This unique natural feature is one of many things that have given the Nature Isle a reputation as an outdoor adventurer’s playground—but getting to it is not for the faint of heart. It is one of the very few waterfalls that descends not into a lake or river, but directly onto a beach/into the sea (depending on the tide level at that time). At low tide, the water drops onto a large stretch of black sand beach, which you will……
In the countryside between the small towns of Stimigliano and Torri in Sabina in northern Lazio, there is an inconspicuous Romanesque church that played a crucial role in the history of the region built over the remains of an old Roman town. The church, officially known as Santa Maria della Lode in Vescovio, dates back to the eighth century. But due to the ravages of the Saracen attacks and later reconstructions, its present style is clearly Romanesque, as demonstrated……
The city of Galle in Sri Lanka is perfect for walking and taking in architecture from the past three centuries. A fort on the Bay of Galle was established by Portuguese colonizers in 1588, then extensively fortified by the Dutch during the 17th century. The fort resembles a small walled town with streets in a rectangular grid pattern and low houses in the Dutch colonial style. Inside the fort area there are a number of historic churches, mosques, commercial and……
In 2018, a century after the end of World War I, a small town near Wakefield honored its dead with a 20-foot sculpture of a horse composed of wood. Around 353 soldiers from Featherstone died during the war. Crosses located around the horse to honor the soldiers were also accompanied by a small tree. The memorial is entitled “War Horse, A Place of Peace To Be Together,” and was made possible with a £50,000 grant. Crafted by artist Cod Steaks,……
The “Monumento Naturale di Corviano” is a lesser-known nature reserve that covers over 70 hectares and is located between the villages of Vitorchiano and Bomarzo, in northern Lazio. The site extends over a high volcanic plateau that is separated from the valley below by high cliffs, which served formidable defensive purposes over the centuries. Most of the archaeological remains that are visible today date back to the Middle Ages, however, several Etruscan altars and tombs are located in the……
BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP) — When the coronavirus pandemic shut down the Levis Jewish Community Center last year, 98-year-old Trudy Berlin sprang into action to keep her weekly women’s group active. For Berlin, who began hosting “The Ladies Room” at the JCC’s Sandler Center in 2000, the show needed to go on. So with a little help from Stephanie Owitz, the Boca Raton, Florida, center’s director of arts, culture and learning, the show went virtual. “When the pandemic hit,…
The fascinating Etruscan civilization and necropolises enchanted English writer and traveler D.H. Lawrence, as described in the book Etruscan Places. Like the Egyptians, the Etruscans attached great importance to the cult of death and the belief that the deceased survived in the afterlife. Magicians and child prophets were adept at reading lighting and observing the viscera of sacrificed animals, especially the livers. Perched on a volcanic cliff, Pitigliano is one of the most special places in the Tuscan Maremma. A……
Although the city has not officially decided to promote or protect this location, thanks to the hard work of locals such as Mike Odell, Adam Marsh, and others, a grant was secured to work with the National Park Service to complete an environmental assessment of this area. In October 2015, the city council awarded a contract to Flagstaff-based American Conservation Experience to design and construct sustainable trails, retaining walls, water bars, and switchback details across the site. Work was……
A startup that has built a neobank specifically to address the needs of freelancers and sole traders has picked up a growth round to continue expanding its business after seeing its usage grow by 1500% in a year. Lili, which provides a way for freelancers to use a single account both to manage their work and personal financial lives, along with tools to help manage the particular financial and accounting demands that come with being a one-person business, has……
MIT researchers have created a new system that automatically cleans “dirty data” — the typos, duplicates, missing values, misspellings, and inconsistencies dreaded by data analysts, data engineers, and data scientists. The system, called PClean, is the latest in a series of domain-specific probabilistic programming languages written by researchers at the Probabilistic Computing Project that aim to simplify and automate the development of AI applications (others include one for 3D perception via inverse graphics and another for modeling time series……
In a uniquely deep and detailed look at how the commonly used anesthetic propofol causes unconsciousness, a collaboration of labs at the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT shows that as the drug takes hold in the brain, a wide swath of regions become coordinated by very slow rhythms that maintain a commensurately languid pace of neural activity. Electrically stimulating a deeper region, the thalamus, restores synchrony of the brain’s normal higher frequency rhythms and activity levels,……
Best viewed from the other side of the River Don, visitors to this region of England are treated to this brilliant and beautiful mural from local street artist an international repute, Phlegm. Known for his monochrome pictures and fantasy figures, the mural has been at this location since 2013. It features a nautical fantasy scene that includes a boat filled with Phlegm’s characteristic figures following a giant squid. The pub that hosts the mural is a great place to……
Listen and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. In this episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, we visit the strangest, most famous resident from this Colorado town—who happens to be a headless fowl. Our podcast is an audio guide to the world’s wondrous, awe-inspiring, strange places. In under 15 minutes, we’ll take you to an incredible site, and along the way you’ll meet some fascinating people and hear their stories. Join us daily, Monday……
At dinnertime in Zaina Moussa’s childhood home, the table would be filled with an array of Moroccan and Syrian dishes, representing her parents’ different backgrounds. A mix of French, Arabic, and English words would fill the air as Moussa’s siblings chattered, waiting for their father to join them. As her diabetic father pricked his finger to check his blood sugar, she and her siblings would shout out numbers to predict the results before the monitor. From a young age,……
CHICAGO (AP) — Jason Robertson scored 4:30 into overtime, and the Dallas Stars rallied to beat the Chicago Blackhawks 5-4 on Monday night in the final game of the season for each team. Miro Heiskanen had a goal and an assist for Dallas (23-19-14), which had dropped six of seven. Joe Pavelski, Jason Dickinson and Joel Kiviranta also scored, and Jake Oettinger made 19 saves. The Stars controlled play for most of the night, finishing with a 50-23 advantage…
