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In Ancient Egypt, Jar Burials May Have...

March 6, 2024

When journeying northeast from Cairo, a traveler will eventually reach the geographical line which sharply divides the Nile Delta and the Sinai. This is where the verdant fields of grain, little irrigation ditches, and thick loamy soil give way to the arid desert of the peninsula. Outcroppings of limestone, tempered with fragments of ancient fossils, and driving sands characterize the region. This border region hosted the impressive fortress of Tell el-Retaba, fortified and expanded more than 3,000 years ago...

Coleman Mine in Jessieville, Arkansas

March 6, 2024

There’s a picture of Ron Coleman and his son Josh in a 2018 Arkansas Democrat-Gazette article. It’s a nice photo of father and son, but the pair aren’t the subject of this picture. The two take a backseat to the eight-foot-long, 2,000-pound crystal they, as part of an excavating team, found in Coleman’s eponymous mine. Though it’s rare to stumble across something as spectacular as this beauty, which was valued at $3.5 million at the time, visitors to the...

Podcast: Mr. Kaor’s Letters

March 6, 2024

Listen and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. In this episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, we visit a quaint Dutch fishing village and attempt to unravel the mystery that unfolded there … one that involved strange and curious letters and a voyage to the other side of the world. 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,...

Why Daylight Saving Time Messes With Your...

March 6, 2024

This story was originally published on The Conversation. It appears here under a Creative Commons license. As people in the U.S. prepare to set their clocks ahead one hour on Sunday, March 10, 2024, I find myself bracing for the annual ritual of media stories about the disruptions to daily routines caused by switching from standard time to daylight saving time. About one-third of Americans say they don’t look forward to these twice-yearly time changes. And nearly two-thirds would...

From Family Game to Cult Film to...

March 5, 2024

The six suspects are, somehow, more iconic than the crime. There’s the femme fatale, the mutton-chopped military officer, the skittish housekeeper, the sinister businessman, the grande dame, and the absent-minded academic. You might know them better as Miss Scarlet, Colonel Mustard, Mrs. White, Mr. Green (or Reverend Green, a hypocritical Anglican priest, in the British version), Mrs. Peacock, and Professor Plum. They’re together one dark night in an estate called Tudor Mansion when its wealthy owner, Mr. Boddy (Dr....

Yesus Kase Berkat in Manado, Indonesia

March 5, 2024

In one of the few Protestant-majority cities in Indonesia, you can find this interesting statue of Jesus looking like he’s about to take off over the sprawling city of Manado. With a 30-meter (98-foot) statue on a 20-meter (66-foot) pedestal, it is one of the largest statues of Jesus Christ in the world. (The Christ of Vũng Tàu in Vietnam clocks in at 32 meters (105 feet).) The statue’s official name in Manado language is Yesus Kase Berkat or Kristus Kase Berkat (which...

S.S. Relief in Ventura, California

March 5, 2024

The S.S. Relief is a floating restroom that was installed in 1991 for $50,000 by Casitas Municipal Water district to provide relief to sailors on the lake. Sailors got tired of having to dock every time in order to relieve themselves. This unconventional toilet was installed so that they could drop anchor and use the facilities at their convenience. Currently, it’s one of more than 260 such lavatories set up in California since the 1970s, more than 100 of...

Newsboy Statue in Great Barrington, Massachusetts

March 5, 2024

The newsboy statue and fountains were a gift to the town of Great Barrington by Col. William L. Brown, a former teacher, politician, summer resident, and past part-owner of the first New York Daily News. Dedicated on October 10, 1895, this statue was the first of its kind and has kept vigil for well over a century. The base of the statue has four water fountains for cats, dogs, horses, and humans. Two of the bronze heads were stolen,...

The Swedish Female Adventurer Who Sailed Solo...

March 5, 2024

It was the spring of 1938, and a woman sailing on the Bay of Bengal was dreaming of snow. Maybe it was the burn blisters on her skin or the escape from the Indian Imperial Police that had made the adventurer Aina Cederblom sentimental. After two and a half years of sailing solo through Asia, she was ready to head home to Sweden—at least that was the 39-year-old’s plan. Fate had other ideas. During the early 20th century, Aina...

Podcast: GALS Gone Wild

March 5, 2024

Listen and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. In this episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, we’re joined by The Sporkful senior producer Andres O’Hara to see what happens when invasive creatures make their way—slow and slimy—to the United States. And then refuse to leave. If you like this episodes and are looking for more surprising and fascinating food stories, check out The Sporkful, which just released a new series called “Deep Dish” that...

Antarctic Explorers Wrote Cute, Funny Stories to...

March 4, 2024

The sun hadn’t been seen above the horizon in months and wouldn’t return for another few weeks. Griffith Taylor, a geologist on Robert Falcon Scott’s Terra Nova expedition, had little to do. He scanned a years-old issue of a magazine from back home in England, his bored eye catching on a ladies’ fashion column detailing the new styles of the day. After a moment, he looked up to see his bunkmate, fellow geologist Frank Debenham, working on his rock...

Flambé Your Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner

March 4, 2024

THIS ARTICLE IS ADAPTED FROM THE MARCH 2, 2024, EDITION OF GASTRO OBSCURA’S FAVORITE THINGS NEWSLETTER. YOU CAN SIGN UP HERE. Here at Gastro Obscura, we really like playing with fire. There was the time that editor Sam O’Brien made feuerzangenbowle, a flaming German rum punch with roots in the rowdy student culture of the 1700s. Then there was the night I risked my fingers and eyebrows with the Victorian party game known as Snapdragon, where players compete to...

Podcast: What Happens to the Food You...

March 4, 2024

Listen and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. In this episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, we go inside one of the busiest airports on Earth with help from a podcast friend, Andres O’Hara of The Sporkful, to discover the fate of all the food confiscated by customs. Spoiler alert: It doesn’t get eaten. Our podcast is an audio guide to the world’s wondrous, awe-inspiring, strange places. In under 15 minutes, we’ll take you...

The Atlas Obscura Crossword: March Themeless

March 4, 2024

Atlas Obscura’s weekly crossword comes to us from Natan Last, a writer who also helps develop policy and digital products for refugees and asylum seekers. His work can be found in The Atlantic, Los Angeles Review of Books, The New Yorker, and other publications, and he’s currently working on a nonfiction book about crosswords. You can solve the puzzle below, or download it in .pdf or .puz. Note that the links in the clues will take you to Atlas...

Is it Realistic to Focus on Profitability...

February 27, 2024

Question for Our Revenue Management Expert Panel: Is it realistic to focus on profitability over revenue? How should revenue management teams manage stakeholder expectations? Where might challenges arise? (Question by Diego Fernandez Perez De Ponga) Our Revenue Management Expert Panel Diego Fernández Pérez De Ponga – Director The post Is it Realistic to Focus on Profitability over Revenue? appeared first on Revfine.com.

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