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Ancient Drinking Games Ended With Wine Stains...

October 19, 2021

This article is adapted from the October 16, 2021, edition of Gastro Obscura’s Favorite Things newsletter. You can sign up here. Last week, the Gastro Obscura team assembled via Zoom for an ancient tradition. Each of us reclined on our couch, took aim with a large spoon full of liquid, and hurled it at a small target positioned atop a teetering tower. We were playing an adapted form of kottabos, a drinking game that dates back to ancient Greece....

Jurassic Ark in Bells Bridge, Australia

October 19, 2021

The creation of the universe has many theories and several interpretations. One of the more controversial theories—because it is unfounded in scientific fact—has been posed by the young-Earth Creationists, who believe that the earth and all its lifeforms appeared no more than 10,000 years ago. Jurassic Ark is an open-air demonstration of this theory. Founded by John Mackay, a former geologist and now the International Director of the Creation Research Centre, the aim of the Ark is to challenge...

Sunkenkirk in Cumbria, England

October 19, 2021

Also known as Swinside Stone Circle, or sometimes Swineshead, this monument lies beside Swinside Fells in the area of Black Combe. Sunkenkirk is a Neolithic site, one of more than 1,000 stone circles found across the British Isles and Brittany. Local folklore states that the stone circle was created at night, when the devil would pull down the stones of a church that was being constructed on the site during the day. This is the reason the site became...

Kankan Jizō in Tokyo, Japan

October 19, 2021

The Sensō-ji Temple complex is one of Tokyo‘s most popular tourist spots, visited by millions of people every year. While its main attraction is the big, brilliant red temple of Buddhist goddess Kannon and the traditional shopping street leading up to it, there are several lesser temples and a Japanese garden at the back that are well worth noting. One such temple is the Zenizuka Jizō-dō pavilion, dedicated to the popular earth-god Jizō and believed to be a source...

The Bremer Car in London, England

October 19, 2021

The Vestry House Museum in the London neighborhood of Walthamstow houses a car constructed by Frederick Bremer in 1892. The Bremer Car, as it has come to be known, was the first car with an internal combustion engine built in the United Kingdom. Bremer worked from a workshop outside his house on Connaught Road in Walthamstow. At first, it was not clear how functional the car might be, since Bremer apparently kept it stored in the workshop after a...

Legato School Museum in Fairfax, Virginia

October 19, 2021

The Legato School was originally located at the intersection of Pender and Legato Roads, where it operated between the late 1870s until 1930. It was moved to Chain Bridge Road in 1971 as part of the Fairfax County Public School Centennial. The roof was moved separately from the rest of the building, and was reassembled at the new site with students from nearby Woodson High School assisting with the restoration. The museum has been furnished to mimic the look...

Hermit's Castle in Achmelvich, Scotland

October 19, 2021

Scotland is renowned the world over as a land of dramatic scenery steeped in history, with many ancient castles to explore. However, on a windswept headland in the middle of nowhere is perhaps one of the most interesting and unusual castles of them all. Despite its rather garish, Brutalist style of angular geometric shapes, the “castle” fits well into its surroundings with a tapestry of pebbles and shells etched into the concrete. The interior is equally bizarre. As visitors...

Is This a Forest or Ghostly Hands...

October 19, 2021

In the misty predawn or dead of winter, or in the blackest heart of the witching hour—especially then—forests can be spooky places. It can seem like trees are crowding in, making us feel claustrophobic, and the myriad sounds, from caws and howls to twigs snapping as something moves closer, can remind us that we’re just one species in big, hungry world, a species that’s not always at the top of the food chain. Italian photographer Silvano Paiola shows how...

Podcast: Maine’s Burning Blueberry Fields

October 19, 2021

Listen and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. In this episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, we travel to Penobscot, Maine, where one farmer maintains the tradition of burning his crop each year to rejuvenate it the next. 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...

How Can Revenue Management Collaborate with Sales...

October 19, 2021

Question for Our Revenue Management Expert Panel: For best collaboration, should Revenue Management fall under Sales & Marketing – or vice versa? Should they be separate departments on the same level of the hotel hierarchy? Or one single department? Our Revenue Management Expert Panel Chaya Kowal – Director The post How Can Revenue Management Collaborate with Sales & Marketing Teams? appeared first on Revfine.com.

The Eventful Afterlife of a Crowd of...

October 18, 2021

In many ways, the Mütter Museum in Philadelphia is, proudly, stuck in amber. “It’s the 19th century in there,” exhibition manager Michael Keys says of the “museum of a museum” where human remains are displayed in glass cases surrounded by gleaming polished wood, much the way they were when the gallery opened after in 1859, after the death of surgeon and medical artifact collector Thomas Dent Mütter. For visitors, it is a window into the education of medical professionals...

Verdis in Kopačevo, Croatia

October 18, 2021

On May 30, 2019, the Free Republic of Verdis, a new, self-proclaimed sovereign state in Europe was formed on a piece of disputed unclaimed land between Croatia and Serbia locally known as Pocket 3 of the Croatia-Serbia border dispute near Liberland, another self-proclaimed sovereign state. Since Verdis’ founding, the unrecognized state has received a large amount of following on social media along with a large number of applications towards citizenship and has representatives managing the claim. The Free Republic...

Doris Duke's Pet Cemetery in Hillsborough Township,...

October 18, 2021

Aided by the status of the “world’s richest girl” during the twilight of the Gilded Age, Doris Duke lived a life of many passions and pursuits, including her love of animals. Over the years, her undertakings ranged wildly from competitive surfing to covering foreign news during the 1940s, to being a horticulturist and supporting wildlife refuges. Her main residence was a sprawling 2,700-acre New Jersey estate called Duke Farms, which contained Duke Gardens, once among the largest public indoor botanical displays in America. She...

The Weeks Estate in Lancaster, New Hampshire

October 18, 2021

Sitting above the beautiful Prospect Mountain in Lancaster, New Hampshire, sits the humble, yet historic retreat of John W. Weeks, a politician whose advocacy for environmental preservation saved much of the land in the surrounding White Mountains region. Weeks, a Lancaster native, became an important figure in both local and national politics in the early 20th-century. Serving as the mayor of Newton, Massachusetts, as well as a representative and senator for the Bay State, Weeks became somewhat of a...

Sulphur Springs in Soufriere, Saint Lucia

October 18, 2021

Located at what’s billed as “the only drive-in volcano in the world,” Sulphur Springs is a magical, muddy geothermal spring located near the small Caribbean town of Soufriere. The town’s name means “sulphur mine,” a product of French colonists who extracted the mineral at a site near Soufriere in the early 1800s. The Sulphur Springs are located within a volcanic valley. They formed approximately 300,000 years ago when a section of crust from an enormous crater collapsed, disturbing the...

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