Where To Go In 2019 (and where to avoid)
8 Jan 2019
Tourism
In Reykjavik they’re dealing with a 25 percent year-over-year increase in tourists. Venice plans to charge day-trippers a tax to enter the city in an effort to curb the hordes of tourists. The daily number of visitors to Machu Picchu is double the number that UNESCO recommends. Barcelona residents were all but telling tourists “wish you weren’t here” in demonstrations targeting overtourism.
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Electric Boat will do the initial maintenance work on the future submarine Delaware, the Navy announced Friday.
The work, which was slated to go to Newport News Shipbuilding in Virginia, will sustain about 300 jobs at EB's Groton shipyard, said U.S. Rep. Joe Courtney, D-2nd District.
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Most of the 18 students in the design engineering class are settled into their seats and working with the NX software when one man wanders in late, looking more dressed-up than most, in a button-down shirt, tie and suspenders.
Instructor Cecil Carter stops to ask, "How was the interview,...
A ceremony to commission the Navy's newest attack submarine has been scheduled for next month at the submarine base in Groton.
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