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It’s Time to Celebrate World Elephant Day!
What is World Elephant Day? World Elephant Day, acknowledged worldwide on August 12, is an annual day of recognition concerning the urgent plight facing the world’s elephant populations. The purpose of the day is to educate the general public about the need for elephant conservation. Both African and Asian elephants are included on the list…
Millions of Tickets Still Available for Olympic Events
The 2016 Rio Summer Olympics may already be underway, but it is not too late to watch the Olympics live and in person. Just hours prior to the start of the opening ceremonies, more than a million tickets still remained unsold for many of the major events. Currently, only the most popular Brazilian sports, including…
‘Coiling Dragon Cliff’ Glass Sidewalk Opens in China
Another incredible feat of mountainside construction has been unveiled in China. Located in Hunan Province, home of the famous chili pepper cuisine, the Coiling Dragon Cliff walkway is the fifth amazing walk-through-the-air tourist site in China that is, to put it mildly, very high above the ground. The cliffwalk opened August 2, 2016 to hundreds,…
No U.S. DEA Reclassification of Marijuana Until 2017
DEA Puts Marijuana Reclassification Decision on Hold There had been several months of speculation that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency was ready to reclassify marijuana from a Schedule I to a Schedule II substance. Now that speculation is going to have to linger on until at least 2017. An unnamed senior executive at the DEA…
