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Hotel Amenities: Meet and Exceed Your Hotel...
October 12, 2022
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Hotel amenities can make a huge difference to a guest’s experience. There are certain amenities that guests simply expect as a matter of course, such as high-speed broadband, a well-stocked mini-bar, and so on. Today’s discerning guests, however, are unlikely to be impressed with these basic amenities. Read on to find out how you can The post Hotel Amenities: Meet and Exceed Your Hotel Guests’ Expectations appeared first on Revfine.com.

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Italian Hall Memorial in Calumet, Michigan
October 11, 2022
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To say that early 20th-century American labor relations were tumultuous is an understatement. During this era, newly unionized workers united to protest low wages, child labor, and the mechanization of work. A constellation of strikes exploded across the nation from Seattle to New York City and even in small towns like Calumet, Michigan. Calumet, now seven times smaller than its population in 1910, was once the capital of the burgeoning Copper Country, a region in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula that...

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In Malta, ‘Dead Men’s Bones’ Are a...
October 11, 2022
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For more than 50 years, Baron Confectionery in Ħaż-Żabbar, Malta, has been crafting pastries. Often, they turn out flaky ricotta-or-pea-filled pastizzi or figolli, the colorful Easter-time sweets. But by the end of October, their treats take on a more macabre look. Għadam tal-mejtin (dead men’s bones), or alternatively, għadam ta’ Novembru (November bones) are available not just here, but across the country throughout November. They are edible memento mori, part of Malta’s longstanding Month of the Dead celebrations. The...

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Green Point in Anacortes, Washington
October 11, 2022
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The rocky beach at Green Point used to be deep underneath the crust of the Earth and is one of the few places in the world you can stand on what was once the Earth’s mantle. While the Earth’s mantle is only 30 miles (45km) below your feet most everywhere else on Earth, it is over a thousand degrees and you would be smushed beyond any recognition if you tried to go there. However, here, on this beautiful beach...

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Dr. James Naismith Statue in Almonte, Ontario
October 11, 2022
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With the Romanesque Revival architecture of the Old Post Office in Almonte as a backdrop, is a larger-than-life bronze statue of Dr. James Naismith, the inventor of basketball. Naismith was born in 1861 on a farm on the outskirts of a thriving mill town in the Canadian province of Ontario. Naismith began his formal education in a one-room schoolhouse in Bennie’s Corners. He was an average student, being far more interested in exploring the fields, meadows, creeks, and woodlands...

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Podcast: Emily Graslie Curates a World of...
October 11, 2022
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Listen and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. In this episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, we sit down with science communication superhero Emily Graslie, who tells us how a pair of severed wolf heads helped her fall in love with science, about the road trip she took back to the beginning of time, and why she’s now looking for wonder in her own backyard. Learn more about Graslie (and watch her bug videos!)...

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Mapping the Many Monsters of Aboriginal Australian...
October 10, 2022
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This story was originally published on The Conversation and appears here under a Creative Commons license. A rich inventory of monstrous figures exists throughout Aboriginal Australia. The specific form that their wickedness takes depends to a considerable extent on their location. In the Australian Central and Western Deserts there are roaming ogres, bogeymen (and bogeywomen), cannibal babies, giant baby-guzzlers, sorcerers, spinifex, and feather-slippered spirit beings able to dispatch victims with a single fatal garrote. There are lustful old men...

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Podcast: SubTropolis
October 10, 2022
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Listen and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. In this episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, we visit a former limestone mine in Kansas City, Missouri, that has been turned into a 55-million-square-foot industrial park and storage facility. 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...

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Puzzle Monday: Living With the Dead in...
October 10, 2022
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Among our crosswords and other puzzles, we’ll be featuring linguistic challenges from around the world from puzzle aficionado and writer Alex Bellos. A PDF of the puzzle, as well as the solution, can be downloaded below. All cultures have rituals and celebrations to honor the dead—Halloween among them, even if its modern form is mostly about costumes and candy. In Madagascar, the famadihana is a ceremony during which families speak with deceased ancestors. But it involves a very different...

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Top Tips for Success in Content and...
October 10, 2022
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Question for Our Hotel Marketing Expert Panel What advice can you offer to anyone considering a Content Marketing and/or Influencer Marketing campaign this year? (Question proposed by Sarah Dandashy) Our Marketing Expert Panel Sarah Dandashy – Travel & Hospitality Expert, Ask a Concierge Reshan Jayamanne – Digital Marketing The post Top Tips for Success in Content and Influencer Marketing Campaigns appeared first on Revfine.com.

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In Jordan, an Ancient Bread Tradition Rises...
October 8, 2022
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In the bustling capital of Amman, Jordan, teachers, dentists, and entrepreneurs kneel in unused lots behind furniture stores and shopping malls, sowing seeds like their ancestors did. Under the tutelage of farmers from the city’s outskirts, they follow the grain from planting to harvest, eventually walking through lush fields of wheat with sickles in hand. They gather enough wheat to feed their families for an entire year, with enough left over to share with friends, relatives, and neighbors. These...

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Meet the Duo Molding the Weird, Wondrous...
October 7, 2022
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On the morning of May 18, 2012, Sam Bompas and his business partner Harry Parr were waist-deep in lime jelly. The two men wore red jumpsuits, all the better to stand out against more than 66,000 gallons of gelatin the color and consistency of the ectoplasm in Ghostbusters. Above them was the hulking, ironclad bow of the SS Great Britain, a Victorian transatlantic steamship that now serves as a museum piece. Normally, the ship stays moored in a glass...

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Seoksu from the Tomb of King Muryeong...
October 7, 2022
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In 1971, a large earthen mound was discovered in Gongju while repairing a drainage system. It turned out to be a tomb, where the remains of Muryeong, the 25th king of Baekje, had lain for some 1,500 years. Among the many treasures found inside the tomb was this small stone creature, a tomb guardian who had faithfully done its duty for over a millennium. A seoksu, or stone animal guardian, is a type of statue that was placed at or within a...

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Rushen Abbey in Ballasalla, Isle of Man
October 7, 2022
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The Rushen Abbey is a former abbey located in the Ballasalla area of the Isle of Man, near the island’s Douglas Airport. The abbey was originally founded in 1134 by an order of monks of an order known as Savignac but later fell under control of the Cistercians, a Catholic religious order. The abbey remained with the Cistercians until the order was dissolved in the 16th century under the strict rules set by King Henry VII. Hoping to increase the...

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Le Petit Tambour in Tourreilles, France
October 7, 2022
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The areas bordering the road from Carcassone to Quillan in the Aude are called Cathar or Grail country. This is because this part of southwest France is unerringly associated with the bloody persecution by the Catholic Church of those in the region who practiced the (heretical) Cathar religion. Add to this the Holy Grail myths and conspiracies surrounding places like Rennes-Le-Château, and you have a potent mix of local history layered thick with highly speculative theories and mystical legends. But not all...

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