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Seneca Schoolhouse in Poolesville, Maryland

March 11, 2021

In 1865, an enterprising local farmer, Upton Darby, began raising funds to build a schoolhouse for the children of local farmers, which inspired neighbors to pitch in with cash and labor to bring his vision to life. This beautiful one-room schoolhouse was up and running the following year, using distinctive red sandstone from nearby Seneca Quarry. The school was run by the community for its first 11 years and was taken over by the Montgomery County Public School (MCPS)...

Victorian Seaside Shelters in Brighton and Hove,...

March 11, 2021

These small, Small strange-looking buildings can be found along the seafront of Brighton & Hove. These little shelters actually date back to the Victorian era. There are seven, elegant matching cast iron shelters along the seafront. They have provided residents and tourists with a place to rest and relax for many years. What most people don’t know is that these shelters were also used by royalty. King Edward VII often stayed at Kings Gardens in Hove, with his wife...

The Giant Squid of Thimble Tickle ...

March 11, 2021

The Canadian fishing village of Glover’s Harbour, Newfoundland (formerly known as Thimble Tickle) claims to be the “Home of the Giant Squid.” It earned this distinction in 1878, when a living giant squid (Architeuthis dux) was discovered stranded offshore. According to contemporary documents, on the morning of November 2, 1878, Stephen Sherring, a local fisherman, and two companions were out fishing when they noticed a large, red, tangled object semi-submerged in the surf near the shore. Believing it to be...

Eat Like England’s First Non-Royal Ruler With...

March 10, 2021

Since January, the Cromwell Museum in Huntingdon, England, has been selling copies of one of the strangest cookbooks ever published. That’s according to Stuart Orme, the museum’s curator, who’s also written the new introduction to The Court and Kitchen of Elizabeth, Commonly Called Joan Cromwell, the Wife of the Late Usurper. This is no Joy of Cooking. Instead, the book begins with what Orme calls “a very ranty essay” against Oliver Cromwell and his wife, Elizabeth. Cromwell, as the...

Is This the End of Italy's Iconic...

March 10, 2021

On a hot, sunny morning in June 2006, Reginald Van de Velde was walking in the center of Sorrento, the famous Italian town on the Gulf of Naples, when something struck him. “I was walking on a footbridge to get back to my car,” says the Belgian photographer, “and noticed something unusual under the bridge.” Intrigued, Van de Velde leaned out over the bridge’s protective fence. “Then I saw it, this haunting ruin completely covered in vegetation.” Indeed, about...

The Iceberg Trackers Keeping an Eye on...

March 10, 2021

When icebergs make news, it is generally due to something rare and dramatic: a chunk twice the size of New York City, another threatening the ecosystem of an entire island, or, of course, Titanic. But each day human eyes are watching bergs of many shapes and sizes, mapping their movements at both ends of the Earth and helping ships steer clear of these icy hazards. Call them iceberg trackers. Or iceberg-ologists. Or ice scientists, perhaps. They peer through clouds...

Grave of Johnny Appleseed in Fort Wayne,...

March 10, 2021

The late 18th century was an era of rapid expansion in the American West, especially the areas known now as Ohio and Indiana. In this land, John Chapman, better known as Johnny Appleseed, took it upon himself to travel the countryside, spreading the Gospel and planting orchard after orchard of apple trees. The apple crops were vital to pioneers and settlers, who made cider to drink, and vinegar for medicinal use. Chapman was a colorful, memorable character. He was...

Kinstone in Fountain City, Wisconsin

March 10, 2021

This “modern megalithic garden” has three stone circles, a seven-circuit classic labyrinth, dolmen, dry-stacked stone sculpture, many boulders and standing stones as well as natural buildings and restored prairie. Visitors can walk in a self-guided manner along mown grass paths and there are signs at many of the features explaining a bit about each one. Kinstone is spread across 30 acres filled with stone sculptures, natural buildings, native prairie, and views of the Mississippi River. The largest stone brought...

Palmatis Ruins in Onogur, Bulgaria

March 10, 2021

The small village of Onogur, Bulgaria stands on land that, some 14 centuries ago, was home to a large and well-fortified city. Though there seems to be nothing left of it to this day, the strategic nature of the location makes it clear how convenient it would have been for a fortress. The site is located on a rocky peninsula, a flat piece of land spanning about 220 acres and protected from three sides with steep slope that run...

Burg Lahneck in Lahnstein, Germany

March 10, 2021

From its original construction in 1226, all the way up through the 20th century, Burg Lahneck has experienced many notable events that have led to it’s intriguing tale including several wars, political unrest, the tragic death of a young noble. The castle even inspired the German poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The castle was built at the confluence of the Lahn and Rhine rivers by Siegfried III of Eppstein in order to protect the town of Oberlahnstein and a nearby...

Remembering America's Golden Age of Hot Sodas

March 10, 2021

In the classic American play Our Town, Emily Webb and George Gibbs stop at Mr. Morgan’s drug store. There, at the soda fountain that serves as the center of the social life in Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire, young love blossoms over strawberry ice-cream sodas: Emily and George realize they are “fond of” each other and always will be. The play is set in 1901 and debuted in 1938, when soda fountains had become wildly popular. They were in drug...

'Comic Fountain' in Frankfurt (Oder), Germany

March 10, 2021

The City of Frankfurt Oder is often overlooked and forgotten, especially in light of sharing its namesake with the much larger and internationally well-known Frankfurt to the west. However, this abstract fountain, which also serves as a working clock, does a good job of making sure visitors leave the city with a memory. Known as the “Comic Fountain” or “Comic Brunnen,” the main feature of this fountain is the gigantic figure of a vaguely humanoid shape, painted in bright,...

Old Crow Wing in Brainerd, Minnesota

March 10, 2021

At Crow Wing State Park, visitors can enjoy hiking, snowshoeing, and skiing on the peaceful forested trails at the confluence of the Crow Wing River and Mississippi River. This intersection once provided more than natural beauty, the region was once home to French and Ojibwe residents who constructed a thriving trading town in 1823. At its peak, the town contained around 700 residents, half of whom were Ojibwe and half of whom were European settlers. In 1867, ten Ojibwe...

Southwest Iceland Is Shaking

March 9, 2021

This story was originally published in The Conversation and appears here under a Creative Commons license. More than 17,000 earthquakes have been recorded in the southwest of Iceland, in the Reykjanes Peninsula, in a little over a week. People living in the area have been advised to be extra careful due to dangers of landslides and rockfall. Many of the larger earthquakes have even been felt in Iceland’s capital city, Reykjavík—where over half of the population lives—which lies only...

This Project Maps 25 Years of New...

March 9, 2021

When Jen Jack Gieseking started researching his book on queer nightlife in New York, he learned that one of the city’s hottest lesbian watering holes was not a bar at all. Sure, participants had fond memories of dancing and flirting at historically lesbian bars. But if the queer women and transgender and nonbinary people in Gieseking’s focus groups really wanted to catch up on the latest gossip, there was only one place to go: the Park Slope Food Co-op,...

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