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How a Canadian Beekeeper Breeds New Queens

July 6, 2021

Anicet Desrochers slips the small, crowbar-like tool underneath the lid of the beehive and cracks the propolis seal, a glue that bees make from resin. He puffs a smoker over the box as he pulls and examines the honeycomb frames with bare hands. The smoke, he says, disrupts the bees’ alarm pheromones, making them groggy, while also causing them to gorge on honey and nectar, a possible response to believing there is a fire. When they’re full, they’re less...

Svetlogorsk Beach Gondolas in Svetlogorsk, Russia

July 6, 2021

The Baltic resort of Svetlogorsk in Russia‘s Kaliningrad region is located on top of a cliff above the sea. To bring visitors down to the beach, the city’s unique fleet of tiny yellow gondolas carries just one or two people at a time. The town became a fashionable vacation spot in the early 19th century, back when the resort was called Rauschen and belonged to the German province of East Prussia. Because a sand dune limited access to the...

Cape Eleuthera Resort Ruins in South Eleuthera,...

July 6, 2021

Welcome to paradise lost. Located at the southern terminus of Queen’s Highway, on the quiet shoestring-shaped island of Eleuthera, lie the ruins of a decadent era. Opened in 1972, the Cape Eleuthera Resort hosted well-heeled jet-setters during the island’s tourism heyday. Built in conjunction with former Pan Am founder Juan Trippe, who set up a small, now derelict airport nearby, the former resort was an excuse to day-trip from Florida for a round of golf and business luncheons. Described in...

More Gray Wolves Are Calling Northern California...

July 6, 2021

This story was originally published in The Guardian and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A new gray wolf pack has established itself in northern California, retaking a part of the vast territory that the species used to inhabit. The fledgling Beckwourth pack has set down roots in Plumas County, near the California-Nevada border, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) reported in June. Its three members include LAS12F, a two-year-old female wolf born in...

Historic Railroad Hiking Trail in Boulder City,...

July 6, 2021

Hoover Dam, of course, is a famous technological megaproject from the 1930s, spanning the Colorado River between Nevada and Arizona. At the time, the railroad was the only practical transportation technology for such a large project, so a dedicated rail line was constructed to the dam site. The upper rail line, which ran nearly to the top of the dam, got some desultory use after the dam’s completion, but the tracks were torn up after the last generator was...

Taforalt (Cave of Pigeons) in Berkane, Morocco

July 6, 2021

The cave of Taforalt, also known as the Grotte des Pigeons, sits right outside the village of the same name in eastern Morocco. Considered the oldest cemetery in North Africa, the site contained at least 34 Iberomaurusian skeletons dating to the Later Stone Age, around 15,000 calendar years ago. Archaeological evidence has also revealed that the Iberomaurusians lived in the cave around 23,000 years ago, and the earliest Aterian occupation here may date back to 85,000 years ago. Thanks...

Ceiling of the Cloister of San Juan...

July 6, 2021

The temple and former convent of San Juan Evangelista in Coyoacán are well known. However, people who enter the courtyard of the former convent rarely look up to find one of the best-kept secrets in the tourist center of Coyoacán. In two of the four corners of the patio, the baroque coffered ceiling of the convent still survives. The decorations are made with wood, paint, and some fragments are colored with gold foil. Most of the boxes are allusions...

Arthur Wharton Mural in Darlington, England

July 6, 2021

Arthur Wharton is generally considered to be the first-ever Black professional footballer in Great Britain and the world. Wharton was born in the Gold Coast (now Ghana) in 1865 and moved to England at the age of 19 to pursue training in the Methodist church. Once in Europe, Wharton soon abandoned his religious aims and instead focused on becoming a full-time athlete. He excelled in cycling, cricket, and most notably football. Wharton’s first club was Darlington, where he played...

Tule Springs Ranch in Las Vegas, Nevada

July 6, 2021

Tule Springs lie in the northwest part of the Las Vegas Valley, at the edge of the present city. As a perennial water source in this arid land, the springs have always been of extraordinary importance to the area’s people and wildlife. To this day several ponds support substantial waterfowl populations, as well as other wildlife and even fish stocks. Unsurprisingly, the springs were homesteaded around the end of the 19th century. The ranch acted as a stage stop...

Bosco Fontana in Marmirolo, Italy

July 6, 2021

The movement of glaciers during the last ice age created an expansive flat landscape in northern Italy called Pianura Padana. The whole country was covered by forests until the expansion of Romans that started to cut trees and to build long roads and bigger city. Since that period, the Pianura Padana almost underwent complete deforestation. Nowdays Pianura Padana is the most important agricultural region in Italy and home to some of the country’s biggest cities, such as Turin, Venice, Verona,...

Podcast: Dude Chilling Park

July 6, 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 renegade art project in Vancouver that galvanized a small community, pitted residents against city government, and ultimately resulted in a new name for a chill park. 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...

Travel Trends: 17 Opportunities for the Travel...

July 6, 2021

The travel industry is constantly evolving, and the pace of change is now faster than ever before, as emerging technology and shifting demographics alter expectations and standard practices. This has been further exacerbated by COVID, which has disrupted almost all aspects of travel. Of course, there are real opportunities for companies that keep pace with The post Travel Trends: 17 Opportunities for the Travel Industry appeared first on Revfine.com.

Soteska Pekel (Hell Gorge) in Borovnica, Slovenia

July 5, 2021

The last thing you’d expect to see in a place named Hell are waterfalls, right? Well, Soteska Pekel (“Hell Gorge”) in Slovenia has five of them and is famous among the locals as a wonderful place to swim and relax during the summer. The gorge was created as a result of the sinking of the Ljubljana Marshes, which span 163 square kilometers south of the Slovenian capital city. Its steep dolomite walls show alternating bands of dark and light rock, which geologists...

Nevada State Route 722 in Austin, Nevada

July 5, 2021

In Nevada, US-50 is well-known as the “Loneliest Road.” What’s less well-known is that part of the original route of US-50 was itself bypassed in the late 1960s. The original alignment west of Austin, Nevada, ran farther south, crossing the northern Shoshone Mountains at Railroad Summit, and then dropping south in Smith Creek Valley to cross the Desatoya Mountains at Carroll Summit. It rejoins the present alignment near the famous Shoe Tree. This route was a bit shorter than...

Cowane's Hospital in Stirling, Scotland

July 5, 2021

Located a few yards from the fortress that overlooks the town of Stirling lies a building that was donated to this hamlet to ensure that the less fortunate had a place to be healed and looked after. This structure known as Cowane’s Hospital was named after the benefactor, John Cowane, who often found himself on the wrong side of the law. Perhaps it’s what led him to bequeath a small fortune to the construction of a building that would...

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