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The Caucasus: Where Europe Meets Asia

Between the Black and Caspian Seas rises one of the world’s most dramatic mountain ranges — the Caucasus. This video explores ...

At 82, Olathe dad may be the oldest person to reach Mt. Everest base camp

Dave McClung, 82, hiked eight days and 17,598 feet to reach South Base Camp at Mount Everest. He may be the oldest to ever do it.
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'It's really an extraordinary story,' historian Steven Tuck says of the Romans he tracked who survived the AD 79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius

"I have found two or three rich guys, but I found a couple hundred middle class and even some desperately poor people who ...