Author: Ms. R.

If you drive along the M62 motorway, on the border between Lancashire and Yorkshire, between junctions 22 and 23, you’ll be greeted with an unusual sight: a farm in the middle of the motorway, sandwiched by multi-lane roads on both sides. When the M62 was built on the moors above Huddersfield in the late 1960s, the engineers forked the road to avoid the centuries-old farmhouse, known as Stott Hall Farm. With millions of motorists driving by, it quickly became a local……

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The bridges of Prospect Park run the gamut from rustic to elaborate, but one phrase not usually used to describe them is technologically groundbreaking. However, the Cleft Ridge Span is just that. The bridge’s elaborate tile work isn’t composed of terra cotta or carved stone but cast concrete; a new advent at the time of the span’s construction. The idea to use cast concrete was an experiment of sorts. Originally, the plan was to use brick or granite, but park……

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James McIntyre first heard about the singing dogs of New Guinea in 1996. More than two decades passed before he finally saw one in person. There were near misses before: anecdotal sightings, scatological evidence, camera trap snapshots, and the occasional eerie, prolonged vocalizations that give the animals their name all hinted at their existence. But the breakthrough moment finally came in 2018, when McIntyre’s troupe of field biologists came across the canids at 14,000 feet, sniffing around a high-altitude……

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Between 1499 and 1501 Cesare Borgia, the illegitimate son of Pope Alexander IV, defeated Caterina Sforza, Lady of Imola and Countess of Forli, to conquer Romagna. After his victory, he appointed Leonardo da Vinci to the position of General Architect and Engineer. In 1502, he ordered him to study the fortification of the region. One of his first tasks was to draw a map of the city of Imola. This moment would change cartography forever. Previously, maps representing the……

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Every city is filled with statues and plaques that commemorate important locations, events, and history. These memorials are placed by local governments in public places or by landowners on private property. During the 1980s, a major debate ensued over the location of such a monument in Lund. The discussion of what to place on Kraft torg was a long one. Some suggested an equestrian statue of Cnut the Great, but others were opposed. The discussions dragged on for so……

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If you’ve ever wondered what it would feel like to traverse the dreamscape setting featured in the 2009 film Avatar, filled with illuminated trees, plants, and magical creatures, then Penang’s Avatar Secret Garden is the place for you. During the day, this section of rainforest along Tanjung Tokong’s quiet side streets, meters away from the rocky coastline, appears ordinary. By night, this section of rainforest transforms int0 a sea of fiber optics, neon, and fairy lights glowing in various……

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As a thunderstorm boils up into the mountains of central New Mexico, the researchers at Langmuir Laboratory are checking their rockets, climbing into a steel bunker below the launch pad, and waiting for the right moment to fire into the clouds, hoping that lightning will strike back. From the glass cupola of a control tower about a mile away, Langmuir staff scan the nearby trails for hikers, and signal a five-minute window to the bunker crew. “Everything has to……

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