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Faro della Vittoria (Victory Lighthouse) in Trieste,...

October 1, 2020

Faro della Vittoria (Victory Lighthouse) is a lighthouse on Gretta hill near Trieste, in Italy. With a height of 223 feet (68 meters), it’s one of the tallest lighthouses in the world. It was constructed between 1923 and 1927 to commemorate those who died at sea during World War I. The location was chosen because of the importance of Trieste, acquired by Italy after the war. The lighthouse was designed specifically to be taller than the Berlin Victory Column,...

Slave Market Memorial in Zanzibar, Tanzania

October 1, 2020

In 1873 the world’s last open slave market closed. The last vestige of this horrific institution was located in Stone Town, Zanzibar. Slaves were transported to Zanzibar via overcrowded dhows. With little food, rampant disease, and appalling conditions, not all slaves made it to Zanzibar. Those who didn’t were thrown overboard. For those that did make it, another ordeal awaited, as they were sold at this site and then were likely shipped off to various Arab countries. Zanzibar was...

Pleasley Pit in Pleasley, England

October 1, 2020

Pleasley Pit is a former coal mine at Pleasley in Derbyshire, England. It was originally sunk during the 1870s. This remarkable site was saved from dereliction by a team of dedicated volunteers, who preserved and restored the two magnificent steam winding engines famous to the site. They were once used to move both coal and miners up and down the two shafts. One of these enormous machines was constructed in 1904, the other in 1922. Mining operations ceased in...

Did Early Humans Invent Hot Pot in...

September 30, 2020

You’d be hard-pressed to find a cradle as old and dusty as Olduvai Gorge. Located in northern Tanzania, the arid archaeological sites at Olduvai have disgorged some of the earliest hominin fossils, from our ancient ancestors Homo habilis and Homo erectus all the way up to Homo sapiens, or modern humans. The gorge has also given up some of the earliest-known tools, particularly Acheulean stone handaxes that scientists consider a formative step in human development. But Olduvai Gorge wasn’t...

What Will Mexico City Do With 2,000...

September 30, 2020

For the past year, the construction site of a new airport in Mexico City has been the talk of the mammoth world. Heaps of fossils started turning up there in October 2019. “There are hundreds,” archaeologist Pedro Sanchez Nava told Phys.org. “There are too many.” Scientists now sit alongside backhoe operators as they break new ground, monitoring the soil of the ancient lake bed for molars, ribs, and tusks. While excavation is ongoing, the 2,000 bones unearthed thus far...

Leith Mural in Edinburgh, Scotland

September 30, 2020

The year 2020 marked the 100 year anniversary of a piece of a city ordinance that saw the incorporation of several outlying suburbs being assimilated into the confines of Scotland‘s capital. These separate municipalities included: Liberton, Colinton, Corstorphine, and Cramond. However, Leith, a residential neighborhood to the north and the area’s thriving port district, voted on a referendum to remain an independent entity. The people of Leith voted 26,810 to 4,340 against the merger. Unfortunately, Leith lost the battle...

Sơn Mỹ Memorial in Quảng Ngãi, Vietnam

September 30, 2020

March 16, 1968, will forever be remembered as “the most shocking episode of the Vietnam War.” On that day, a battalion of the United States Army deliberately engaged in the mass murder of unarmed civilians. This event became known as the My Lai Massacre. The official purpose of this operation was to kill Viet Cong soldiers who were supposedly hiding in the area. Following on the orders of Captain Ernest Medina, soldiers entered the village of Sơn Mỹ and started...

‘Saint Bartholomew Flayed’ in Milan, Italy

September 30, 2020

Saint Bartholomew was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus Christ. After the Ascension, it’s said the saint traveled to the east, and then onto Greater Armenia. According to traditional hagiography, he was flayed and beheaded there for converting the king to Christianity. Other accounts attest that after his flaying, Bartholomew was crucified. Due to this grisly tale, Saint Bartholomew is often depicted alongside his flayed skin (or severed head) in art, including “The Last Judgment” by Michelangelo. Sixteenth-century...

Paddy the Pigeon Plaque in Carnlough, Northern...

September 30, 2020

Paddy the Pigeon was raised as a carrier pigeon by Andrew Hughes of Carnlough village in County Antrim. During World War II, thousands of trained messenger pigeons were enlisted by the Royal Air Force (RAF) to help military service personnel by carrying secret coded messages between the Allies from the war front back home to Britain. Paddy the Pigeon was trained at the air force’s Hurn Base, where the officers became impressed with his abilities during Air-Sea rescue operations. Paddy was later...

Sese Grande in Pantelleria, Italy

September 30, 2020

Just a hundred meters off Pantelleria’s main road, and just under ten minutes south from the island’s main settlement, a round stone mausoleum represents the most impressive evidence of an ancient civilization. These structures were crafted by a group that inhabited the island 5,000 years ago. The so-called Sese Grande, (sese is a local island term for a pile of rocks) is an impressive funerary monument reaching almost 20 feet (six meters) high. The 12 cells inside the structure can...

Franklin Street Bridge Monument in East Peoria,...

September 30, 2020

Steel remnants of the former Franklin Street Bridge between Peoria and East Peoria, Illinois, now make up a unique sculpture along the banks of the Illinois River. The monument stands near the spot where the steel truss and bascule (drawbridge) structure spanned the river for eight decades. The Franklin Street Bridge was built in 1911, after an earlier concrete span collapsed into the river soon after it was opened. Engineers said the structure failed when the concrete piers were...

How a Secret Map Brought Down a...

September 29, 2020

On a dark night early in the 17th century, a group of men gathered atop the seaside cliffs outside of Castlehaven, a small village on the southwestern coast of Ireland. The flickering light from their lanterns revealed a hidden stairway cut directly into the rock, which they carefully descended down to the sea. Placing their lanterns into two small niches that had also been hollowed out of the rock, the men waited. From the darkness, a ship slowly emerged...

A North Carolina Artist’s Search for a...

September 29, 2020

Artist Freeman Vines was captivated for a long time with an unforgettable sound he once heard from a gospel musician’s guitar. At his home near a tobacco field in the small rural town of Fountain, North Carolina, Vines then spent over 50 years hand-carving guitars out of found wood, in a relentless search for that special tone. Despite decades of creating guitars, he never found that sound again. But he found other revelations. In the new book Hanging Tree...

The Food Stylist Who Creates Hollywood’s Unreal...

September 29, 2020

Once, for a job, Janice Poon had to consider how she would go about cooking a human leg. Poon is the food stylist you call when you need fantastical food on film, for scenes ranging from gory to gourmet. Though, sometimes, it’s both simultaneously. In one episode of the television series Hannibal, Dr. Hannibal Lecter, fiction’s most epicurean cannibal, methodically slices a victim’s leg with a bandsaw to the soaring tunes of Beethoven’s Ninth, dusts it with flour, and...

Abandoned Leper Colony of Arico in Abades,...

September 29, 2020

For those driving on the Autopista del Sur on the island of Tenerife, a huge cross can be spotted in the distance near the ocean. Those who venture closer will realize that the cross belongs to a skeleton of a church surrounded by decrepit buildings in an unnamed and abandoned village by the Atlantic Ocean. An eerie and macabre vibe can be felt as the ghost town extends beyond the empty church, with structures where broken beds, bathrooms, and ceramic tiles mingle...

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