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How Optimized Housekeeping Operations Save Costs &...

February 25, 2022

Given the challenges the international hospitality industry faced in recent years, total hotel revenue optimization (THRO) is essential today. This probably brings up ideas like optimizing revenue generation in rooms, F&B, and the spa for you and most other hoteliers. But what about housekeeping? While this department was historically seen as a cost center, it The post How Optimized Housekeeping Operations Save Costs & Drive Hotel Revenue appeared first on Revfine.com.

Shepherdstown Public Library in Shepherdstown, West Virginia

February 25, 2022

Though it is now a library, this small white building in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, has had a number of other uses over the last 200 years. Constructed in 1800, this building was originally a one-story farmer’s market known as the Market House. In 1845, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows (IOOF) petitioned the town to build a second story to hold their meetings. The rituals of the IOOF required a room on the second floor with opaque windows in...

'Inscription of the Island' in Singapore

February 25, 2022

In this sculpture at Changi Beach Park, artist Lim Soo Ngee imagines what the monumental relics of Bronze Age Singapore might look like. Taking inspiration from the Colossus of Rhodes, Lim envisioned a statue that stood by the Kingdom of Singapura’s trade routes, stretching out a finger to act as a sundial and guiding vessels from all around the region into Singapura’s port. Like much of classical Singapore’s history, the bulk of the imagined Colossus had since been lost,...

Tynwald Hill in St. John's, Isle of...

February 25, 2022

This four-tiered hill in the village of St John’s on the Isle of Man is one of the island’s most distinctive and historic landmarks. The Tynwald Hill marks Isle of Man’s independence as a self-governing crown dependency. Once a year on July 5th, Tynwald Day (Isle of Man’s – National Day), an open-air meeting of the Island’s parliament is held where new laws are proclaimed from the preceding year. A military procession is conducted, as well as the singing...

Point Breeze Estate in Bordentown, New Jersey

February 25, 2022

After his older brother’s defeat at Waterloo and the collapse of his own government in Spain, Joseph Bonaparte fled in disguise to the United States. He briefly lived amongst other French expatriates in New York and Philadelphia before purchasing 1,800 acres in Bordentown, New Jersey. With this land located roughly halfway between Philadelphia and New York, Bonaparte planned to turn his Point Breeze Estate into the new center of high society in the United States. To entertain guests, the...

A Revived Museum Presents the Full History...

February 24, 2022

The thick summer air of Marion, Indiana, was still on that awful night in 1930. A 16-year-old boy, weak and beaten, stood between the bodies of his two friends. The other Black teenagers had just been lynched, and a mob of townspeople jeered and chanted as a noose was placed around his neck and tightened. He closed his eyes and started to pray. The shouting swelled to a roar. Then a lone voice stood out amid the din. A...

The Supernatural Sheep of Slovenia's Door-to-Door Carnival

February 24, 2022

As part of a special series for 2022, we’re doing a deep visual dive into fascinating Carnival traditions around the world. If spring is nigh, and hordes of people are roaming around in sheep costumes making lots of noise, it’s a safe bet you’ve found yourself at Kurentovanje in Ptuj, in northeastern Slovenia. This annual rite of spring carnival begins 11 days before Ash Wednesday—and if you’re in the area, you’ll know. The core of the carnival consists of...

Boothe Memorial Park in Stratford, Connecticut

February 24, 2022

When Richard Boothe laid the foundation for his farmhouse in 1663, he could have never predicted what would become of his property in the 20th century. The 34-acre homestead in Stratford, Connecticut is now home to an unexpected collection of 28 buildings, including a 44-sided blacksmith shop, a miniature lighthouse, and the state’s last remaining highway tollbooth. These curious structures were built by two of Richard’s descendants: brothers David Beach Boothe, born in 1867, and Stephen Nichols Boothe, born...

Alter Flugplatz Frankfurt am Main in Frankfurt,...

February 24, 2022

After World War II, fearing a Soviet invasion from East Germany, American forces converted a once-quaint airfield outside of Frankfurt into a U.S. military heliport. The complex was built for an Infantry Division stationed in nearby barracks who manned a great number of different helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft stationed in Bonames. Of course, the invasion never came to pass, and after the closure of the airfield in 1992, its use became fragmented. The hangars and tower buildings were used...

Guardians of the First Amendment Memorial in...

February 24, 2022

Five granite pillars stand in a brick plaza in Annapolis, Maryland, as a memorial to five employees of the Capital Gazette newspaper who were killed in 2018. It honors Gerald Fischman, Rob Hiaasen, John McNamara, Rebecca Smith, and Wendi Winters, who have been memorialized as protectors of free speech and guardians of the first amendment. On the afternoon of June 28, 2018, a man appeared at the Capital Gazette offices wielding a pump-action shotgun. After shooting out the glass door, the gunman...

Laurel Hill Tunnel Racecar Testing in Stahlstown,...

February 24, 2022

In southwestern Pennsylvania, the 4,541-foot-long (1,384-meter) tunnel that runs underneath Laurel Ridge has had many uses since it was first carved out in the late 19th century. Originally the structure had been built for a planned South Pennsylvania Railroad, but after that project fell through, the structure was incorporated into a new high-speed roadway, the Pennsylvania Turnpike. When it first opened in 1940, the turnpike was hailed as the newest, fastest way to travel across the state. But the...

'Veado' in Nazaré, Portugal

February 24, 2022

If you want to know what you can find at this site, it’s a 6.3-meter (21 ft) statue of a human figure with the head of a deer, holding a surfboard. But if you want to know how exactly this enigmatic statue came about, it’s a long story that goes back to the earliest days of Christianity. In the fourth century, a Greek monk by the name of Ciriaco “rescued” a statuette called Our Lady of Nazareth that was believed...

Memorium Nürnberger Prozesse (Nuremberg Trials Memorial) in...

February 24, 2022

Not far from the center of Nuremberg stands a grand old building in the Renaissance Revival style. In 1945, this was the backdrop to one of the most historically and legally significant cases of international law, the Nuremberg Trials, in which the surviving leaders of Nazi Germany were tried for their crimes. After the end of World War II, the Allied powers sought to bring to justice the people responsible for the Holocaust and war crimes committed by the Third...

Les Rochers du Carnaval in Uchon, France

February 24, 2022

Perhaps fittingly, the gigantic boulders strewn about this mountain range in central France are a result of granitic chaos—a natural phenomenon caused by erosion. The granite weathers heavily in cooler, rainy climates, allowing particles to collect between individual granite lumps. These deposits are then washed away by water or blown away by wind, leaving the granite rocks stacked atop one another in unusual formations. This phenomenon is unusual in Burgundy and within France. The “Rochers du Carnaval” is one...

Neseblod Records in Oslo, Norway

February 24, 2022

This unassuming storefront should be a top priority for any metal fan visiting Oslo. A record shop and unofficial metal museum in Norway‘s capitol city, Neseblod Records (“nosebleed”) is also central in many regards to the early history of black metal. The record shop, originally named Helvete, was first opened in June 1991 by the late and now-infamous guitarist Euronymous. The term helvete is Norwegian for “hell,” and comes from the Norse hels víti, translating to “hell’s punishment.” As...

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