Author: Ms. R.

This family-owned little shop of horrors specializes in rare plants. It’s both a shop and a nursery that carries carnivorous plants, aroids, succulents, hoya, dischidia, and more. These carnivorous plants aren’t after True Blood—they’re after bugs and other arthropods.  For Carlos Detres—We Bite’s very own Seymour Krelborn—nurturing unusual plants is a labor of love. Before opening the store, Detres’ fascination with carnivorous plants led him to purchase several hundred seeds online. With a lot of research and patience, he was able to……

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The Melbourne Rectangular Stadium, currently known as the AAMI Park is a quite remarkable feat of engineering and architecture. It lies on the eastern side of central Melbourne, situated between the banks of the Yarra River and the Melbourne Cricket Ground. The geodesic dome roof and special design make this stadium unique. The structure allows spectators to enjoy a great view from all seats, with fewer support structures than typical rectangular-shaped stadiums. Thousands of LED lights cover the exterior of……

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Founded in 1904, the Washington Canoe Club began building the boathouse that still serves as their home over 115 years later. Under the guidance of architect Georges P. Hales, members of the club which was initially limited to 100 members, built the boathouse using recovered materials. By 1930, the boathouse was expanded to the east to a total size of approximately 11,000 square feet, and in 1970, a landfill in front of the boathouse was capped with concrete, creating……

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While they are almost extinct now, wooden shoes or clogs were once the main form of footwear in the country. These types of shoes were made by craftsmen, only a few of which still exist today. The International Clog Museum provides a glimpse into the history of the wooden shoe. The museum was based on a collection once owned by the Wietzes brothers, the last clog makers of the town of Eelde. After their passing, a large collection of……

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Twenty-four members of the House of Kettler and six members of the Biron family are buried at this location. Initially, the remains of dukes and their family members were placed in a vault under the chapel, the sarcophagi were later moved to the basement rooms under the new Jelgava Palace. The vault contains 21 metal sarcophagi and nine wooden coffins, all adorned and decorated with fine engravings and ornamental details. The oldest pewter sarcophagus belongs to Sigismund Albert, the……

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On the flanks of Medicine Lake Volcano in remote Northern California is Lava Beds National Monument. In its higher altitudes, the park is covered in large ponderosa pines and firs. As it descends, the landscape gives way to sagebrush and bunch grasses. And beneath that is a sprawling network of some 800 lava tubes, caves carved out by flows of molten rock that date to between 65,000 and just 1,100 years ago. Some are just a few feet across,……

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We’ve all seen this movie: Intrepid human space explorers arrive at a strange new planet and settle into orbit only to discover—cue the creepy, theremin-heavy soundtrack—the local welcoming committee isn’t so welcoming. But there’s nothing sinister about this image of ethereal blue tendrils that seem to reach out to the underbelly of the International Space Station (ISS). French astronaut Thomas Pesquet, on his second European Space Agency mission aboard the ISS, captured a particularly dazzling aurora in mid-August 2021…….

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The museum galleries are haunted by a veritable menagerie of bronze sculptures both small and enormous that portray strange and nightmarish phantasmagoric entities that look like they could belong in the Guillermo Del Toro movie Pan’s Labyrinth. However, these eerie gothic masterpieces are the artistic legacy of Leonora Carrington, one of the most prolific artists in Surrealism whose work is little-known outside of Mexico.  Leonora Carrington was born in 1917 in Lancashire, and was the daughter of a wealthy local……

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