green cars, green travel and smart spending
Eco-conscious newlyweds Prince Harry and Meghan Markle drove from the luncheon after their wedding at Windsor Castle to an evening reception in a zero-emissions Jaguar electric vehicle. It is an EV conversion of the classic Jaguar E-Type, which Enzo Ferrari once described as “the most beautiful car in the world”. The new Duke and Duchess
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Royal Weddings: The wedding of American actress Meghan Markle to Britain’s Prince Harry is not the first time an American actress has married into royalty, and there have been other American women who were not actresses who also married a prince, or even a king. Here are the Cinderlla stories: Grace Kelly The American actress
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If there’s a new driver in your household, a college student in your life who needs a reliable and inexpensive set of wheels, you need a fuel-efficient second car, or even if you just cant afford to replace Old Breakdown with a brand new model, these recent model year choices are recommended as smart buys,
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Where to Go Next: Windsor Castle and the historic town around it are a great place to visit, but only before or after the Royal Wedding of Prince Harry and American actress Meghan Markle on the castle grounds. Here’s what you need to know about visiting this historic market town just 25 miles from London, making
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Seats five comfortably, head-turning good looks, and costs $37,490 fully loaded with all kinds of safety features not usually found at this price. Ditto the paddle shifters and leather-wrapped steering wheel. I was even more impressed by the fuel economy. I clocked an impressive 51.6 average MPG, nearly 10 miles more per gallon than the
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Fly over Paris in a high-tech jetpack, past the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame, the Louvre, the Champs Elysees and other famous landmarks and sites. It’s a dream come true, and the latest bit of travel technology to appeal to both tourists and residents of the City of Lights. The jetpack is real, as are the
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With peak spring an summer travel seasons about to heat up, it’s a smart move to bypass long and frustrating airport TSA security and US Custom lines with one of the special VIP passes available to ordinary travelers like you and me. If you travel more than a couple of times a year, the
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Life should be downhill in winter, and there’s plenty of great snow left to ski and ride this season. Simplify your spring skiing or snowboarding vacation with one of these FREE apps that track your runs, speed and vertical, even your kids and friends, and allow you to share the info. Warning – These apps
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Pocahontas is back in the news, and like Senator Elizabeth Warren, who has Native American heritage, the real Pocahontas was a remarkable woman. Here’s her bio via the National Museum of the American Indian, part of the Smithsonian, following the 400th anniversary of the death of Pocahontas in 2017: She was about 22 years old
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As the saying goes, everybody is Irish on St. Patrick’s Day. Just about every city in the United States has a parade honoring the saintly man who drove the snakes from Ireland, either on March 17, or the weekend before or after. In 2018, March 17 falls on a Saturday, so most celebrations are that
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