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First Lot Sold At Auction Marker in...

June 28, 2021

Prior to the founding of Alexandria, there were two primary landowners in the area—Dame Margaret Brent who had obtained a patent in 1654 for a 700-acre plot, and English ship captain Robert Howson, who had received an overlapping grant from Virginia Governor William Berkeley in 1669. Within a month, Howson sold his land to Scottish merchant John Alexander. By the 1700s, tobacco plantations had started popping up along the Potomac. Hugh West constructed a tobacco warehouse at what is...

Presa El Gasco in Madrid, Spain

June 28, 2021

This impressive 173 foot (53 meters) tall structure is the most significant and intriguing remnant of an 18th-century plan gone wrong. Presa El Gasco was designed to be the starting point for a waterway extending well over 400 miles (771 kilometers), and dropping over 2,000 feet to Lisbon. A partial collapse and financial problems put a stop to the project years after it was clear no significant shipping could have been supported with the available water supply. Today, the...

Herľany Geyser in Herľany, Slovakia

June 28, 2021

Near the city of Košice the cold geyser of Her’lany can be seen erupting nearly every day. An impressive 30-meter high fountain in the middle of a green garden. The geyser is maintained mostly through rainwater infiltration and the circulation of underground water. The geyser has existed for a little more than a century. The first eruption occurred in 1870, while a well was being dug in Her’lany. When the well reached a depth of 330 meters, water erupted for...

Goldbug Hot Springs in Salmon, Idaho

June 28, 2021

Roughly a 30-minute drive from the small Idaho town of Salmon, the trailhead to this hot spring can be found down a residential dirt road with several parking spots. The trailhead has a bathroom as well. The ascent to the hot springs requires a two-mile jaunt, which can be a bit exhausting depending on your fitness level. Steep switchbacks kick off the hike, then level off comfortably for the middle of the hike. The last portion of the climb...

The Thorny Ethics of Displaying Egyptian Mummies...

June 28, 2021

This story was originally published in Undark and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In 1823, the chief surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital, John Warren, prepared to autopsy a 2,500-year-old corpse. Warren figured examining the Egyptian mummy—a gift from a patron that had been placed in the hospital’s surgical ward to collect quarters from gawkers—would advance knowledge of the ancients. He carefully began cutting through the old linen, and then stopped. He had exposed a blackened...

Freedom House Museum in Alexandria, Virginia

June 28, 2021

Originally built as a private residence by Brigadier General Robert Young of the Washington D.C. militia, the property was purchased in 1828 by Isaac Franklin and John Armfield when Young’s finances took a bad turn and he was forced to sell. The two men turned the home into a prison, adding an extension with high walls, interior chambers, and other features designed to hold enslaved people. The property on Duke Street grew to become the largest trading firm of...

Seahorse World in Beauty Point, Australia

June 28, 2021

Of the 50 known species of seahorses in the world, 17 are endemic to Australia. They’re some of the most beautiful and mysterious variations, from the enchanting zebra seahorse that lives in the coral reefs of northern Australia to the majestic leafy seadragon that hides in the seagrass along the southern coast. Seahorse World began as a research project at the University of Tasmania into the life cycle of the Tasmanian pot-bellied seahorse. The project blossomed into a breeding farm...

Why Does the Yukon Delta Always Look...

June 28, 2021

A slice of brain, stained for scrutiny under the microscope. The cross-section of a head of broccoli, run through a funky filter. Or is what you see a dynamic, subarctic environment that researchers love to study, especially when it is rendered in a carnival of unnatural colors? The Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, in southwestern Alaska, is one of the world’s largest deltas. The state’s two biggest rivers empty separately into the Bering Sea here, and the landscape between them is pocked...

Podcast: The Danse Macabre

June 28, 2021

Listen and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. In this episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, we meet Caitlin Doughty, from “Ask a Mortician,” who gives us a dance lesson in the two-step we were all born to do. Our podcast is an audio guide to the world’s wondrous, awe-inspiring, strange people and places. In under 15 minutes, we’ll take you to an incredible site, and along the way you’ll meet some fascinating people...

The Power of Lean Revenue Management; Sophisticated...

June 28, 2021

The global pandemic has sped up a trend in revenue operations (RevOps) throughout the business world. Forrester recently published a study that found that many companies are moving towards more centralized RevOps. They’ve understood that revenue is more than an outcome and instead of a result of a business process where commercial teams come together The post The Power of Lean Revenue Management; Sophisticated But Not Complex appeared first on Revfine.com.

How can Hotel Chatbots contribute to Contactless...

June 28, 2021

Question for Our Hotel Marketing Expert Panel How can hotel chatbots best contribute to a contactless / low-touch guest experience? Our Marketing Expert Panel Dr. Betsy Stringam-Bender – Professor of Hotels & Resorts, New Mexico State University Tamie Matthews – Revenue, Sales & Marketing Consultant, RevenYou Andrew Kavanagh The post How can Hotel Chatbots contribute to Contactless Guest Experiences? appeared first on Revfine.com.

It Turns Out You Can Detect an...

June 25, 2021

On July 4, 2019, as America celebrated its independence with explosions in the sky, the ground around the California town of Ridgecrest decided to join the party: A magnitude-6.4 quake rocked the region. Two days later, a magnitude-7.1 temblor topped it, and tens of thousands of aftershocks followed in the ensuing weeks. California, no stranger to shakes, has a dense network of ground-based seismometers—and that summer they were busy. At the same time, a small band of scientists, also...

Petroglyph National Monument in Albuquerque, New Mexico

June 25, 2021

Extending along 17 miles of volcanic basalt escarpment in central New Mexico are some 24,000 petroglyphs. Most date back to 1300–1600, a time when the Ancestral Puebloans, the ancestors of today’s Pueblo peoples, were building adobe villages along the Rio Grande River. The petroglyphs depict stylized human figures, animals, stars, spirals, geometric shapes, and a bewildering number of abstract figures. Although not always decipherable, undoubtedly reflect the aspects of Ancestral Puebloan social, religious, and cultural life and heritage. The images...

The Big Easel in Emerald, Australia

June 25, 2021

Canadian artist and educator Cameron Cross was working in Altona, Canada in the late 1990s when he had a vision: to replicate Vincent Van Gogh’s seven Sunflowers paintings on a massive scale in different parts of the world. Cross selected seven sites for his Big Easel Project, based on either their sunflower agriculture or connection to the Dutch artist. So far, three of the paintings in the series have been realized. Cross began right there in Altona, Sunflower Capital of...

The Hidden Village of Galboly in Carnlough,...

June 25, 2021

Tucked into the Antrim coast hills at Garron Point near the historic village of Carnlough is a hidden gem where visitors can explore stone-walled buildings, walk along the perimeter walls, study old thatched cottages, and even take in majestic views above the village along the Garron Plateau. The village of Galboly, meaning “the English dairy place” was once a thriving rural village where people lived off the land and sea. Many of the residents worked on the nearby Garron...

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