Author: Ms. R.

In Adelaide’s Rymill Park/Murlawirrapurka stands a life-size cast bronze statue of Alice, the timeless literary heroine of Lewis Carroll’s fantasy novels. Upon a closer look, visitors may find many characters from the story carved into its base of Waikerie stone, including the Cheshire Cat, the Dodo, the Duchess, and the Sheep, right out of the John Tenniel illustrations. The sculpture was created in 1962 by local artist John Dowie AM, commissioned by the city that was redeveloping the area with……

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This beautiful Byzantine chapel from the 14th-century is located on the tiny island Mali Grad in the southern end of Lake Prespa. The only way to get to the church is by boat, which is a beautiful 10-minute trip on which you can see flocks of birds, pelicans, and the view of three countries without turning your head. On the island, there’s a small pathway leading through some fig trees up into a cave sheltering the tiny church and……

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Listen and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. As part of Women’s History Month, The Atlas Obscura Podcast is bringing you classic episodes from the archive. In this one, hear the story of national park in Southwest Uganda that is home to nearly half the world’s population of endangered mountain gorillas. They and the local community rely on each other to survive. Learn how to help. The sounds of the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest and……

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Wandering through the small, labyrinthian Kannawa neighborhood in Beppu City is nothing short of dreamlike. Steam spews in dramatic, billowing clouds from hot-spring vents into the sky. Wisps of steam hiss and curl around you, rising from drain pipes and cracks in the road as though the streets are a giant sauna. Beppu is home to the highest concentration of hot springs in Japan: More than 100,000 liters of water gush from its 2,300-odd hot spring sources each minute…….

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At 3:12 p.m. on the afternoon of Wednesday, June 28, 1939, Clara Adams took off from an airport on Long Island on the first leg of her planned flight around the world. She would not be following the ill-fated itinerary of her friend Amelia Earhart, who had, two years earlier, attempted to become the first woman pilot to circumnavigate the globe by air. Earhart had traced a course east from Oakland, California, along the equator until she disappeared somewhere……

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The Bullock Octagonal School was constructed in 1838 on land purchased from Robert Bullock. The eight-sided plan where the design placed the teacher at the center of the room, allowing oversight of the full class. The school was sold in 1875 and a new schoolhouse was built on neighboring property. In 1891, Linda A. Archie, a Black preacher, bought the property and set about building a church on the site. “Mother” Archie’s African Union Methodist Protestant congregation met in……

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