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Vaccination Could Easily Have Been Called 'Equination'

June 24, 2021

Though he lived and worked in the 18th and 19th centuries, the English physician Edward Jenner might have felt right at home in the culture war currently being fought over COVID-19 vaccines. Sometimes called the “Father of Immunology,” Jenner complained in harsh terms about those who opposed his theories, calling them “those little minded Persons who think everything impossible which does not come within the narrow sphere of their own comprehension.” That particular jab comes from an 1802 letter...

Podcast: Beechey Island Graves Part 2

June 24, 2021

Listen and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. In this episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, we finish our two-part series as we follow two groups of Arctic adventurers, separated by more than 170 years, and witness the disasters that befell them all. 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...

TripAdvisor Plus: What Are the Advantages for...

June 24, 2021

TripAdvisor has recently launched a new service called TripAdvisor Plus, which operates on a subscription model, allowing customers to pay an annual membership fee in return for various member-only benefits, such as discounts on hotel rooms and exclusive perks. Additionally, the service now allows direct participation from hotels too. In this article, you will learn The post TripAdvisor Plus: What Are the Advantages for Hotels? appeared first on Revfine.com.

The Tea Sommelier Seeking Out China's Rarest...

June 23, 2021

Shunan Teng’s job can be precarious, since she spends a lot of her time hiking the rocky slopes of southern China. On one hike, she gingerly hoists herself into the branches of a camellia sinensis tree in order to inspect the baby leaves. But it’s all in a day’s work for Teng, an avid tea sommelier and entrepreneur. Teng is on a mission to curate a collection of China’s oldest and most historically acclaimed teas. While the densely packed...

What’s Up With Alaska’s Wild, Wondrous, ‘Warm-Blooded’...

June 23, 2021

“People don’t come to Denali and other parks in Alaska to look at bumblebees, but they should,” says Jessica Rykken, entomologist for Denali National Park and Preserve. The “Last Frontier” state may be known for supersized wildlife, from bears to moose, but on a smaller scale, the diversity of bumblebees (or bumble bees, depending on whom you ask) there is unusually high, and powers entire ecosystems. “Bringing in that next generation of plants to provide habitat for caribou or...

Allan Hills in Antarctica

June 23, 2021

On December 27, 1984, a meteorite was found in the ice field near Allan Hills, a rocky outcrop that protrudes from the blue ice in Victoria Land, East Antarctica. Cosmo-chemical analyses back in the lab revealed a Martian origin. Years later, this meteorite, known as ALH84001, gained popularity as an article published in the journal Science reported structures in the rock and interpreted them as fossilized lifeforms, which, if true, would be the first definitive sign of extraterrestrial life. A media...

Times Square Station Fake Tiles in New...

June 23, 2021

As if ripped from the draft of a lost National Treasure sequel, Times Square Station has a number of fake subway tiles that hide a more sinister design. In August 2017, in the wake of a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, New York City had a reckoning with the Confederate memorials scattered across the city. These vinyl stickers printed with a mosaic design were slapped onto the walls of Times Square Station to cover actual tile designs that closely...

Harmon Museum in Lebanon, Ohio

June 23, 2021

The Harmon Museum, also sometimes referred to as the Lebanon Museum, is housed in historic Harmon Hall. Built in 1913 as a recreational facility by the real estate mogul and philanthropist William Elmer Harmon, Harmon Hall was donated to the City of Lebanon. Harmon was born and raised in Lebanon and complained there was no place to play when he was a child. He gave the city Harmon Hall, Harmon Park (he established more than 120 across the country), Harmon Golf Course, and...

Fred's Flying Circus in Grand Island, Nebraska

June 23, 2021

Shortly after Fred Schritt retired from building and racing custom motorcycles, he came across an old vehicle that reminded him of “Mater” from the movie, Cars. He fixed the vehicle up in his own style and renamed it “the Peppermint Kid,” and put it on a post outside the body shop he ran in Grand Island, Nebraska. A Volkswagen-turned-Fokker-Triplane followed, with the Red Baron and Snoopy trying to get each other in their sights. Then another car and another...

Braddock Road Cannon in Alexandria, Virginia

June 23, 2021

Believed to have been abandoned by British General Edward Braddock in 1755 during the French and Indian War, this cannon was placed here in 1915 at the intersection of two rural dirt roads at what is now the intersection of Braddock and Russell Roads. Braddock was commander-in-chief of the 13 colonies during this conflict. His forces were defeated during a mission to capture Fort Duquesne from the French in what is now Pittsburgh. Braddock died during the Battle of...

Free Expression Tunnel in Raleigh, North Carolina

June 23, 2021

Connecting North Carolina State University’s north and central campuses is a local landmark dedicated to art and expression. In November 1967, the student council allowed students to paint art and messages in one of the pedestrian tunnels running under the train tracks that divide the campus. This would come to be known as the Free Expression Tunnel by students. Students and others are constantly repainting the tunnel and retaining walls at the exit with art, memorials, political slogans, and...

Passy Cemetery in Paris, France

June 23, 2021

Opened in 1820, Passy Cemetery is named after what was then a local village, and covers a little more than four acres. While it may be small, Passy has some of the city’s finest funerary sculptures and is also the final resting place of several of the city’s more well-known and interesting characters. In fact, besides the Big Three of Montparnasse, Montmartre, and Pere-Lachaise, Passy is arguably the most interesting cemetery in Paris and within a short distance from...

Broulee Canoe Tree in Broulee, Australia

June 23, 2021

This rare example of an Aboriginal scarred tree is one of the most accessible in eastern Australia. On the trunk of the redgum tree is an oval-shaped scar, left when an enormous sheet of bark was removed to make a canoe. There are indications that the bark was cut using a stone ax. The height of the cutting shows that one man stood on the shoulders of another to take the bark from the best position. Believed to be around...

My Pandemic-Era Quest to Solve the Mystery...

June 23, 2021

Lincoln, Massachusetts, has a long history with horses. By the last quarter of the 19th century, the community, roughly 20 miles northwest of Boston, was home to 94 farms. Growers cultivated more than 2,540 acres of crops, according to the local historical society, and into the 20th century, horses and ponies helped them to do it. Dolly enabled Nicholas Cotoni and his quartet of brothers to coax vegetables from 12 acres they had planted. Chubb, regal and white, helped...

Army Ant Guests Exhibit in Mansfield, Connecticut

June 23, 2021

In the early 1960s, biologists Carl and Marian Rettenmeyer began a decades-long study of army ant colonies in Central America. One major focus of their work was the abundance of mites, lice, beetles, and other invertebrates that live symbiotically with the ants, either in their nests or on the bodies of the insects themselves. The Rettenmeyers discovered many new and fascinating species, such as a mite that takes the place of an ant’s foot and feeds on its blood,...

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