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It's not at all naturally human to see something like the Grand Canyon as beautiful.

~David Roberts

Topics: Beautiful Canyon Grand Grand Canyon Human Like Naturally See Something

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I went to the Grand Canyon with my family when I was about 8 years old, and I had a very blah experience. I think the scale of it is too huge - you don't appreciate it.

~David Roberts

Topics: About Appreciate Blah Canyon Experience Family Grand Grand Canyon Had Huge Old Scale Think Too Very Years You I Think

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When you sling a saddle atop a llama's back, just after he's rolled in the dirt to scratch the unscratchable tickle of having lugged an ungrateful hiker's 90 pounds of impedimenta another eight miles along the trail, you're struck by how matted, coarse, and snarly the wool seems. But that's why it makes for versatile outdoor wear.

~David Roberts

Topics: After Along Another Back Dirt Eight Having He How Just Makes Miles Outdoor Pounds Saddle Scratch Seems Struck Tickle Trail Ungrateful Versatile Wear Why Wool You

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As scientific research demonstrates, llama wool's very coarseness and its range of fibers from fine to thick mean that it can be woven into clothing that's superior to down, fleece, sheep wool, and alpaca wool in criteria ranging from warmth to water resistance to usable life.

~David Roberts

Topics: Clothing Criteria Down Fibers Fine Life Mean Range Research Resistance Scientific Scientific Research Sheep Superior Thick Usable Very Warmth Water Wool Woven

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The United States came within a whisker of invading Utah in 1858 and starting a civil war three years before the Civil War. Because the conflict ended up fizzling out, it's not the most dramatic story about the West.

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Topics: About Because Before Came Civil Civil War Conflict Dramatic Ended Invading Most Out Starting States Story Three United United States Up Utah War West Within Years

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I was doing research on the Mormon handcart tragedy when I came across information about Brigham Young sending out missions to the Indians in 1855.

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Topics: About Across Came Doing Indians Information Missions Mormon Out Research Sending Tragedy Young I Came

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Nobody realizes that Mormons were the first Americans to settle Las Vegas.

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Topics: American First Las Vegas Nobody Settle Vegas Were

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I knew that alpaca wool, with its cashmere-soft weave, had been transformed into cuddly knick-knacks ranging from pillows to teddy bears. But through selective breeding over the past 6,000 years, alpacas have so diverged from their llama cousins as to become quite different animals.

~David Roberts

Topics: Animals Bears Become Been Breeding Cousins Cuddly Different Had Knew Over Past Pillows Quite Selective Teddy Through Transformed Weave Wool Years

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During the Spanish conquest of Mesoamerica in the 16th century, the Catholic Church's Friar Diego de Landa supervised the burning of hundreds of Maya codices - fig-bark books rich in mythological and astronomical information. Only four Maya codices are known to have survived.

~David Roberts

Topics: Books Burning Catholic Century Church Conquest Diego Four Hundreds Information Known Only Rich Spanish Survived

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Though Tikal may have been settled by at least 600 B.C., most of the city's edifices were built during what is called the Classic period of Maya history, from A.D. 250 to 900.

~David Roberts

Topics: Been Built City Classic History Least May Most Period Settled Though Were

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