Morning Links: Stanley and Livingstone, the Cirque in Space and More
Travel Blog • Eva Holland • 06.04.09 | 8:19 AM ET
- Today marks the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. BlogHer has a thoughtful dispatch on the event from an expat in Beijing.
- Christine Garvin and her readers at Brave New Traveler share their most surreal travel experiences.
- This summer on the History Channel, four explorers will attempt to retrace Henry Morton Stanley’s most famous journey in Expedition Africa: Stanley and Livingstone.
- The Christian Science Monitor takes a look at the “foreign-film fadeout” in U.S. movie theaters.
- German-Lebanese-American writer Lionel Beehner compares the order of Berlin to the anarchy of Beirut, and realizes that he needs a little bit of both.
- Word has it that Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberte is headed into orbit this fall. He would be the first Canadian space tourist.
- Employees at the Art Institute of Chicago are bracing for “an imminent encounter with a large group of identically clad people,” the Onion reports.
- Zion National Park turns 100 years old this summer. World Hum contributor Ben Keene takes a look at the park’s highlights and the planned centennial events.
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Ling 06.04.09 | 10:10 AM ET
I read through those surreal travel expereinces, and it was worth it. I now know what it means to be stoned in Ethiopia. :)
US Travel News 06.05.09 | 3:20 PM ET
The media has changed the way many people view events, such as Tiananmen Square Massacre. By bringing the violence “into the household,” brought reality to distant violence. This caused these events to become “real.” Other events worth noting is the Vietnam War. Many Americans watched the news on their television, which depicted body bags of soldiers in Vietnam.