The Ultimate Travel guides and Backpacking itinerary for Laos, A mountainous and landlocked country considered once forgotten now, the forefront of adventure waiting to be discovered.
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The Ultimate Travel guides and Backpacking itinerary for Laos, A mountainous and landlocked country considered once forgotten now, the forefront of adventure waiting to be discovered.
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The company was the brainchild of Mel Ziegler, a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle, and his wife Patricia Gwilliam Ziegler who worked as a courtroom artist for the same paper. Inspired by a surplus Bush jacket Mel brought back from a work trip to Australia, the couple eventually left their jobs and began buying bulk surplus vintage clothing–often altering it with new buttons or elbow patches and the like–and selling them at the Marin County Flea Market. When a large purchase of Spanish military shirts turned out to have unnaturally short arms they turned disaster into fortune by concocting the fictitious story of Generalissimo Franco’s “Short Armed Paratrooper Shirts”. A catalogue soon followed with similarly creative copy written by Mel and illustrations of the clothing by Patricia. Opening in 1978, a shop in their hometown of Mill Valley, California prospered thanks to their hard work and creative energy; but there were limits to how far they could grow: In 1983 they sold BR to Donald Fisher of the Gap who wisely insisted they remain as the heads of the company with a “hands off” agreement that promised total creative freedom. The infusion of money and manufacturing power of the Gap led to explosive growth: Lavishly decorated safari stores opened across the country, a team of writers and artists were hired to produce full color illustrated catalogues, and a flood of original clothing was designed and produced in factories across the world.
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Located in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, over 6,000 miles from the continental United States, is a massive and dangerous vault with some of the most contaminated radioactive material on Earth. “The Tomb” on Runit Island as it is often called, contains the debris of 43 nuclear bomb tests conducted by the U.S. on the Enewetak Atoll of the Marshall Islands, as well as 130 tons of radioactive soil shipped from the Nevada Test Site. Already, cracks can be seen on top of the dome, and chunks of broken concrete rest in black water accumulating at its base. As sea levels rise, the entire Tomb now threatens to crumble into the ocean. 75 years after nuclear testing in the Pacific began, the fallout continues to wreak havoc https://theconversation.com/75-years-after-nuclear-testing-in-the-pacific-began-the-fallout-continues-to-wreak-havoc-158208 Putting the ‘Nuclear Coffin’ in Perspective https://www.newswise.com/articles/putting-the-nuclear-coffin-in-perspective
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