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The Shark and Ray Rescue Centre in...

August 17, 2021

Australia‘s fishing zone extends from three to 200 nautical miles from the coast, the third largest fishing zone in the world. Every fishing season, as the trawlers and longliners leave the shore to meet their quotas for rock lobster, prawns, and tuna—several other marine species not intended for food find themselves entangled in their nets or ensnared by hooks. The Shark and Ray Rescue Centre has become a lifeline for these creatures, mostly bottom-dwelling sharks and benthic rays who are often...

Podcast: Mississippi River Basin Model

August 17, 2021

Listen and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. In this episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, we walk through a scale model of the massive river basin, one that will have you feeling like a giant, striding from Baton Rouge to Omaha in an hour. 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...

What Revenue Management Technology is Essential for...

August 17, 2021

Question for Our Revenue Management Expert Panel: What are the top “must-have” revenue management technology and tools essential for hotels today? Our Revenue Management Expert Panel Silvia Cantarella – Revenue Management Consultant, Revenue Acrobats Theresa Prins – Founder, Revenue Resolutions Patrick Wimble – Managing Director, Lightbulb Consulting The post What Revenue Management Technology is Essential for Hotels? appeared first on Revfine.com.

New Jersey's 'Meadow Doctor' Wants You To...

August 16, 2021

Despite her small stature, Tama Matsuoka Wong is a woman who commands authority. After graduating from Harvard University in 1983, she practiced law in Hong Kong for over two decades. After food-related allergies began to affect her family, she moved to the United States to start a new life on a weedy patch of grass in New Jersey. Wong’s path to meadow doctoring would start with those weeds in her yard. “It was basically this thing that just took...

The 36-Pound Comic Scrapbook That Chronicles the...

August 16, 2021

“Dear friends of mine, Please write a line / In this little Wash Tubbs book of mine. / Help me Keep you in my Mind” So begins the inscription on the spine of a hulking tome that was once a source of idle amusement for clients at the Bungalow, a barbershop in Fredonia, Kansas. In 1928, the barber, I.A. Persinger, began compiling this collection of “Wash Tubbs” comics, a well-loved daily newspaper strip by artist Roy Crane, whose adventure...

Unlocking the Secrets of 'Invisible' Animals

August 16, 2021

While trekking through the Peruvian rain forest, an eight-hour boat ride from the nearest jungle settlement, biologist Aaron Pomerantz saw what seemed like tiny invisible jets zipping across the trail. “I was out there with a net trying to catch things,” he says, “and these just changed direction and vanished.” It was his first close encounter with clear-winged butterflies, insects that inhabit Central and South American forests and have a remarkable means of camouflage: see-through or “glass” wings that...

Henry Wickenburg Pioneer Cemetery in Wickenburg,...

August 16, 2021

Nestled on a hill between two houses in a quiet neighborhood, the Henry Wickenburg Pioneer Cemetery seems almost as forgotten as its famous namesake. Entering the cemetery feels like trespassing, even though there is signage and clearly marked path. Henry Wickenburg is best remembered for discovering the Vulture Mine and as the founder of Wickenburg, Arizona. Few people realize that he was largely responsible for the creation of a dusty little agricultural town named Phoenix, now the fifth-largest city...

Museo del Burattino in Bergamo, Italy

August 16, 2021

Benedetto Gervasio (1915-1990) was arguably the most famous and best puppet-master of the province of Bergamo. In the late 1940s, he and his wife, Giuseppina Cazzaniga, decided to commit themselves to the art of puppeteering, which occupied them until his death. In 1993, the Benedetto Gervasio Foundation was set up, and Museo del Burattino was eventually opened in 2019. Benedetto was instrumental in breathing life into Ol Giopì, a mask traditional to Bergamo. The earliest evidence of Ol Giopì...

John Poole House in Poolesville, Maryland

August 16, 2021

The John Poole House served as a trading post for local farmers and traveling merchants when it opened in 1793. By 1810, it also functioned as a United States Post Office. The framed portion to the right of the log cabin was added in 1866 and includes an artist studio and the Historic Medley District’s office. Poole was born in 1769 and died in 1828. The grounds are also home to the E.L. Stock, Jr. Memorial Arboretum. This includes...

AFRY Building in Hagalund, Sweden

August 16, 2021

Not all things are as they first appear, and this building is the perfect example of that concept. From a distance, this structure appears to be another ordinary office building, that is until visitors get a closer look. Decorated across the facade of the building are math and physics formulas. The structure also happens to be the headquarters of the technology consultancy company AFRY. Graphic concrete was used by the architect to embed patterns into the concrete. From a...

Griffiths Sea Shell Museum in Lakes Entrance,...

August 16, 2021

Opened in 1962, Griffiths Sea Shell Museum in Gippsland, Victoria features over 90,000 seashells, making it one of the largest private nautical collections in Australia. A colorful assortment of cockles, conchs, sea anemones, and abalones are just a fraction of the many thousands of strange and beautiful shells that fill the wall-to-wall display cases. Also in the collection are specimen jars containing curious creatures dredged from the deep, such as angler fish, goblin sharks, a two-headed baby snapper shark, and...

How Do You Date An Ancient Giant?...

August 16, 2021

This story was originally published on SAPIENS and appears here with permission. In March 2020, archaeologists traveled to a hilltop in Dorset, England, to bag a giant. They sliced into his elbows and feet, then took bits of him back to their labs in bags and metal tubes. No actual behemoth was harmed in the process, because the Cerne Abbas Giant is a geoglyph—a large artwork emblazoned into the landscape. The 180-foot-tall figure was created by scouring away grass...

Proctor's Ledge in Salem, Massachusetts

August 16, 2021

The town of Salem has an odd relationship with its past. The legacy of the 1962-1963 Witch Trials brings in hundreds of visitors, is frequently referenced in pop culture, and has even been adapted to local sports team mascots. On the other hand, during this period the residents of Salem mercilessly executed 20 innocent men and women in one of the most notorious instances of public mass hysteria in United States history. The story of the Salem Witch Trials...

Gate of the Palace of Adil Shah...

August 16, 2021

Amongst the many churches and convents that are a part of Old Goa, lies an unassuming relic from the past. A small flight of steps leading up to a stone doorway. Once upon a time, this was a part of the palace of Yusuf Adil Shah, Sultan of the Bijapur Kingdom. In 1510, Portuguese colonial forces defeated the forces of Adil Shah and assumed control over the land. The palace was used as a residence by the Portuguese Governors...

Podcast: Forbes Pigment Collection

August 16, 2021

Listen and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. In this episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, we visit a repository in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that holds the over 2,700 pigments that’ve been quietly coloring the world around us since the beginning of human history. 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...

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