Author: Ms. R.

This bridge was built during the Tudor period but found fame in August 1648 in the English Civil War. During the war, Oliver Cromwell marched his army of more than 8,000 soldiers along with artillery over the bridge on his way to the battle of Preston. Despite being outnumbered, he defeated the combined army of English Royalists and  Scots “Engagers” who marched south in support of King Charles I. The bridge was a packhorse bridge and has been out……

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William Andrew Nicholson spent nearly a decade constructing this mysterious castle. In 1937, at the age of 61, he began building the Tennessee home by hand with some assistance from his wife Emma Fair. The Nicholsons believed that Armageddon (apocalypse from the Book of Revelations) was coming, and built their home to withstand whatever forces might come. Constriction was completed in 1946, and the building was dubbed the Millennium Manor Castle. Nicholson used his flatbed truck to pick up a gray……

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The Fórnea of Porto de Mós is a natural depression (almost like a sinkhole)  in the shape of an amphitheater that is located in the Aire and Candeeiros Mountain Range Natural Park (Parque Natural das Serras de Aire e Candeeiros). It measures one kilometer in diameter and stands 250 meters high. Locals call it Fórnea because its shape is similar in shape to an oven (forno in Portuguese). This geological phenomenon was caused by the erosion from rain and spring waters in the mountain range’s limestone-rich soil. There are several springs in the valley, which are……

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The Palmyra Atoll is about 1,060 miles south of the Hawaiian archipelago in the equatorial Pacific. Far from any permanent human disturbance, it is a haven for an astonishingly diverse spectrum of species, but for the past couple decades, the reefs have been overrun by creatures we know very little about: corallimorphs. Corallimorphs are cnidarians, like hard corals, sea anemones, and jellyfish. They’re closely related to corals, except without the hard parts, and in Palmyra they’ve been outcompeting and……

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This museum is the perfect place to spend an afternoon marveling at Greek and Roman statues. This unassuming museum tucked away on the Emory University campus contains an impressive collection of art. Inside is an extensive collection of ancient Latin American art, as well as artifacts found locally in Georgia. Other standouts in the collection include a soldier’s armor from ancient Greece and a section from the Egyptian Book of the Dead….

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James Clinton Dent was born into slavery in 1855 in Charles County, Maryland. It is believed that he gained his freedom after the United States’ abolition of slavery in 1864.  In the 1870s, Dent moved to Washington, D.C., where he took up residence in a part of the city known as “the island” that was separated from the rest of D.C. by the Washington and James Creek canals. Dent married his wife Mary and worked as a laborer for……

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Like most places in Spain, the Canary Islands are filled with Christian churches both big and small that dot the landscape. These churches focus on Marian devotion and around terracotta statues of Maria. The oldest of these statues can be found on La Palma and dates back to the late 14th or early 15th-century, predating the end of the conquest of the Canaries. In fact, the effigy has been worshiped by the native Benahoritas in a cave not far from……

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