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The Old Apple Warehouse in Kettle Falls,...

October 11, 2021

Fur trapping and trade with Native Americans drew the first Europeans to the upper Columbia River. Later, European settlers found the land and climate ideal for fruit farming. Orchards sprang up and flourished in the late 19th-century. The Old Apple Warehouse began as a fruit packing plant built adjacent to the rail line in 1908 by the local cooperative. Farmers drove produce-laden wagons into one end of the building, unloaded in the basement for transfer to rail cars, and...

Himmelsweiher (Sky Ponds) in Augsburg, Germany

October 11, 2021

On the night of February 25th to 26th 1944, thousands of bombs fell on Augsburg destroying large parts of the city. Their original target was the aircraft works of the former aviation company Messerschmitt AG, one of the predecessors of Airbus SE. However, thousands of bombs missed their target and hit the city forest Siebentischwald. Countless impact craters still bear witness to this terrible time, but the growing vegetation has obscured their visibility. Since 2011, a public charity transformed some...

Podcast: The Spritz Cookie Gravestone

October 11, 2021

Listen and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. In this episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, we explore the unexpected combination of recipes and graves through the story of Naomi Odessa Miller Dawson’s spritz cookies. This week we’re celebrating the release of our new bookt! It’s called Gastro Obscura: A Food Adventurer’s Guide, a whirlwind tour of the world’s edible wonders. Pre-order your copy, and as a bonus you’ll get some mathematically efficient cookie...

Is a CRM Essential For Delivering Personalised...

October 11, 2021

Question for Our Hotel Marketing Expert Panel Personalised guest experiences are becoming increasingly important and maintaining rich guest profiles helps hotels deliver on preferences and anticipate needs. Is a CRM essential for personalisation? Our Marketing Expert Panel Adele Gutman – Culture and Guest Experience Expert, Hospitality Reputation Marketing The post Is a CRM Essential For Delivering Personalised Hotel Experiences? appeared first on Revfine.com.

Is This the End of Switzerland’s Chimney...

October 8, 2021

Imagine opening your front door, still in your pajamas, on a frosty Swiss morning, only to find a man dressed entirely in black staring back at you. Charcoal trousers, top hat, and boots, a little broom and dustpan peeking out of his bag. He waves an official-looking document in the air and insists on entering your house. A little bemused, you wave the chimney sweep in. Such encounters are common in Switzerland, where these men and women in black...

New to Gastro Obscura? Start Here!

October 8, 2021

So you’ve heard about Gastro Obscura—maybe thanks to our new book—and you’re wondering what it’s all about. Well, you’re in the right place. Gastro Obscura is run by a team within Atlas Obscura of food-obsessed writers, editors, trip planners, and more. Since our launch in 2017, our goal has been to inspire wonder and curiosity about the world through food and drink. And we do that in a few different ways: Articles & Recipes We publish stories about food...

Ungurmuiža Manor in Ungurmuiža, Latvia

October 8, 2021

Initially, this estate was owned by Baron von Ungern, hence the name Ungurmuiža. Later property rights were bought by Landrat Johann Baltazar von Kampenhausen who ordered to rearrange and built the mansion house that we know today. Works were finished in 1732 when the baron’s family moved in. Ungurmuiža manor is the only surviving baroque-style wooden house in Latvia. It blends nicely with the lush countryside and oak grove around the mansion house. The building was decorated with wall...

Explore a Century of Halloween in L.A....

October 8, 2021

Halloween is a huge thing in L.A.,” says Christina Rice, a senior librarian for the Los Angeles Public Library—and she has proof. She oversees the library’s photo collection—an estimated three to four million snapshots of life in the city, housed on a single floor at the Central Library Downtown. The collection was founded in the 1940s to document the rapidly changing city, and has grown through donations ever since. It includes both major news events and less-major ones, including...

Russian Fort Elizabeth in Waimea, Hawaii

October 8, 2021

At the turn of the 18th century, the mighty Russian Empire was just beginning to extend its influence across the Bering Sea into their newly acquired territory on their third occupied continent: North America. Spearheading this expansion eastward was the Russian American Company, which had been tasked by Emperor Pavel I with a mission to built trading relationships with the native people and expand Russia’s colonial interests in the New World. Pavlovsk (modern-day Kodiak, Alaska) and Novo Arkhangelsk (modern-day Sitka,...

Harley Davidson Monument in Littleport, England

October 8, 2021

William Harley was born in Littleport, England in May 1835. He left his hometown in 1859 for the United States and joined the Army. There, he fought on the side of the Union army in the American Civil War. His son, William Sylvester Harley, was born in the U.S. in 1880 and went on to form the Harley Davidson Motor Company with Arthur Davidson in 1903. This monument in Littleport was commissioned to celebrate the 100th birthday of the...

Blue Blazes Whiskey Still in Thurmont, Maryland

October 8, 2021

A secluded clearing by a stream in the Catoctin Mountain Park in Thurmont, Maryland, was once the site of the notorious Blue Blazes Still, the largest illegal whiskey manufacturing enterprise to operate in Frederick County in the early 1900s. The clearing was also the location of an infamous raid that resulted in the shooting death of Frederick County Deputy Sheriff Clyde Hauver and the destruction of the operation. The practice of distilling whiskey in the mountains of western Maryland...

Aungier Street Lidl Archaelogy in Ireland

October 8, 2021

Constructed into the floor of this Dublin branch of Lidl, in the shadow of the ancient Dublin Castle, is a series of glass panels that showcase a long-hidden history. One of these museum-like glass panels reveals the archeological remains of a structure constructed almost 1,000 years ago. Dating to around 1070 CE, the structure was dug into the ground lined with local limestone and planks, and was then sheltered by a thatch roof. Archeological evidence showed that the structure...

Sleeping Giant Observation Tower in Hamden, Connecticut

October 8, 2021

Sleeping Giant State Park gets its name from the Quinnipiac people due to its resemblance to a figure lying on its back. They believed the figure to be Hobbomock, a wicked figure in local mythology. Today, the area is one of southern Connecticut’s most popular state parks, and this unique stone tower is its main attraction. The tower, and the wide path leading up to it, were developed in the 1930s as part of the New Deal’s Works Progress...

Willamette Stone Heritage Park in Portland, Oregon

October 8, 2021

Portland’s scenic Skyline Boulevard weaves in and out of the forested West Hills, making it a favorite of bikers, runners, and Sunday drivers. With so much natural beauty, many visitors completely miss the sign and winding narrow path leading to an unassuming survey marker that is the ultimate definition of property lines in all of Oregon and Washington since 1851. As part of the 1803 Louisiana Purchase, the United States established the Oregon Territory in 1848 after agreeing on...

Crane Melon Barn in Santa Rosa, California

October 7, 2021

Wine, especially French wine, is tied to the idea of terroir, that the climate and soil where grapes are grown has an indelible influence on the final product. People care a lot, then, about whether their wine is from the Loire or Napa Valley. But not too many people care about where their melon comes from—unless they’re a fan of the Crane melon, a hyper-local fruit developed and grown by a single family in Santa Rosa, California. True, the...

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