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Birthplace of Buddy Guy in Lettsworth, Louisiana

April 13, 2022

George “Buddy” Guy was born on July 30, 1936, in Lettsworth, Louisiana. Guy started playing music on a diddley bow, a small stringed instrument that he made himself using wire, a piece of wood, and his mother’s hairpins. His parents were sharecroppers, and though they had little money, Guy’s father bought a guitar from another fieldhand so he could keep learning. As a teenager, Guy began performing in Baton Rouge, then moved to Chicago at the age of 21. He...

Cosmo Isle Hakui in Hakui, Japan

April 13, 2022

Japan is no stranger to purported UFO sightings, early cases date all the way back to the Middle Ages. The city of Hakui in western Japan has turned to this history of sightings to revitalize its tourism industry. Local texts from the Heian period (794-1185 CE) mention frequent sightings of sōhachibon, unidentified flying objects named after Buddhist cymbals. The city’s tourism committee promoted this legend nationwide to attract visitors at the height of Japan’s UFO fad in the 1980s, and it...

Podcast: The Rotary Jail Museum

April 13, 2022

Listen and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. In this episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, we visit the only remaining operational rotary jail, which shows visitors how inmates were once locked within the building’s walls. 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...

How can Hotels Best Manage Reputation and...

April 13, 2022

Question for Our Hotel Marketing Expert Panel Good reviews are essential in the hospitality industry. What are your best practices for maintaining a great Net Promoter Score & successful reputation management? (Question proposed by Adele Gutman) Our Marketing Expert Panel Adele Gutman – Culture and Guest Experience Expert, The post How can Hotels Best Manage Reputation and Net Promoter Scores? appeared first on Revfine.com.

One Woman's Quest to Create Truly Japanese...

April 12, 2022

Chiyo Shibata stands in a small concert venue, her signature white towel tied around her head. Behind her is a group of taiko drummers and in front of her is a small table with a burner, milk, and salt. As the drumming begins, she takes a deep breath and begins to make cheese. This is not her usual workshop. “One of my goals is to introduce Japan through cheese,” Shibata says, as we settle at the counter of the...

Game Boy that Survived a Bombing in...

April 12, 2022

When Nintendo debuted the Game Boy in 1989, it revolutionized the gaming industry. Gamers were no longer restricted to staying home or visiting an arcade to play video games. They now had the freedom to take their favorite game anywhere they wanted. This new level of portability meant that the handheld system needed to be durable to survive whatever damage it may encounter. While the manufacturers in Japan may have prided themselves on how tough the Game Boy was,...

Planespotting With the ‘Avgeeks’

April 12, 2022

Nick Benson, Dave Honan, and Jeremy Dwyer-Lindgren all grew up under flight paths. For some, living under a frequent parade of planes is a noisy, house-shaking, sleep-depriving nuisance. But for these three, it’s always been an endless source of fascination. Benson, a web developer from the Twin Cities, says that as a kid he stood in his backyard and watched the planes, leaning back for a longer glimpse—and sometimes just falling over. Honan lives in western Washington today but...

Meet the Man Who Wants to Make...

April 12, 2022

Life on Antarctica’s Cuverville Island can be harsh. Colonies of orange-billed gentoo penguins scale its often windy, snow-covered slopes, building nests for their young with small stones and pebbles they gather from the island’s rocky outcrops. Patches of moss and lichen grow sparingly, some of the few signs of flora on an otherwise barren land. But on one day in February, an unusually out-of-place sight appeared: a man sitting in a chair. “I’d never come across someone wanting to...

Shadow Boxes of Almudena Cemetery in Cusco,...

April 12, 2022

Almudena Cemetery is the oldest cemetery in Cusco and over the years has expanded up to seven acres. Now more than 23,000 people are buried here, most in stacked crypts with shadowbox window displays created by the deceased’s families. Families pay annual rental fees to keep the bodies entombed. Each shadowbox is uniquely decorated, with toys, flowers, photos, mementos, and figurines displayed behind glass. Local schoolboys are paid by families to clean the metal surfaces of the tombs with lemon...

Mulberry Harbour Wreck in Hayling Island, England

April 12, 2022

The D-Day landings went down in history, but without a sufficient port to offload all the supplies for the entire Western Front onto, the invasion of Normandy would be short-lived. The answer to this problem was to build a temporary, but giant floating harbour of concrete and steel, named Mulberry Harbour. The United Kingdom got to work constructing the Mulberry Harbours before floating them across to France secretly just before D-Day. Two Mulberry Harbours (the first at Omaha Beach...

Grave of Peter Salem in Framingham, Massachusetts

April 12, 2022

Near the bustling center of Framingham, tucked away behind Route 9 in a small residential neighborhood, lies a small but important cemetery. Established in 1698, the Old Burying Ground Cemetery is older than the city itself which was incorporated in 1700. What makes this cemetery notable is that it’s the burying ground of 89 Revolutionary War veterans and one grave in particular is the resting place of an individual who made a distinguished impact on history. Peter Salem was...

Carberry Hill Monument in Carberry, Scotland

April 12, 2022

This obscure monument records the capture of Mary Queen of Scots after the Battle of Carberry Hill. The location marks both a pivotal event in Scottish history and the moment Mary sacrificed her liberty for the love of her husband. Mary Stuart, better known as Mary, Queen of Scots, had become queen as an infant after her father, James V of Scotland, died. In 1565, she married Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, and had a son with him. But just two years...

Palau Güell in Barcelona, Spain

April 12, 2022

Built by Antoni Gaudí for his patron Eusebi Güell, this singular building was Gaudí’s first major work and the beginning of a long-running collaboration between the two men, which resulted in some of the most noteworthy buildings in Barcelona. Güell, who made a great fortune during the industrial revolution in the late 19th century, wanted to build a large stately mansion in the heart of Barcelona. He acquired the houses adjacent to the one he had inherited from his...

Soil Scientists Dig Deep to Understand the...

April 12, 2022

Stephan Mantel was on a quest. As he disembarked from the third flight since leaving Amsterdam, the tropical heat enveloped him. He had arrived in Putussibau, in the heart of Borneo, Asia’s largest island. A local guide and two hired helpers joined him for an hour-long journey along tributaries of the Kapuas River. Their boat, made from a hollowed-out tree trunk, sat so low that Mantel could trail his hand in the water. They docked and trekked deeper into...

Castello di Padernello in Padernello, Italy

April 11, 2022

In the countryside near the city of Brescia stands the Padernello manor, which, towards the end of the 1300s, was a simple defensive tower protected by a moat. Starting in 1391, the structure became the property of the Martinengo, a family of mercenary soldiers who left their homeland of Bergamo during the 12th century to move to the outskirts of Brescia to serve the Duchy of Milan and, later, the Republic of Venice. The Martinengos dedicated themselves to the...

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