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I Found the Best Place to Listen to the Radio

The site offers four different stations, all playing lost classics, rare recordings and incredible tracks from the sixties and seventies. The Tuning button controls which of the four stations you'll listen to. The volume button controls the volume.

The Rainbow Eucalyptus

It is a huge evergreen and can grow up to seventy five meters tall. It has not been used as a plantation species for that long – it is thought that it was taken from its indigenous area of Mindanao to other areas in the Philippines in the early part of the twentieth century.

David Cox - One of the Greatest English Landscape Painters

Many of his landscapes in oils found him much appreciation, particularly Rhyl Sands which he painted in 1854, at the age of seventy-one. However, the artist didn’t abandon watercolors and continued to work with them throughout his career.

Living Happily into Your 90s is Not as Hard as You Thought

Research has found that people in their nineties are even happier than people in their seventies. But before you start to celebrate, you need to ensure you get there. It’s never too late to make a new start.

Make Green Tomatoes Ripe in Days!

When the weather dips beneath the seventies at night, most tomato plants will not be able to grow new fruits.

Concerns Over Kim Jong-un’s Health Put Spotlight on Sister

Concerns over Kim Jong-un’s possible health issues have raised speculation and predictions over the possible successors to the leading role in the country, which has been ruled by one family for over seventy years and remains extremely secretive of its internal affairs.

The Car, the Star: 12 Famous Cars From Movies and TV

Bandit's Trans Am ( Smokey and the Bandit ) Car Type: '77 Pontiac Trans Am Special Features: T-tops, CB radio This star car made everyone ordering a new Trans Am in the late Seventies specify their cars with the famous "Flaming Chicken" decals on their hoods.

The BEST Pics From the Stunning 2021 Creative Photo Awards

Eternit by Ingun Alette Maehlum Category: 1st Place in Architecture Artist's comment: "In the seventies, it was discovered that the asbestos was highly dangerous when handled. In Norway, it was forbidden in 1978. Still, there are eternit board houses spread around the country."

Fun and Fascinating Facts About the Leaning Tower of Pisa

After years of trying to fix its slant and failing, precise stabilization efforts were taken again from 1990 to 2001 where seventy metric tons of dirt were removed from underneath the taller side of the tower.

10 Iconic Stops On Route 66 You Can Still Visit

Meteor Crater - Near Winslow, Arizona Image Source: Shane Torgerson / Wikimedia Commons Seventy miles from Petrified Forest National Park and 20 miles west of Winslow you will find the world’s best-preserved meteorite impact site.

Famous Beach Paintings That Capture Those Warm Summer Days

One of his most famous works was “Rhyl Sands” which he made in 1854, at the age of seventy-one. It shows a day at the Rhyl beach in Wales.

12 Jaw Dropping Facts About the Most Famous Art in History

The first, seventy-centimeter tall version of the renowned statue was the centerpiece of a large scale 1880 project titled 'The Gates of Hell'. This original piece was inspired by Dante’s Inferno, and The Thinker in the middle of it is supposed to be none other than Dante Alighieri himself.

10 Must-Read and Must-See Books and Films about Aging

“Sometimes I feel like a scout for my generation,” says that man who was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease at the age of 43, “sent out ahead to experience in my fifties when even the healthiest boomers are going to experience in their sixties, seventies, or eighties.”

The Best of South Asian Architecture - 15 Magnificent Gems

Although, admittedly, the last name kind of undersells the structure, as the building actually consists of seventy-seven domes and sixty stone pillars. The Shait Gumbad mosque is one of the oldest and most unique mosques in all of South Asia.

Ever Wonder What People Were Like Thousands of Years Ago?

Neanderthal man from an underwater land Image source: Live Science Facial reconstruction now allows you to see the smiling face of a young Neanderthal man named "Krijn," who died between fifty and seventy thousand years ago.