Travel Archives - Page 255 of 582 - BRANDMOIAHORA

Say WOW

Suborbital space tourism finally arrives | FCC prepares to run public C-band auction | The big four in the U.S. launch industry — United Launch Alliance, SpaceX, Blue Origin and Northrop Grumman — hope to be one of two providers that will receive five-year contracts later this year to launch national security payloads starting in 2022. | China’s launch rate stays high | The International Space Station is the largest ever crewed object in space.

Everything is a Brand

The All-American Dairy Bar Still Thrives in...

March 24, 2022

Few items on the menu at Betty’s Old Fashion on East Hillsboro Street in El Dorado, Arkansas, ever exceed $10. The hand-packed burgers clock in at $3, while a dipped cone of soft serve is just $1.25. On Sundays, the lunch special of either chicken and dressing, a fried pork chop, or a hamburger steak on a plate heaped with fried okra, turnip greens, purple hull peas, gravy-doused creamed potatoes, cornbread, cake, and tea will set you back $9.88....

The Anthropologist Who Has Spent 50 Years...

March 24, 2022

For Women’s History Month, Atlas Obscura’s Women in Conservation series celebrates women of science who are protecting our planet’s biodiversity in innovative ways. The cigarette butts and plastic wrappers were the first warning signs. The trash, found deep in the rain forest of Southern Borneo’s Tanjung Puting National Park in the late 1990s, was worrisome evidence that a new batch of poachers was on the prowl. Over several decades, the region had been hit by illegal loggers and rampant,...

Why Is Scotland Apologizing Now for Witch...

March 24, 2022

It was October 15, 1633, and Alison Dick wasn’t allowed to sleep. She was covered in grime. Freezing wind cut through her like a knife. Several soldiers loomed outside the dank church steeple that had become her cell. They had been paid 14 shillings to keep her awake, though history doesn’t record how. Perhaps they yelled or poked her or threw water on her. Local church court documents say only that Dick “is ordaned to be wakeit heirafter.” Likely...

The Black Woman Who Didn’t Just Open...

March 24, 2022

Rosa Slade Gragg wasn’t a woman to take no for an answer. So, in 1941, when neighborhood rules wouldn’t allow her to live in a house she wanted to buy in Midtown Detroit because of the color of her skin, Gragg found a creative solution. The organizer and activist had spent a lifetime opening doors previously closed to Black women. Now, she decided, she would just move the door. Fourteen years before Rosa Parks refused to give up her...

Ashoka Pillar, Lumbini in Lumbini Sanskritik, Nepal

March 24, 2022

One of the most prolific bumper sticker and t-shirt slogans in Nepal is “Buddha was born in Nepal.” Although he is often associated with India where he lived and traveled extensively, or with Tibet where his influence is keenly felt, Siddhartha Gautama Buddha is widely believed to have been born in Lumbini, Nepal, where his nascency is majestically celebrated. Standing just outside the renowned Maya Devi Temple in the Lumbini gardens is the Ashoka pillar commemorating this transcendent event....

Ramalama Book Exchange in Wonthaggi, Australia

March 24, 2022

Located in a historic building in the center of Wonthaggi is this used book store. Apparently having once operated as an old money office complete with living spaces for the owner in the back, little has been changed to turn the space into a store. Books pile high on the old counters and every space of the shop is filled up with merchandise for (re)sale—even filling bedroom closets, forming stacks directly on the floor, and filling up slots on...

Sculpture Trails Outdoor Museum in Solsberry, Indiana

March 24, 2022

Sculpture Trails is the perfect blend of outdoor experience and art appreciation. With well over 100 eclectic sculptures of various sizes, this park is a delight to all the senses. There are several paths through the woods, so each visit is different. The sculptures are lovely any time of year, but the change of the seasons exposes different qualities—hiding some figures with leaves in summer, filling the contours of others with snow in winter. First created in 2002, the...

West Gate Tower Museum in Canterbury,...

March 24, 2022

At one point in time, the city of Canterbury had seven gates. Over the following centuries, however, all were demolished with the exception of the West Gate tower, making it both the last surviving medieval gateway in Canterbury as well as the largest surviving city gate in the entire United Kingdom. While it was initially built for war, the stubborn structure has come to wear many hats across the centuries. Because the tower was built during the Hundred Years...

Podcast: Torre Argentina Cat Sanctuary

March 24, 2022

Listen and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. In this episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, Criminal and This is Love host Phoebe Judge brings us to the ancient ruins of Torre Argentina in Rome—the site of Julius Caesar’s assassination, which also happens to double as an enormous sanctuary for cats. 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...

A New Monument Celebrates Nellie Bly's Undercover...

March 23, 2022

In the late 1880s, the reporter Nellie Bly faked her way into an asylum on Blackwell’s Island, in New York’s East River. (The native Lenape people knew the landmass as Minnehanonck, and it was renamed Roosevelt Island in the 1970s.) On assignment for the New York World newspaper, Bly, who was born Elizabeth Cochran Seaman and became one of America’s earliest and most intrepid female investigative journalists, reported on the people who were housed there by playing a patient...

Garum Biblioteca e Museo Della Cucina in...

March 23, 2022

Wedged between the Circus Maximus and the Lupercal, where the city’s founders are said to have been suckled to health by a she-wolf, Rome’s new library and museum presents visitors with a culinary perspective on history. Founded in February 2020 by pâtissier and educator Rossano Boscolo, Garum is hardly the first food museum on earth, yet there’s no other place like it. Spread over two floors, visitors can enjoy the fruits of Boscolo’s four-decade journey spent collecting gastronomic artifacts. ...

Netflix & Hotels: What Can You Apply...

March 23, 2022

Who isn’t familiar with Netflix? With over 222 million subscribers, this streaming platform has become the favorite of thousands of binge-watchers across the globe. You might wonder what hoteliers could learn from such a different company. Probably more than you would expect, hoteliers can replicate so many elements from Netflix’s strategy, but for today, let’s The post Netflix & Hotels: What Can You Apply to Your Hotel’s Marketing Strategy? appeared first on Revfine.com.

The Blue Palace in Warsaw, Poland

March 23, 2022

The Blue Palace, on 37 Senatorska Street, was owned by the Zamoyski Family Fee Tail, the estate of the richest noble family in Poland. Influential in politics and culture for several centuries, the Zamoyski family once had the largest estate in the Second Polish Republic. By the outbreak of World War II, its area covered 56,199 hectares, with brickyards, sawmills, a brewery, and a sugar refinery. The family also had a number of historic properties in Warsaw. The Blue...

Tullyboard Windmill in Portaferry, Northern Ireland

March 23, 2022

Located on the southeast side of Portaferry village is a small hill. On the left-hand side of Windmill Hill road, there is an old Windmill Stump that overlooks the village. From this location, visitors can get some truly inspirational views of Strangford village and the lough as well. When the windmill was in its heyday, it formed a vast network of 50 windmills across the Ards peninsula, known locally as the “Little Holland” of Northern Ireland. The windmills were...

Technology & Automation; The Solution to Staffing...

March 23, 2022

Getting guests to return after travel restrictions were lifted wasn’t a challenge for most hotels. But winning back the staff who left the industry has proven difficult. As a result, understaffing has become one of the pandemic’s toughest consequences for hotels. This creates new problems for an industry still recovering from months of closures. But The post Technology & Automation; The Solution to Staffing Shortages in Hotels appeared first on Revfine.com.

255 of 582
« Previous
1
…
253
254
255
256
257
…
582
Next »

© 2021 BrandMoiAhora. All Rights Reserved

Powered by Curiosity