Walk the Freedom Trail, do Sherman's march to the sea, reenact the life of Johnny Appleseed, recreate the discoveries of Lewis and Clark, but without all the venereal disease.

NPR: Eight Steps to Reducing Pain at the Pump

As Sherman said, War is Hell and that man knew his atrocities (he ravaged 18, 000 square miles on his March to the Sea, part of the very good cause of stopping the trade in humans).

FORBES: Wikileaks is an Ad for America

Jean Wilcox Hibben set out to explore a story she heard as a child about a great-grandfather, a scholar and musician who was heralded for serving as Union General William Sherman's scribe during his historic "march to the sea" and capture of Savannah, Ga.

WSJ: When a Genealogy Hobby Digs Up Unwanted Secrets

The expedition - from the Russian base of Novolazareskaya to the Ross Sea - is due to begin on 21 March and is expected to take six months.

BBC: Ranulph Fiennes pulls out of Antarctic challenge

Hence today, we have business enterprises and governments that will march themselves over a cliff (like lemmings to the sea), rather than consider all aspects of their endeavours and seek the best charted waters for themselves and their posterity.

FORBES: Six Signs You May Be In A Dead-End Job

Basra and Musa Qala not to mention the capture of British sailors and marines at sea by the Iranians in March 2007 have fed American worries about British forces.

ECONOMIST: Britain's armed forces

In March, Taiwan, one of six claimants to this disputed smattering of sandbars and reefs in the South China Sea, built a bird-watching hide on a pinprick previously frequented more by soldiers than ornithologists.

ECONOMIST: And valuable, for six suitors