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Flight attendants are trained to remain calm and polite while hundreds of strangers slowly forget how to behave inside a metal tube. That does not mean they have not noticed what you just did. And according to the people who work these flights, the same irritating habits appear again and again.

Feeling trapped on vacation because your friends want to party every night? Learn how to step away from an uncomfortable group dynamic without damaging your friendships.

Archaeologists discovered a 2,000-year-old Egyptian pleasure boat beneath Alexandria’s sunken harbor, revealing evidence of ancient luxury travel, shipbuilding, and maritime life along the Mediterranean and Nile during the Roman era.

The hotel looked like an easy bargain compared with the prices downtown. Then every sightseeing day began with a long commute, every evening ended with another complicated trip, and the transportation costs started eating into the savings.

You check into a hotel, a friend stops by for 20 minutes, and suddenly the front desk adds an extra guest fee. It sounds absurd at first, but in some hotels, occupancy rules are written broadly enough that a short visit can trigger a charge or at least a confrontation. The catch is that the answer depends less on one universal rule and more on the hotel, the rate, and local law.