QUICK HITS.Queen's on holiday: Buckingham Palace, official London residence of Queen Elizabeth, will be open to visitors this summer from Aug. 8 to Sept. 30 while the queen is away on vacation. Admission is 8.50 pounds ($12.75) for adults, 6 pounds ($9) for senior citizens and 4.50 pounds ($6.75) for children under 17. Tickets are available each day from a ticket office in Green Park, across from the palace. Stogie sto·gy or sto·gie n. pl. sto·gies 1. A cheap cigar. 2. A roughly made heavy shoe or boot. [After Conestoga, a village of southeast Pennsylvania. stop: There's a new cigar bar at Boulder Station Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, open between 9 a.m. and 1 a.m. Sunday through Thursday, where cigar smokers can get stogies and fine liqueurs Liqueurs are high-alcohol, high-sugar beverages with added flavorings usually derived from herbs, fruits, or nuts. Liqueurs are distinct from flavored liquors, fruit brandy and eau de vie which contain no sugar. Most liqueurs range between 15 and 70 percent alcohol by volume. . Information: (702) 432-7777. Park admission: Crystal Holidays allows visitors to England to secure guaranteed admission tickets to Legoland Windsor, the new amusement park built around a Lego blocks theme. The park is only open May through September; admission is $21 adults and $16.50 kids age 3-15, except on weekends, when admission costs $1.50 more. Pre-booking allows guests to secure tickets three days in advance and to bypass regular ticket lines. Information: (800) 982-2785. Glub, glub: UnderWater World, a marine education center with a 1.2-million-gallon aquarium filled with more than 15,000 fish, is now open in the Mall of America Mall of America (also MOA, MoA, or the Megamall) is a shopping mall located in the Twin Cities suburb of Bloomington, Minnesota. It is just southeast of the junction of Interstate 494 and Minnesota State Highway 77, and is across the interstate from the in Bloomington, Minn. Visitors walk through a 400-foot long tunnel that takes them on a journey through a Minnesota lake, down the Mississippi River, into the Gulf of Mexico Noun 1. Gulf of Mexico - an arm of the Atlantic to the south of the United States and to the east of Mexico Golfo de Mexico Atlantic, Atlantic Ocean - the 2nd largest ocean; separates North and South America on the west from Europe and Africa on the east and finally a Caribbean coral reef. Information: (888) 348-3846. Local customs: United Airlines will open a $51 million federal inspection services facilaity at Los Angeles International Airport “LAX” redirects here. For other uses, see LAX (disambiguation). “KLAX” redirects here. For other uses, see KLAX (disambiguation). Los Angeles International Airport (IATA: LAX, ICAO: KLAX, FAA LID: LAX at about 8.45 a.m. Monday. With nine gates and 90,000 square feet to serve United's International flights, the facility will cut imigration and customs processing time in half at the Tom Bradley International Terminal. Flight No. 816 from Sydney, Australia, will inaugurate in·au·gu·rate tr.v. in·au·gu·rat·ed, in·au·gu·rat·ing, in·au·gu·rates 1. To induct into office by a formal ceremony. 2. the facility. |
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