These passages are called portages, a term derived from English and French trappers who, alongside Indigenous nations like the Ojibwe and the Dakota, collected pelts for the lucrative fur trade from the late 17th century to the early 19th.
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John Bowe,
Travel + Leisure,
11 June 2026
The beautiful array of their divergent sizes and pelts coalesced as oils on canvas and rendered their exploits almost dreamlike.
Clean high-traffic areas or rooms where pets and kids tend to cause messes more frequently.
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BestReviews,
Mercury News,
26 June 2026
Elementary school-age kids like Jimmy may enjoy the aquarium at the Seas with Nemo & Friends, games at the exit to Spaceship Earth, character greetings at CommuniCore Hall, different soda flavors from around the world in Club Cool and rides like Remy’s Ratatouille Adventure or Frozen Ever After.
The wire seals certify a vessel had either been decontaminated and inspected for invasive species or was last launched in the Lake Tahoe basin, agency officials said in a news release.
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Darrell Smith,
Sacbee.com,
26 June 2026
Aside from hotel-quality designs, the bedding brand takes pride in their fair-trade practices and non-toxic materials, and has earned Fair Trade Certified and Global Organic Textile Standards (GOTS) seals.
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Blake Bakkila,
Architectural Digest,
23 June 2026
Rila’s biodiversity proves the point: The park is home to populations of brown bears, grey wolves, Eurasian lynxes, and the mountain-dwelling Balkan chamois.
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Lauren Dana Ellman,
Travel + Leisure,
4 June 2026
Takins are from the goat-antelope, or Caprinae, subfamily — which also includes sheep, goats, musk oxen, and chamois.
Larger alligators are known to eat smaller ones, which is a major factor in adult alligator mortality, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC).
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Charlotte Phillipp,
PEOPLE,
9 May 2026
The Steinhart Aquarium at the California Academy of Sciences has had alligators on display for more than 100 years, although Claude is the museum’s first albino alligator, the museum said.
Cook County animal control also reminded pet owners that animals with short coats, or with white or tan fur, are more susceptible to sunburbn, especially on their noses.
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Darius Johnson,
CBS News,
29 June 2026
While expecting her son Patrick Bouvier in 1963, Kennedy wore ladylike looks like double-breasted maternity coats and shift dresses.
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Rosemary Feitelberg,
Footwear News,
29 June 2026
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