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The 5 Most Dangerous Sports in the World

October 15, 2012

For adrenalin junkies out there, there are quite a few dangerous sports you can tip your hat to. At the relatively sedate end of the scale there are wonderfully heart-pounding sports like parasa... Read More...

The Best Golf Courses in the World

August 17, 2012

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OK, there's a few problems when it comes to naming the best golf courses in the world. One is the problem facing pretty much every human-created thing on the planet, namely its complete subjectivity. Do you l... Read More...

Appreciating Clouds With the Cloud Appreciation Society

August 13, 2012

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Do you like to appreciate clouds? Big clouds, round clouds, clouds that look like Venetian composer Benedetto Marcello? If you do, you'd probably appreciate the Cloud Appreciation Society. If not, you're miss... Read More...

5 Best Holiday Films

August 8, 2012

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It's official: Vertigo is the best movie ever. Or at least, it has been voted the greatest film in Sight and Sound magazine's poll held once every decade. This year's results of the influential publicati... Read More...

Top 6 Classic Albums Named After Real Places

July 31, 2012

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After some intensive listening parties, exhaustive research and endless debate concerning how Jon Bon Jovi gets his hair to look so fabulous, we bring you our comprehensive catalogue of classic albums... Read More...

Guide to the Perfect Hotel Room

July 16, 2012

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It comes to no surprise that the best hotels in the world offer the best hotel rooms. Still, you can always find some little details that make a room unique and highly special, regardless of how much it cos... Read More...

America’s Best Burger – The Top 10

July 4, 2012

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To celebrate the 4th July, we thought we’d bring you something classically United, er, Statesean - a top 10 list to find America's best burger. What could be more American than the quintessential taste of t... Read More...

The Best Theatre Cities – A Top 5

June 30, 2012

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Sometimes there is more to a holiday than sunbathing and sipping a Sex on the Beach. Occasionally one feels the need to take in a little culture of a place; from visiting ancient shrines to dancing with the loc... Read More...

Top Cable Car Rides of the World

June 28, 2012

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As you may have heard, Emirates now flies at massively reduced prices from one side of the River Thames to the other. The new east London cable car ride– named the Emirates Air Line (get it?) after its spon... Read More...

The Top 5 Failed Apocalyptic Predictions

April 20, 2012

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Apocalypse? Not now baby, I’ve got a headache… Who’s got time for the apocalypse anyway? I mean we are busy right? Sure, a fatalistic looking forward to the end of it all holds a certain appeal, but not right n... Read More...

On the Road – And Which Ones to Stay Off

April 18, 2012

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Jack Kerouac’s generation-defining novel On The Road earned him recognition as the father of the Beat movement. The autobiographical story tells stories of a post-war era of jazz, poetry and promiscuity, as a g... Read More...

Beach Books: 10 Classics You’ve Never Opened… But You Should

April 17, 2012

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Time: Holiday. Location: On the beach. Could be in the Caribbean, the Indian Ocean, or anywhere, really, as long as there's soft white sand all around and a warm sea in near proximity. View: See above. Ac... Read More...

Top Five(ish) Frankenstein Fruits

April 15, 2012

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>Tired of eating your greens? And oranges? And reds? Then maybe you need to get into the somewhat vainglorious world of fruit hybridisation. Back in the day, the early "noughties" to be precise, some over-enthu... Read More...

6 Mundane Places That Have Become Pop Cultural Landmarks

April 13, 2012

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Back in the days before technology made celebrities out of sheep dogs you had to have been something pretty special to get the honour of being an iconic cultural landmark. Then a funny thing happened, people st... Read More...

8 Terrible Restaurant Ideas That Are Remarkably Successful

April 10, 2012

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#4. Serving food next to decomposing bodies - Ahmadabad, India The Terrible Restaurant Idea The New Lucky Restaurant in Ahmadabad in India is famous for a lot of things. There's the fine food, the excelle... Read More...

8 Terrible Restaurant Ideas That Are Remarkably Successful

April 10, 2012

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It can be hard to find a niche in the over crowded restaurant market. All the good ideas seem to be taken, serve good food to rich people, bad food to poor ones and mediocre food to everybody else, in... Read More...

5 Fictional Islands – Where to Find Them

April 1, 2012

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The geographical definition of an island is a relatively small extension of land surrounded by water. In literature, film and one’s own imagination - whether real or fictional - an island represents so much mor... Read More...

5 of the Best Mother’s Day Spa Breaks

March 15, 2012

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Can’t think of a good idea for a Mother’s Day gift? Why not go all-out this year and book your mum a luxury spa retreat in an exotic location? And the good news is she will want a travel companion, so you can e... Read More...