A man has been arrested for running an airport taxi scam at New York JFK. He would approach passengers, tell them that the Airtran wasn’t running, but that he’d drive them into the City. He also claimed to be a Super Shuttle driver and had Super Shuttle logo items in his vehicle, and a professionally […]
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One way of earning American Advantage miles that is often overlooked these days is through a checking account at BankDirect. Now let me state up front, this is nowhere near as sexy as the latest manufactured spend technique. But it's also a lot easier to understand, so easy in fact that you can probably explain it to your grandmother. It's also a passive technique meaning you can set it up once and more or less forget about it.
If you don't mind getting paid in miles, you can earn a very hefty return on your checking account balance with BankDirect.
Although BankDirect offers a couple of banking products that pay interest in miles, I'm going to focus on the Mileage Checking With Interest accounts.
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News and notes from around the interweb: Crowdfunding an airline ticket so you can monitor your girlfriend. What could possibly go wrong? Skyteam’s alliance-wide online award booking tool should be rolled out globally by the end of the year American official arrested for bringing a firearm through the Islamabad airport. If he hadn’t done so, […]
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A giant roadside beetle and RV park belie the world-class quality of this Colorado Springs bug museum's collection.
Turning off of Colorado Highway 115 at the oversized model of the Giant West Indian Hercules Beetle, and driving back through the recreational vehicle campgrounds, one could be forgiven for expecting a certain amount kitsch at the May Natural History Museum. But beyond the gift shop and the Tiki warrior gods lie case after case exhibiting nearly 8,000 specimens from the extraordinary collection of James May, a British second-generation collector who traveled the world searching for rare, exotic, and beautiful insects.
There are hundreds upon hundreds of species of butterfly, moth, beetle, centipede, spider, scorpion, and more, arranged tastefully, even elegantly, in an immersive serpentine maze of framed white cases. The scale of the collection is impressive on its own, but at each case one is impressed as well by the remarkable quality and condition of its specimens, and above all, its variety. The carefully-written labels indicate that the bugs were gathered from locations as far flung as Brazil, Indonesia, South Africa, and Papua New Guinea, and several varieties were discovered by May for the very first time.
The RV park and museum were opened by in 1947 by James' son John May and is run today by his grandchildren.
