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Devil’s Gate (Wyoming) in Alcova, Wyoming

December 29, 2020

The Devil’s Gate is a rock formation located in Natrona County. Crafted by the Sweetwater River, the limestone formation is a narrow passage stretching 1,500 feet from end to end As a noticeable feature of the frontier, Devil’s Gate served as a landmark for fur traders and the westward emigrant trails of the 1800s. The Oregon, Mormon, and California Trails all came through the area. Although the canyon was too narrow for most wagons to pass through, pioneers would...

St. Canute's Cathedral in Odense, Denmark

December 29, 2020

St. Canute’s Cathedral is a Gothic, red brick building constructed in the 1300s. The church is named after Danish King Canute IV, who was murdered at this location. He ruled Denmark from 1080 to 1086 and was later canonized. According to legend, Canute was murdered in the cathedral when he tried to force the Jutland peasants to form a war party and attack England. With him was his brother, Benedict, and 17 hirdmen (followers). They were killed in front of...

'Sam' in Rīga, Latvia

December 29, 2020

This sculpture is from a series entitled “First Crew” by Russian artist Denis Prasolov. The monkey depicted in the sculpture is known as “Sam” and is a tribute to the animals who died during spaceflight survival tests. The former Soviet Union used a variety of animals for space missions during 195os and 1960s. During this period, it’s believed 42 animal cosmonauts were rocketed into the stratosphere. Practically all died during these tests either from fear and stress, or asphyxiation. ...

Merchiston Tower in Edinburgh, Scotland

December 29, 2020

Scotland is home to between 2,000 and 4,000 castles. The vast discrepancy in the margins is due to the fact that some are just crumbling ruins, while others make the assertion to sound more grandiose than they are in reality. Still, a few thousand are either popular tourist attractions or stately homes passed down through the generations. The city of Edinburgh lays claim to an impressive number of nearly a dozen of these legitimate fortresses. The vast majority of...

2020 Might Be a Year Best Looked...

December 29, 2020

In photography, as in life, sometimes a new perspective makes all the difference, and can make the mundane seem more special. Since photography was first introduced in the 19th century (the earliest surviving photograph was taken with a camera obscura in 1827 by Nicéphore Niépce in France), there have been daring and adventurous photographers who took this idea to heart and took to the air for a new point of view. The first successful aerial photograph (which is now...

Wilkes Street Tunnel in Alexandria, Virginia

December 29, 2020

The Old Town section of Alexandria, Virginia is packed with significant sites and artifacts, as echoes of the past dot the streets of this historical section. One intriguing vestige of this city’s past often overlooked is nestled in a suburban tract, several blocks removed from the hustle and bustle of King Street. At the corner of Wilkes Street and Royal Street is the entrance to a former railroad tunnel that belonged to Orange & Alexandria Railroad completed in 1856. It...

Onöhsagwë:de’ Cultural Center in Salamanca, New York

December 29, 2020

Nestled between the Alleghany River and Alleghany State Park in Western New York’s Southern Tier, is a sprawling museum dedicated to the Seneca-Iroquois Nation. Named after a prominent Seneca singer and teacher, the 33,000 square foot Onöhsagwë:de’ Cultural Center opened in 2018. The Seneca Nation, or more appropriately Onödowáʼga (“Great Hill People”), is one of six nations comprising the Iroquois Confederacy, which includes the Oneida, Mohawk, Cayuga, Onondaga, and Tuscarora tribes. The Senecas have a rich culture and complex...

These Coded Wine Glasses Were Used for...

December 28, 2020

This glass has a secret. It’s encoded in the images inscribed around the bowl: a blazing star, an oak leaf, a rose blossom, and two delicate buds sprouting from a thorny stem. They may seem like mere decoration, but to the right eyes, they were a message, and a dangerous one at that. The original owners of this glass must have been careful who they let see it. In England, circa 1745, toasting with it could constitute treason. Taken...

The Astonishing Underwater Landscapes Sketched Inside a...

December 28, 2020

This story originally appeared on The Public Domain Review, and is reproduced here under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license. In the late 1860s, Jules Verne’s fictional Captain Nemo cruised the ocean deep, discovering new underwater worlds and creatures. In the same decade, the non-fictional Eugen von Ransonnet-Villez pursued his fascination with zoology by developing the technology to produce the first underwater pictures: seascapes drawn as he sat beneath the waves in his diving bell. Ransonnet-Villez was born in...

Dacha Kvitko in Khostinskiy, Russia

December 28, 2020

This majestic and beautiful palace stands on a cliff overlooking the Black Sea in Sochi. It originally belonged to a wealthy tsarist colonel, Andrey Valerianovich Kvitko. He had married an Italian woman, whose wealthy family had two big mansions in Italy. Together they moved to a prestigious Khosta area in Sochi, where Kvitko built the family a new mansion. It was completed in 1916, and said to be an exact copy of one of his wife’s family mansions, only...

Site of the Destroyed Ursuline Convent in...

December 28, 2020

In the early 1800s, Boston’s Catholic leadership decided to build a convent on the Ploughed Hill of Charlestown (now Somerville). Starting in 1820, Ursuline sisters ran the convent and its school for girls on the summit, which they renamed Mount Benedict. In a predominantly Protestant environment, rumors started about mysterious and devious activities in the convent, including forced conversions, kidnapping, and torture. Incited by preachers, a mob of few dozen assembled on August 11, 1834, and set the convent on...

Austrian Archaeological Institute at Athens in Athens,...

December 28, 2020

Otto Benndorf was born in 1838 in the Principality of the Reuss Elder Line. As a youth he showed much interest in archaeology and eventually decided to pursue it in his higher education. He held a variety of academic positions over the years and participated in numerous archaeological expeditions in Greece, including in Samothrace (1875), Lycia (1881–82), and Ephesus (1895). In 1896 he began efforts to open a facility in Athens to oversee Austrian-run archaeological projects in Greece. Within...

St. James Hotel in Cimarron, New Mexico

December 28, 2020

Known as the Lambert Inn when it was built in 1872, the St. James Hotel became famous during its Wild West days, when such iconic and notorious figures as Wyatt Earp, Jesse James, Buffalo Bill, and Black Jack Ketchum were patrons. Located on the historic Sante Fe Trail, which Americans traversed as they traveled west, into land they considered a frontier, it was a rare spot for them to get a drink, buy supplies, or enjoy a bath and a warm bed. ...

Original Pizza Hut in Wichita, Kansas

December 28, 2020

The Wichita State University campus is home to a small brick building. It might not look like much but it’s the structure where two brothers, Dan and Frank Carney, started one of the most popular pizza chains in the world. The first thing you might notice when looking at the original Pizza Hut is that it bears no resemblance to the chain’s now-classic red, pavilion-style roof. That’s because this building predates the debut of Pizza Hut’s iconic architecture in the...

The Baverstock Arms in Basingstoke, England

December 25, 2020

Like so many pubs across the United Kingdom, the Baverstock Arms is surrounded by history. Unlike most historic inns, however, this is not the location of a significant event, nor is it haunted or the subject of traditional tales. This Basingstoke pub is surrounded by history in a far more literal sense: It operates from within an actual museum. Opened in 2000, the Milestones Living History Museum recreates a typical Hampshire town frozen in time between the Victorian and...

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