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After a Decades-Long Ban, San Jose's Lowriders...

November 18, 2022

Hundreds of people gathered along Santa Clara Street near San Jose City Hall in June with their custom lowriders–Chevy Impalas, Bel Airs, and Pontiacs, just to name a few. The area was an explosion of color. Car clubs and solo drivers showed off their rides and took group photos, as families walked along admiring the bright green, blue, orange, and yellow vehicles. Food trucks lined the streets and Cisco Kid, a War tribute band, provided the music: “All my...

Was This King Charles I’s Death Vest?

November 17, 2022

It was cold in London on the morning of January 30, 1649—the day King Charles I was scheduled to be beheaded on a scaffold in front of the Palace of Whitehall, following a conviction for high treason during the English Civil War. Dressing before before sunrise, the king reportedly donned an elaborately patterned “sky-coloured satten wastecoat” beneath his black garb. He didn’t want to shiver in the winter air, it’s been said. “He didn’t want people to think that...

The Untold Story of Henrietta Maria, England’s...

November 17, 2022

In Atlas Obscura’s Q&A series She Was There, we talk to female scholars who are writing long-forgotten women back into history. Around midday on July 4, 1643, in the countryside just north of Birmingham, Queen Henrietta Maria was in her battle tent. Outside, shells exploded. Bullets zoomed past. Anxiously, the Queen of England waited. Taking Burton-Upon-Trent, a strategic town with a river crossing connecting northern and southern England, was her army’s first real challenge. Defeat was not an option....

Fasnachts

November 16, 2022

Residents of Berks County, Lancaster County, and Lebanon County, among other Pennsylvania sub-regions, come out in droves each spring for fasnachts. In Pennsylvania Dutch Country—the geographic area in the southeastern part of the state noted for its distinct German influence—a fasnacht is a traditional treat available on Shrove Tuesday, the day before Ash Wednesday when many Christians begin to fast for Lent. The word “fasnacht” has German roots and assumes a variety of spellings depending on whom you ask....

The Quest to Make Jellyfish Delicious

November 16, 2022

This article is republished from Hakai Magazine, an online publication about science and society in coastal ecosystems. Read more stories like this at hakaimagazine.com. On a snowy January morning in 2022, I walk into Duo, an exclusive little restaurant in the heart of the southern Italian town of Lecce, carrying a polystyrene box filled with two frozen plate-sized jellyfish. Antonella Leone, a senior researcher at the Italian National Research Council’s Institute of Sciences of Food Production, is with me...

‘Move One Place On’ in Bellaire, Texas

November 15, 2022

“I want a clean cup,” interrupted the Hatter: “let’s all move one place on.” While the Houston suburb of Bellaire may seem a world apart from Lewis Carroll’s whimsical fantasyland, it is home to what could possibly be the most elaborately detailed sculpture inspired by Alice in existence, one that even rivals the famous statue in New York’s Central Park. Titled Move One Place On, after an obscure line uttered by the Hatter in the seventh chapter of Alice’s Adventures in...

Rohwer Heritage Site in Tillar, Arkansas

November 15, 2022

Visiting what remains of the Japanese prison camp Rohwer is a sobering and eye-opening experience. A few months after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which gave the U.S. the power to incarcerate Japanese Americans. In the months that followed, approximately 122,000 men, women, and children were forcibly moved to “assembly centers,” becoming prisoners of the U.S. government and having their possessions and wealth taken away. Two of those camps...

These Tiny Jewels Come From One of...

November 15, 2022

Just shy of the Arctic Circle, where Alaska’s Seward Peninsula stretches westward toward Russia, there is a most improbable sliver of land. Point Spencer sits at the northern tip of a miles-long, narrow spit of sand, gravel, and permafrost that’s less than 100 feet wide in places. To the east is Port Clarence Bay, where depths can exceed 40 feet—an anomaly amid the region’s shallow coastal waters. To the west is the wild and unforgiving Bering Sea, home to...

Peter the Anteater Statue in Irvine, California

November 15, 2022

The University of California, Irvine, is home to many things, but one of its most famous attributes is also one of its strangest: It holds the unique distinction of being the only university in the world with an anteater for a mascot. Peter the Anteater became UCI’s mascot in 1965 after of a vote by the student body in which the anteater won 56 percent of the vote, beating out the likes of roadrunners, unicorns, and centaurs. The anteater’s...

Bullet Holes in the National Museum of...

November 15, 2022

The decorative exterior door to the National Museum of Finland represents several traditional Finnish occupations. One of the trades depicted is that of a blacksmith, however, when visitors look closely the panel has an unusual detail⁠—a bullet hole in the head of the carved craftsman. The Finnish Civil War of 1918 left the newly independent country scarred for decades. The bullet hole is a remnant of the war and was fired by the Reds from the old Russian barracks...

Millaa Millaa Waterfall in Millaa Millaa, Australia

November 15, 2022

Millaa Millaa Falls is the name given to this quite remarkable plunge waterfall surrounded by a lush rainforest in the Tablelands Region of Queensland, Australia. The flowing water drops from a height of 60 feet (18.3 meters) down to the pristine pool of water that lies below. This spectacular natural feature lies on the land of the regional Mamu Aboriginal population and was used as a food source for many years before the arrival of European settlers. The name...

Lakeland Antique Mall in Lakeland, Florida

November 15, 2022

Quite possibly, owning a piece of Disney history is every Disney fan’s dream, and there is an ever-growing market for such items as production drawings from animated classics and props used in Disney parks. That said, it’s rather difficult to come by such artifacts outside of high-cost auctions, while fakes are not uncommon online. Located about 35 miles away from Walt Disney World, the Lakeland antique mall is one of the foremost dealers of Disney props in the world,...

Podcast: Trailing of the Sheep

November 15, 2022

Listen and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. In this episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, we learn about the thousands of sheep that take over downtown Ketchum, Idaho, during the annual Trailing of the Sheep Festival. This Small Town, Big Story episode is produced in partnership with GoUSA TV. 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 Do We Roast Politicians With Food-Based...

November 14, 2022

THIS ARTICLE IS ADAPTED FROM THE NOVEMBER 12, 2022, EDITION OF GASTRO OBSCURA’S FAVORITE THINGS NEWSLETTER. YOU CAN SIGN UP HERE. A few weeks ago, I joined thousands of spectators watching a live stream of a contest that pitted the political career of Liz Truss, then the British head of state, against a head of iceberg lettuce. On October 20, the lettuce—browning but still standing—bested Truss, who resigned just seven days after the contest started. A headline in The...

Chalmers Memorial Church in Port Seton, Scotland

November 14, 2022

Churches in Scotland often emulate jewelry boxes. Their plain and often austere exterior do not necessarily reflect the treasures they contain within. A prime example is the parish church that resides in the seaside village of Port Seton. Though there has been a place of worship here since the middle of the 19th century, the current configuration and all its internal splendor didn’t appear until the beginning of the 20th century. The name of the church and its architectural...

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