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Transportation Feats of the World: Journeys from the Kansai Airport

Go! Magazine posted on July 3, 2017 We’re checking back in with GO! Magazine’s tour of the Seven Transportation Feats of the World, highlighting transportation that’s really moved us. The next stop on our tour is found back on the island nation of Japan. The Kansai International Airport is one of Japan’s most important international…

Transportation Feats of the World: Journey on the London Underground

Go! Magazine posted on June 30, 2017 Across developing countries in the West, railway travel really picked up speed toward the end of the 19th century. Traditional railway travel was monumental enough—people worried the speed of steam power locomotives would be detrimental to passengers’ health. Now imagine living in that time period and hearing they…

Transportation Feats of the World: Journey to the International Space Station

Go! Magazine posted on June 26, 2017 To get to our next stop along GO! Magazine’s tour of the Seven Great Transportation Feats of the World, you’ll need a rocket, crew of trained astronauts, and space suit. When appreciating different transportation wonders around the world, it’s important to highlight the ones that are out of…

Transportation Feats of the World: Journey across the Akashi Kaikyo

Go! Magazine posted on June 22, 2017 We’re traveling across the globe to highlight the greatest of transportation feats! So, what’s the next stop on GO! Magazine’s tour of the Seven Great Transportation Feats of the World? This time, we’re heading to Japan to visit what is considered this island nation’s finest engineering feat: the…

Transportation Feats of the World: Journey on the Trans-Siberian

Go! Magazine posted on June 13, 2017 The Seven Wonders of the World has historically been a listing of seven sites known to the Ancient Greeks as the most notable locales in their known world. However, since then, many other lists have been developed, including Seven Wonders of the Modern World, Seven Natural Wonders, and…

Final frontiers: The Oregon Trail

Go! Magazine posted on February 24, 2017 Exploring uncharted territories can be a risky business. These predominantly unexplored lands—like outer space and the deep sea—are known as “final frontiers.” But to truly understand these final frontiers and what they mean for us today, we have to understand the frontiers of days past. In present day…

Final frontiers: Under the sea

posted on February 17, 2017 This month we’re talking about final frontiers! Exploring a final frontier means discovering the land of the unknown. The namesake of the “final frontier” (i.e., outer space), was a good place to start the conversation, but we actually know less about a territory that’s a little closer to home; I’m…

Final frontiers: Space odyssey

Go! Magazine posted on February 10, 2017 “The final frontier” is a description of space used in Star Trek, a science fiction TV show. In this article series we’re talking about different “final frontiers,” or, in other words, we’re exploring the largely unknown territories of this world (and beyond). What better place to start than…

Before we were here: The New World

Go! Magazine posted on January 31, 2017 In the Common Era, you could say transportation took a different course. In the last thousand years or so, early European explorers took to the seas. Taking long-distance ocean voyages between continents meant that vessels used for these early explorations needed to be sturdier than ever before. But…

Before we were here: CE transportation

Go! Magazine posted on January 25, 2017 We’re traveling back in time to the beginning of the Common Era (CE)! In this article, we’ll be taking a look at transportation inventions created during the first 1,000 years of the CE. In fact, you’ll soon discover how strikingly similar some of the earliest CE transportation is…

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