Longest Flight in U.S.: United LAX to Singapore
Posted on August 4, 2024
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| Martina Birk
October 30, 2017 7:30 PM EDT
United Airlines‘ newest operating route is one for the record books.
The Chicago-based carrier launched the longest nonstop service from the United States Friday when a flight departed from Los Angeles International Airport en route for Singapore’s Changi Airport. The flight covers a distance of roughly 8,700 miles and was expected to take just under 18 hours.
While it’s the United States’ longest flight in terms of miles, United can’t quite boast it has the world’s longest flight by distance.
[Read More]Man Eats Chipotle Every Day for a Year
Posted on August 4, 2024
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| Kelle Repass
Devin Cunningham, 25, has great abs. But his secret might surprise you. He says his steady diet of Chipotle, which he’s been been eating every single day for a year straight, has helped him get in prime shape. In fact, he plans to keep eating Chipotle daily for an unspecified period of time.
“I just really like Chipotle,” he says.
The Washington state resident, who works in communications and marketing, wasn’t always this obsessed with the fast-casual burrito chain, but he had seen a story about a guy who ate Chipotle straight for 186 days — and knew he could do it even longer.
[Read More]Molly Shannon's Memoir 'Hello Molly' Is Incredibly Charming
Posted on August 4, 2024
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| Martina Birk
There is a moment, about halfway through Molly Shannon’s incredibly charming memoir, Hello, Molly!, that stopped me in my tracks. After describing years of striving in show business, then finally making Saturday Night Live, Shannon makes a confession.
She’d spent years waiting tables in Los Angeles at a place called Cravings. She was good at it, and as a bonus, ran live shows with friends for which she had a call list of hundreds of names to pack the house (500 calls usually meant about 200 people showed up).
[Read More]Old Spice Guy - The 20 Best (Topical) Halloween Costumes for 2010
Posted on August 4, 2024
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| Kelle Repass
What you'll need:
A white towel
A bottle of Old Spice body wash (optional)
When Isaiah Mustafa donned nothing but a towel as the spokesman for Old Spice body wash, the Internet went crazy. You'll be sure to have the ladies at your beck and call with this getup. Whether you actually have the six-pack for the part, or just want to show off your beer gut, it's the easiest costume out there just wrap a towel around your waist and go.
[Read More]Review, Parks and Recreation series finale, "One Last Ride"
Posted on August 4, 2024
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| Martina Birk
Spoilers for the series finale of Parks and Recreation follow:
“When we worked here together, we fought, scratched and clawed to make people’s lives a tiny bit better. That’s what public service is about: small, incremental change every day. Teddy Roosevelt once said, ‘Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is a chance to work hard at work worth doing.’ And I would add that what makes work worth doing is getting to do it with people that you love.
[Read More]Sexes: TLC for DWMs and SWFs
Posted on August 4, 2024
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| Patria Henriques
Classified love ads are a booming business At a few dollars or so per line, they are the natural outlet of the discreet, the sincere and the sensitive, all seeking kindred spirits for meaningful relationships. Classified love ads, once relegated primarily to nonmainstream papers like New York City’s Village Voice and the sex magazines, are now blossoming almost everywhere. In the ad columns of at least 100 magazines and newspapers, even in dailies like the Chicago Tribune, armies of hopeful DWMs and SWFS seek mergers as POSSLQs (translation: divorced white males and single white females wish to unite as persons of the opposite sex sharing living quarters).
[Read More]Singles Day vs Black Friday: Whats the Difference?
Posted on August 4, 2024
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| Patria Henriques
Singles Day 2018, the biggest shopping event of the year is today: not Black Friday, but Singles’ Day, which arrives in China on Sunday with door-busting deals for savvy shoppers.
The holiday was inaugurated by Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba in 2009, and has since gone to outpace Black Friday as the single largest sales day in the world. Last year, Singles’ Day hit a record $25.3 billion in sales, double Black Friday and Cyber Monday combined.
[Read More]Solar Eclipse Time Lapse: Watch Footage From Wyoming
Posted on August 4, 2024
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| Martina Birk
Updated: August 25, 2017 1:15 PM [ET] | Originally published: August 25, 2017 11:35 AM EDT;
Crowds of science enthusiasts, both amateur and professional, looked skyward in Casper, Wyo. on Aug. 21 to witness theGreat American Eclipse, a rare celestial event in which a total solar eclipse crossed the U.S. from coast to coast.
Photojournalist and videographer Philip Scott Andrews set up camp in Casper to gather time-lapse footage of the day unfolding.
[Read More]The 19 Best Summer Music Festivals of 2018
Posted on August 4, 2024
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| Martina Birk
If Beyoncé’s memorable Coachella appearance has sparked your interest in attending a music festival as soon as possible, fear not: the summer festival season is finally near.
Over the past decade, music festivals have reached a global fever pitch of popularity and importance for artists and attendees alike: they’re a cash machine for the industry, a social media feeding frenzy and an important zone for artist discovery. Everyone from The Weeknd to your local neighborhood garage band is lining up to get onstage, while millions of fans worldwide buy tickets to see collections of artists play at events like Panorama, Lollapalooza and Bonnaroo.
[Read More]The Fall of Rome and the Lessons for America Today
Posted on August 4, 2024
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| Kelle Repass
The Roman Republic inspired many of the delegates who traveled to Philadelphia to design an effective federal government for the new United States in the summer of 1787. There was good reason for this. Not only did Rome’s Republic endure for nearly 500 years, but it also offered consensus-building tools like the separation of powers, a system of checks and balances, and veto power. The Roman Republic also provided an important caution.
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