Radio Taiso (rajio taiso in Japan) is a short stretching routine that can really get a person going in the morning. I've been doing it every morning for a few months, and really feel good after doing it.

It only takes three minutes, and can be done by pretty much anybody. Unsurprisingly, millions of Japanese do this in the morning, even as a group in school, at the office or the factory.

Surprisingly, it began in the United States in the 1920s, when the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company publicized it. Japan picked it up, added music, and broadcasts it every morning. Of course, it didn't last in America, but in Japan it remains strong.

I don't know what it looked like then, but for a while after the end of World War 2, the occupation government banned it for being "too militaristic", until it was changed. Hard to imagine

Hell's Half Acre, a striking geological formation, stretches across 320 acres (1.3 km2) along US 20/26, roughly 40 miles west of Casper, Wyoming. Dedicated to Natrona County by the federal government, this dramatic landscape features intricate networks of deep ravines, hidden caves, distinctive rock formations, and weathered terrain carved by centuries of erosion. The site's names evolved over time, from "The Devil's Kitchen" to "The Pits of Hades" and even "The Baby Grand Canyon." Its

I awoke drenched in sweat from a terrible terror

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