green cars, green travel and smart spending
Elvis Presley was born in Tupelo, Mississippi on Jan 8, 1935, which celebrates its most famous native year round, not just on his birthday, when there are concerts of Elvis music and screenings of his most popular Hollywood movies. Tupelo is more low-key, and far less glitzy or crowded than Graceland, in Memphis, which he
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It’s one of the most popular and iconic songs of the Christmas season. There’s an interesting story behind the creation of Silent Night, Holy Night, celebrated each Christmas Eve in the tiny chapel in the Austrian Alps where it was first performed exactly 200 years ago, on Christmas Eve 1818. The village is Oberndorf, near
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Bertha Benz was the first documented woman driver and the first woman we would describe today as an automotive marketing pro or influencer. Her pioneering and headline-making 130-mile round-trip drive in 1888 between home and her mother’s house popularized her husband’s motorized contraption. It was a road trip into history. A trained mechanical engineer, Dr.
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Where to go next: For a lifelong New Yorker like me, the wide open spaces and history of the great American West holds special fascination. Especially when it’s connected to the Broadway musicals I love, like Annie Get Your Gun. Both American and Broadway history are alive and well at the historic Sheridan Inn, in
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