Preikestolen Cliff in Norway
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The number of names a landmark has often signals its importance to the local community. Preikestolen plateau in southwestern Norway has at least five different names; it’s also known as Prekestolen, in English Preacher’s Pulpit or Pulpit Rock, and traditionally as Hyvlatonnå meaning the carpenter-plane’s blade.
Preikestolen stands at a massive 604 meters (1,982 feet) and is nearly flat at its top. It was formed during the Ice age, when the edges of a glacier froze into the sides of the mountain and later broke off abrupt portions of rock forming the angular plateau. Hundreds of thousands of people make the 3.8 km hike each year to get a stunning and terrifying view of the Lysefjorden below.
I want to go to there.
As part of our big redesign and relaunch, we’ve released our new beta usatoday.com this morning. And, it might go without saying, but we’ll say it anyway: We’d love your thoughts.
Happy Birthday, USA Today. The newspaper critics once described as “television you can wrap fish in” is turning 30-years-old. Read “A Newspaper That Influenced Us All” in Garcia Media, a fascinating look back at what this project meant to the industry and its design community.
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30 years ago today, on Sept. 15, 1982, the first USA TODAY hit the streets. It was a groundbreaking front page and newspaper, and this weekend we’ve launched a redesign across all of our products: print, web, mobile and tablets.
