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What are the Pros and Cons of...

November 6, 2022

Question for Our Revenue Management Expert Panel: What are the advantages and disadvantages to outsourcing revenue management? Is there a difference depending on hotel / property type? Our Revenue Management Expert Panel Diego Fernández Pérez De Ponga – Director of Revenue Management, Palladium Hotel Group Dermot Hrlihy – The post What are the Pros and Cons of Outsourcing Hotel Revenue Management? appeared first on Revfine.com.

In This 'Black Power Kitchen,' Joy and...

November 4, 2022

Ghetto Gastro,* the Bronx-based trio of designer Jon Gray and chefs Lester Walker and Pierre Serrao, formed in 2012 with a mission to tell their New York borough’s story through food. Although the Bronx is remarkable—it is hip-hop’s birthplace, it is incredibly diverse, and it features more greenery than any other borough—Gray says it gets less recognition than it deserves. And, due to lasting segregation, many of its residents are food insecure. For the last decade, the Ghetto Gastro...

Get a Peek Inside the New CIA...

November 4, 2022

For more than 30 years, the CIA Museum has been one of the most mysterious collections of artifacts in the world. Housed in the George Bush Center for Intelligence in Langley, Virginia—one of the most secure buildings in the United States—the museum tells the story of the government’s clandestine undertakings from the Cold War through the CIA’s mission in May 2011 to kill Osama bin Laden to today. It has had an exclusive audience: only CIA officers and approved...

Birthplace of the British Tommy in Odiham,...

November 4, 2022

The village of Odiham in Hampshire is closely associated with Britain’s Royal Air Force, as the base at RAF Odiham is the home of the iconic Chinook helicopter. The nearby town of Aldershot is considered the home of the British Army, for whom the nickname “Tommy” became synonymous over the 19th and 20th centuries. But the eponymous Tommy was born in Odiham. According to records, Thomas Atkins began serving in the British Army on August 31, 1815, as a private...

The Insect Asylum in Chicago, Illinois

November 4, 2022

This small museum boasts an impressive collection of both living and preserved insects, taxidermy, antiques, art, and other oddities. It’s the work of Nina Salem, who has amassed a collection of some 2,500 insects over the course of her life. Salem opened the Insect Asylum in 2022, wanting a space to share her passion for the natural world. “I didn’t have a school to learn all this, and I was told it was weird and it was wrong, and that’s...

Boova Shenkel

November 3, 2022

Imagine a Chinese potsticker dumpling with a white dough wrapper, browned in a frying pan. It’s huge. There’s only one per serving, because each is as big as a plate. And when it’s put in front of you, it’ll have caramelized onions on top like pierogies do. Cut it open and you´ll find the same sort of peppery potato filling you’ll see in knishes. These are boova shenkel, the traditional filled dumplings of the Pennsylvania Dutch. Once a staple...

Grave of Daniel “Mad Dog” Morgan in...

November 3, 2022

Daniel “Mad Dog” Morgan is one of Australia’s most notorious bushrangers, once described as “the most bloodthirsty ruffian that ever took to the bush in Australia.” Born in 1830 to parents Mary Owen and George Fuller, the future outlaw started stealing horses and cattle in his teenage years. As time went on, he became a notorious horse thief. Time in jail hardened Morgan.and eventually he moved onto a career as a bushranger. There is no hint of the image...

Hume Castle in Hume, Scotland

November 3, 2022

Sitting on top of a hill above a quaint village below, Hume Castle looks a bit like a cardboard cut out of a castle from a 1950s B-movie. For centuries, this castle served as a major defensive site in between the often-fluctuating border between England and Scotland. Throughout its history, the castle has been burned and destroyed multiple times in attempts to prevent the fortification from falling into enemy hands. The hill itself stands 750 meters above sea level,...

Descend Into the Sewers With London’s Fatberg-Busters

November 3, 2022

Excerpted from Sewer, by former Atlas Obscura Senior Editor Jessica Leigh Hester, available November 3, 2022, from Bloomsbury. Used with permission. All rights reserved. Most of the people wandering the blocks of London’s Covent Garden neighborhood on a chilly evening in September 2019, nursing frothy beverages in the gold glow beaming from café windows or hurrying past sleepy tobacconists and hat shops, probably had no idea that the pipes far below their feet were gunked up with globs of...

Fortune Island in Nasugbu, Philippines

November 3, 2022

Only a 30-minute boat ride from the coastal town of Nasugbu, an island adorned in classical Grecian aesthetics awaits. As you approach this 27-hectare (67-acre) rustic island, your gaze will gravitate towards the Grecian columns adorning the rocky outcrop that dominates the island. Fortune Island was constructed in 1995 as an exclusive luxury resort owned by former Batangas Governor José Antonio Leviste. He steered the project, deciding to build it in a classical Greek style complete with an Acropolis...

St. Leonard’s Court Air Raid Shelter in...

November 3, 2022

Many new blocks of flats come with communal features to attract buyers, but an air raid shelter able to hold 48 people is rarely one of them. In 1938, the builders of a new residential block of flats in Mortlake, South West London, must have sensed which way world affairs were going, because they decided to build just such a shelter under the lawn of St Leonard’s Court. The architect, F.G. Fox, was prescient: the shelter was soon in...

How 'Fist Rice' Became a Symbol of...

November 3, 2022

On a humid summer morning in the mountain-backed metropolis of Gwangju, a cluster of fifth graders shuffled into an auditorium at 5.18 Freedom Park. Here were the former barracks where the South Korean military dictator Chun Doo-hwan and his forces imprisoned, interrogated, tortured, and in some cases killed thousands of civilians in May of 1980. Today, Koreans refer to these events as “5.18,” marking the first day of the Gwangju Uprising, when city residents demanded democracy in the wake...

Palisades State Park in Garretson, South Dakota

November 3, 2022

Glittering pink quartzite 50 stories high split by a babbling creek is an unexpected sight in the vast plains of South Dakota. Despite being the second smallest state park in the state, Palisades attracts hikers, fishers, paddlers, campers, and rock climbers. It is known as one of the best places to rock climb in the world because it has no anchors or bolting. A geologist’s paradise, Palisades contains catlinite, or pipestone. This mineral is used by local Indigenous groups...

Virtuoso Sculpture in Houston, Texas

November 3, 2022

Right outside the Theater District of downtown Houston, situated in front of the Lyric Centre skyscraper is the disembodied head and hands of a giant mustachioed virtuoso playing the cello created by local artist David Adickes. Made of concrete and steel, the massive Virtuoso stands 36 feet tall and weighs 21 tons, a surreal marvel on its own. Equipped with an integrated soundtrack system, the sculpture plays classical music for passing pedestrians if they listen closely to the sound of the...

Podcast: Kasanka Bat Migration

November 3, 2022

Listen and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. In this episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, we visit Kasanka National Park in Zambia, which hosts one of the largest and most mysterious animal migrations on the planet. 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....

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