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The Remains of Hell Point in Annapolis,...

September 22, 2021

In the early 1990s, the Navy hired University of Maryland anthropologist Mark Leone to investigate the Naval Academy’s campus in Annapolis, specifically parts that would be affected by new development projects. Using digital mapping, Leone and his team found an abundance of remains, including the remains of two lost neighborhoods that were demolished before World War II as the school expanded. One of those neighborhoods was known as Hell Point. The parking lot next to Halsey Field House is...

Frederick Douglass Mural in Edinburgh, Scotland

September 22, 2021

To commemorate Black History Month in Britain, a mural of Frederick Douglass was unveiled prior to October 2020. The black and white painting was the work of a local graffiti artist who goes by the moniker of @TrenchOne. But why would an artwork celebrating an American statesman appear in the capital of Scotland? The illustration is located a stone’s throw away from the Union Canal. During the 1840s, the world-renowned social reformer took up residence just a couple of...

Fredrick Douglass Mural in Edinburgh, Scotland

September 22, 2021

To commemorate Black History Month in Britain, a mural of Fredrick Douglass was unveiled prior to October 2020. The black and white painting was the work of a local graffiti artist who goes by the moniker of @TrenchOne. But why would an artwork celebrating an American statesman appear in the capital of Scotland? The illustration is located a stone’s throw away from the Union Canal. During the 1840s, the world-renowned social reformer took up residence just a couple of...

Podcast: Rödstensgubben

September 22, 2021

Listen and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. In this episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, during a trip to Sweden, producer Sarah Wyman digs into a superstitious story passed through generations—about the Red Stone Man. 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...

An Analyze of How Hoteliers Handled Revenue...

September 22, 2021

Using past data to predict future revenue during a pandemic might seem counterintuitive to many hoteliers. After all, hotel revenue management is always a complex science. How can you predict anything during a pandemic? In this article, you’ll learn how fellow hoteliers dealt with the Corona pandemic. Three Different Paths During the Pandemic As a The post An Analyze of How Hoteliers Handled Revenue Management During the Pandemic appeared first on Revfine.com.

Meet the Egyptian Scientists Studying 'Ghosts' of...

September 21, 2021

A few years ago, Abdullah Gohar’s mother introduced him to a ghost. That’s how she phrased it, and at first, Gohar was confused. “What are you talking about?” he recalls asking her. But he was also intrigued: She wasn’t alluding to seances and ectoplasm, but rather prehistoric bones, toes from an ancient elephant that had trundled through their neighborhood millions of years before. Gohar grew up near Egypt’s Fayum Depression, a basin southwest of Cairo that’s studded with the...

The Last Wild Coffee Forests

September 21, 2021

This article is adapted from the September 18, 2021, edition of Gastro Obscura’s Favorite Things newsletter. You can sign up here. Coffee is everywhere. It’s in espressos and cappuccinos; it’s in pods and packets of Nescafé. It’s in small-town gas stations and big-city cafés. It’s on every continent. Some 90 percent of people on Earth start the day with caffeine, usually tea or coffee. All that coffee can be traced back to one place: patches of forest in Ethiopia....

A Secret History of Venice Is Written...

September 21, 2021

When he first entered the Lazzaretto Nuovo, on the island of the same name just north of Venice, Gerolamo Fazzini made his way through the overgrowth, which over the years had invaded the entire structure. He entered through a hole to find sunlight streaming in through the cracks made by poplars that had fallen into the walls. “I turned my gaze toward a wall and I noticed patches of color here and there behind the lime,” he says. “It...

Berbera Shipwrecks in Berbera, Somalia

September 21, 2021

Located just off the Somaliland coast in and around the port of Berbera, lie hulking shipwrecks and rusting, half-sunken ships. These wrecks are both gathered in clusters near the port, where the harbor is too shallow for the wrecks to sink fully, and can also be found further out into the Gulf of Aden. Berbera is the capital of the Sahil region of Somaliland, an unrecognized sovereign state in the Horn of Africa. In ancient times, Berbera was one city...

Clitheroe Castle in Lancashire, England

September 21, 2021

Clitheroe Castle in Lancashire, England, is all that remains of a former motte and bailey type castle. It was known as an enclosure castle, which meant the outer wall formed the most important part of its defenses. Unfortunately, most of the original curtain wall has been lost. The castle keep, the second smallest stone keep in England, is in very good condition for a 12th-century structure, but there was extensive restoration work in 1848. Most English motte and bailey...

Paricutin Volcano in Nuevo San Juan Parangaricutiro,...

September 21, 2021

In 1943, local farmers started hearing underground thunders and noticed steam filtering from the Earth in the town of Paricutín. In February, Dionisio Pulido escaped from his cropland as smoke arose from fissures caused by the eruption. By dusk, flames rose like fireworks into the air. Volcanic eruptions continued for nine more years at what became one of the Earth’s youngest volcanoes. Climbing the volcanic cone is a fun adventure best done early in the morning. No special equipment...

Wolf Road Prairie in Westchester, Illinois

September 21, 2021

Amongst a network of strip malls, highways, and fast food joints just outside Chicago, you will find the Wolf Road Prairie. Back in the 1920s, half of the 80-acre lot at the intersection of Wolf Road and 31st Street in Westchester, Illinois had been slated for housing development. The prairie had been divided into nearly 600 lots for housing and commercial development. Lots were sold and developers went so far as to lay down concrete sidewalks in the southern end...

Rottingdean Wishing Stone in Rottingdean, England

September 21, 2021

Stuck high up on a wall verging on a busy road in the village of Rottingdean, this piece of local folklore located on the former home of Rudyard Kipling is so hard to find even most locals might not know its there. To some, it looks like a dog, to others a human face, or even a gargoyle. Nobody knows exactly what it is supposed to be, but this curious stone is the center of an odd local custom. Local custom...

Podcast: Martian Meteorites and Greek Columns With...

September 21, 2021

Listen and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. Editors Jonathan and Michelle are back again in the latest episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast with a few new standout entries to the Atlas, including a spot in Antarctica that’s home to the oldest Martian meteorite and a column in Greece that symbolizes the fear and ritual past generations embraced when faced with their own plague. Our podcast is an audio guide to the world’s...

Eat Like a Medieval Saint With Her...

September 20, 2021

Hildegard of Bingen was a 12th-century nun, mystic, prophet, and healer. She led an abbey, communed with God, advised royalty, and chastised emperors. She also made cookies. Committed to a hermitage from the age of eight, Hildegard rose to prominence as a result of her divine visions. In a series of books, she relayed messages from God that ranged from the metaphysical to the practical. Along with fiery depictions of the world as a “cosmic egg” enveloped in the...

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