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The World's Best Cities

Cite Where People Want to Be Travel+Leisure has compiled its annual list of the world's best cities, as voted by users worldwide as we continue to navigate the pandemic and its impact on travel.…

Extreme Vacations

How to find adventure and excitement on holiday by Elizabeth Olson Related Links America's Best Beaches World's Most Visited Tourist Attractions…

Amy Lowell: Leisure

LeisureLeisure, thou goddess of a bygone age, When hours were long and days sufficed to hold Wide-eyed delights and pleasures uncontrolled By shortening moments, when no gaunt presage Of…

space travel

(Encyclopedia) space travel: see space exploration; space science.

Utopia: Of the Travelling of the Utopians

Of Their Traffic Of Their Slaves, and of Their Marriages Of the Travelling of the Utopians If any man has a mind to visit his friends that live in some other town, or desires to…

Traveller

Traveller was the faithful steed of Confederate general Robert E. Lee during much of the American Civil War. Lee purchased him in 1861 and the grey stallion became a familiar sight to Confederate…

Waterloo, University of

(Encyclopedia) Waterloo, University of, at Waterloo, Ont., Canada; nondenominational; founded 1957. It has faculties of arts, science, engineering, environmental studies, applied health sciences,…

Galsworthy, John

(Encyclopedia) Galsworthy, JohnGalsworthy, Johngôlzˈwûrᵺē, gălzˈ– [key], 1867–1933, English novelist and dramatist. Winner of the 1932 Nobel Prize in Literature, he is best remembered for his series…

motorboating

(Encyclopedia) motorboating, sport of navigating a motor-powered vessel on the water. It is done on either fresh- or saltwater and may be competitive or recreational. The first successful motorboat…

Palmer, Erastus Dow

(Encyclopedia) Palmer, Erastus Dow, 1817–1904, American sculptor, b. Pompey, N.Y., self-taught. A carpenter in his youth, he spent his leisure time cutting cameos. He progressed to carving bas-…