Tulsa native Mary Kay Place for her donation to a planned popular culture museum in Tulsa. The star of "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman" and "The Big Chill" was honored Monday with special receptions in the House and Senate lounges. She donated costumes and other items from ... Mon, 06 May 2013 19:02:50 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/celebrity/2066762-okla-honors-actress-mary-kay-place-donation.html 2013-05-06T19:02:50Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2064398-scenic-struggling-s-illinois-braces-oil-rush.html VIENNA, Ill. (AP) — This is the Illinois that many people never see — the sparsely populated southern tip where flat farmland gives way to rolling hills, rocky outcrops, thick forests and cypress swamps. Blacktopped county roads wend through no-stoplight towns. Locals speak in soft drawls and talk of generations who've lived on the same land or in the sam... Mon, 06 May 2013 03:45:01 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2064398-scenic-struggling-s-illinois-braces-oil-rush.html 2013-05-06T03:45:01Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/2063426-911-museum-officials-admission-fee-needed.html NEW YORK (AP) — Faced with hefty operating costs, the foundation building the 9/11 museum at the World Trade Center has decided to charge an admission fee of $20 to $25 when the site opens next year. The exact cost of the mandatory fee has not yet been decided. Entry to the memorial plaza with its twin reflecting pools will still be free. The decision to ... Sat, 04 May 2013 22:42:33 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/2063426-911-museum-officials-admission-fee-needed.html 2013-05-04T22:42:33Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2060354-timber-forest-service-asks-to-return-cash.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Forest Service is in the business of preventing fires, not starting them. Yet the agency set off alarms in Congress and state capitols across the West by citing automatic spending cuts as the basis for demanding that dozens of states return $17.9 million in federal subsidies. And it's all come down to a bureaucratic squabble ove... Fri, 03 May 2013 16:48:34 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2060354-timber-forest-service-asks-to-return-cash.html 2013-05-03T16:48:34Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/2060624-german-wwii-bomber-to-salvaged-uk-coast.html LONDON (AP) — A famous German World War II bomber nicknamed "the flying pencil" has spent decades submerged in the English Channel after being shot down in the Battle of Britain. Now, divers are braving dangerous tides to bring it to the surface. British officials on Friday announced a complex salvage operation just off the Kent coast in southeastern Engl... Fri, 03 May 2013 16:14:31 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/2060624-german-wwii-bomber-to-salvaged-uk-coast.html 2013-05-03T16:14:31Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2055222-correction-online-courses-teacher-training-story.html In a story May 1 about plans by Coursera to offer online courses that provide continuing education for teachers, The Associated Press reported erroneously that the American Museum of Natural History goes not grant degrees. The museum offers a master of arts in teaching program, and a doctoral program in comparative biology. A corrected version of the stor... Thu, 02 May 2013 12:45:46 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2055222-correction-online-courses-teacher-training-story.html 2013-05-02T12:45:46Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/2055402-sd-tribe-faces-ultimatum-sale-massacre-site.html SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A small patch of prairie sits largely unnoticed off a desolate road in southwestern South Dakota, tucked amid gently rolling hills and surrounded by dilapidated structures and hundreds of gravesites — many belonging to Native Americans massacred more than a century earlier. The assessed value of the property: less than $14,000. Th... Wed, 01 May 2013 23:11:13 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/2055402-sd-tribe-faces-ultimatum-sale-massacre-site.html 2013-05-01T23:11:13Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/2055678-van-gogh-museum-reopens-with-display-craft.html AMSTERDAM (AP) — The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam has reopened after a seven-month renovation, kicking off with "Van Gogh At Work," an exhibition that shows the famously tortured artist's working methods right down to his paints, brushes and other tools. Appropriately, the final painting curators hung Wednesday was a self-portrait in which Vincent Van Gog... Wed, 01 May 2013 15:27:51 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/2055678-van-gogh-museum-reopens-with-display-craft.html 2013-05-01T15:27:51Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/2053370-mysterious-hebrew-stone-displayed-jerusalem.html JERUSALEM (AP) — An ancient limestone tablet covered with a mysterious Hebrew text that features the archangel Gabriel is at the center of a new exhibit in Jerusalem, even as scholars continue to argue about what it means. The so-called Gabriel Stone, a meter (three-foot)-tall tablet said to have been found 13 years ago on the banks of the Dead Sea, featu... Tue, 30 Apr 2013 16:11:07 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/2053370-mysterious-hebrew-stone-displayed-jerusalem.html 2013-04-30T16:11:07Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2051098-virgin-galactic-spaceship-1st-powered-flight.html MOJAVE, Calif. (AP) — Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo has made its first powered flight, breaking the sound barrier in a test over the Mojave Desert that moves the company closer to its goal of flying paying passengers on brief hops into space. "It couldn't have gone more smoothly," said Sir Richard Branson, who owns the spaceline with Aabar Investments PJ... Tue, 30 Apr 2013 15:48:10 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2051098-virgin-galactic-spaceship-1st-powered-flight.html 2013-04-30T15:48:10Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/2050972-ny-israel-museums-jointly-buy-hebrew-manuscript.html NEW YORK (AP) — The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Israel Museum in Jerusalem have jointly acquired a 15th-century illuminated Hebrew manuscript, they announced Monday. The Mishneh Torah is a rare manuscript with text by the Middle Ages Jewish philosopher Moses Maimonides. It is a synthesis of Jewish law and the second of a two-volume manu... Mon, 29 Apr 2013 22:44:55 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/2050972-ny-israel-museums-jointly-buy-hebrew-manuscript.html 2013-04-29T22:44:55Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/2050606-holocaust-survivors-veterans-gather-dc-museum.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Elderly Holocaust survivors and the veterans who helped liberate them gathered for what could be their last big reunion Monday at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. Nearly 1,000 survivors and World War II vets joined with former President Bill Clinton and Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Holocaust activist Elie Wiesel to mark the museum's... Mon, 29 Apr 2013 19:50:29 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/2050606-holocaust-survivors-veterans-gather-dc-museum.html 2013-04-29T19:50:29Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2043432-glance-george-w-bush-presidential-center.html DALLAS (AP) — The George W. Bush Presidential Center, which houses Bush's library and museum along with his policy institute, will be dedicated in a ceremony Thursday on the campus of Southern Methodist University. Here are some facts on the center: — The about 226,000-square-foot center is located on 23 acres. — The grounds include a 15-acre urban park t... Thu, 25 Apr 2013 07:11:43 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2043432-glance-george-w-bush-presidential-center.html 2013-04-25T07:11:43Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/2041834-artist-decorates-louvres-iconic-pyramid.html PARIS (AP) — An Italian artist decorated the Louvre museum's glass pyramid Wednesday for the first time in the iconic monument's history, in a protest against capitalism. The artwork, a huge three-looped infinity sign made of mirrors, faces due west onto France's business district, La Defense. Michelangelo Pistoletto, one of the world's leading conceptual... 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