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Terreti Bazaar in Kolkata, India

January 1, 2021

Terreti Bazaar is a street market so tiny that you could easily walk right by without noticing. But for a few hours each morning, a handful of food vendors fire up steamers and serve a wide selection of Chinese and Indo-Chinese foods. Early risers will be rewarded with classics like steamed buns, lap cheong, and dumplings or fusion items, such as fish momos, fritters, and spicy, herb-crusted chicken kabobs. Vendors set up as early as 5:00 a.m. Over the...

RAF Tempsford Memorial Barn in Everton, England

January 1, 2021

One of the hundreds of airfields set up by the British Royal Air Force (RAF) during WWII, RAF Tempsford was established in 1940. Placed between an old Roman road and the railway to Peterborough, it was an unique facility: Named Gibraltar Farm and designed to resemble a working farm, it was set up to help facilitate infiltrations by Allied special agents into Nazi-occupied Europe. From RAF Tempsford, aircraft flew across the Channel to drop supplies to resistance movements, while Westland Lysander planes...

Meet the World's Least-Charismatic Orchid

December 31, 2020

The year 2020 hasn’t been gentle on anyone, and that includes Gastrodia agnicellus. For years, the orchid was simply minding its business, living and dying in the shade of Madagascar’s evergreens, with bamboo and ficus for neighbors. Flanked by moss and tucked under a damp blanket of leaf litter, its days are subdued until a flower opens beneath the rustling comforter. Platoons of ants clamber around, some to steal G. agnicellus’s nectar before continuing on their way. Scientists from...

Dawson City Museum in Dawson City, Yukon

December 31, 2020

Nestled along the banks of the Yukon River Dawson City stands as if frozen in time, preserving for the world the colorful legacy of the Klondike Gold Rush of the late 19th-century. This history is chronicled in the Dawson City Museum, a testament to life in Dawson and the rush to strike it big in the adjacent goldfields. The museum also doubles as the local courthouse, signage inside politely asks all those awaiting trial to not stray into the museum...

Mount Strachan Crash Site and Memorial ...

December 31, 2020

It’s truly remarkable that for over half a century, the remains of a tragic military jet crash still resides at this location despite the many visitors. Out of respect for the pilots that perished, the memorial reminds hikers “do not take anything.” The humid, short summers in Canada’s coastal rain forest, combined with the copious amounts of winter snow in the region are the perfect recipe for corrosion. The debris stands as a true testament to the resiliency of...

Cornelius Low House in Piscataway, New Jersey

December 31, 2020

Cornelius Low was a wealthy local merchant of Dutch descent. Around 1730, Low settled in the burgeoning port community of Raritan Landing, made up of roughly 100 residents and located across the Raritan River from New Brunswick. Goods from “The Landing,” flowed to New York City and New Brunswick. However, as much as the residents benefited from being so close to the Raritan River, they also suffered. In 1738, Cornelius Low’s home sustained severe flood damage. Low was through...

The Coronation Stone in London, England

December 31, 2020

The name “Kingston” gives some indication about the historical importance of this Thames-side town, located just southwest of the hustle and bustle of London. This small enclave has a unique royal connection. Towards the end of the 10th-century, the town sat near the border of the ancient kingdoms of Wessex and Mercia. In 925 CE, when Saxon king Athelstan united the kingdom and his coronation was held in “Cyninges tun.” During the ceremony, he sat on this very large...

Amazake-chaya Tea House in Hakone, Japan

December 31, 2020

The town of Hakone has attracted visitors for centuries, serving as the entrance to Tokyo for those making their way from the cities of Kyoto or Nara. Naturally, Hakone had many inns and teahouses, which thrived by catering to travelers. The Amazake-chaya Tea House is one such establishment, dating back more than 400 years. It has been damaged by fires and earthquakes several times over the course of its history, but each time the owners simply renovated and carried...

Blanco Renaissance Museum in Kecamatan Ubud,...

December 30, 2020

Dedicated to the life and work of Don Antonio Blanco, this complex is a mansion turned art gallery. In 2004, the building also became a bird sanctuary after it gained legal permission from the government to act as a conservation area. The Bali myna, also known as Rothschild’s mynah, Bali starling, or Bali mynah is a critically endangered bird with fewer than 100 adults existing in the wild. The sanctuary has helped increase the species’ population with a government-approved breeding...

Kailashnath Mahadev Statue in Sanga, Nepal

December 30, 2020

Completed in 2011 after seven years of construction, this 144-foot tall statue presenting the hand gesture (or mudra) offering blessings of peace stands approximately 12 miles east of Kathmandu. Nearly as tall as the Statue of Liberty (151 feet), Shiva is comprised of copper, zinc, concrete, and steel. It’s also the second tallest Hindu deity in the world. Accompanied by his telltale trident representing Shiva’s three functions as creator, preserver, and destroyer, as well as a damaru (drum), which...

Why an Alaskan Hospital Added Reindeer Pot...

December 30, 2020

You’re not going to find jello cups on the menu at Alaska Native Medical Center in Anchorage, Alaska. Instead, patients and visitors choose between reindeer pot pie, smoked hooligan, birch sourdough biscuits with fireweed jelly, herring roe, salmon-belly or seal soup, and Eskimo ice cream (made with animal fat, fish oil, and berries). Depending on the season, the hospital’s Executive Chef, Amy Foote, receives boxes of fiddlehead ferns and spruce tips trimmed in the late spring, coho salmon and...

Japanese Giant Spider Crab in New Brunswick,...

December 30, 2020

During the Meiji Restoration of the late 1800s, the Japanese government sent many students abroad to learn more about Western society to better modernize their home country. One of the first American schools to accept Japanese students was Rutgers University in New Jersey. Rutgers is rooted in the Dutch Reform Church and missionaries from this denomination in Japan encouraged young, ambitious students to apply to their school. As a gift of gratitude, the Japanese government sent Rutgers the exoskeleton...

Beyer Stadium in Rockford, Illinois

December 30, 2020

Philip K. Wrigley began the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL) in 1943, as many male athletes were fighting in World War II. The AAGPBL was at the forefront of women’s professional sports. The Rockford Peaches were one of the teams that operated during the first year of the league and played at Beyer Stadium, nicknamed the “Peach Orchard.” Although the league disbanded in 1954, Rockford won four league championships including the first “three-peat” in 1948, 1949, and 1950. Beyer...

Meet the Rats That Wear Protective Poison...

December 30, 2020

In a converted cattle shed in central Kenya, a mischief of rats is getting up to some. Bristling with energy, the salt-and-pepper animals—African crested rats, which look like skunks that tumbled around in a dryer—gnaw on the stalks and leaves of a poisonous plant. Raising the fur on their flanks, the rats use their tongues to lather their bodies with a mixture of spit and toxin. Recently, a team of researchers including scientists from the University of Utah and...

Can Nostalgia Save Oregon’s Beloved Psychedelic Theme...

December 29, 2020

Off a seemingly sleepy exit on Interstate 5 in Oregon sits a trippy theme park. Enchanted Forest, which has occupied 20 acres on a hill in the woods between Portland and Eugene for 49 years, is what Disneyland might look like if it had been designed by Ken Kesey and filled with 1960s-era sculptures and animatronic relics of fairy tale characters. It’s unpolished, charming, non-corporate. To some, it’s a beloved family attraction in an otherwise rural area; to others,...

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