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Salisbury Historic Swing-Bridge in Bainham, New Zealand

September 25, 2020

In 1887, after much lobbying by colonial settlers, a bridge was completed across the Aorere River, at the northern end of the South Island. From the start, the bridge was controversial because it was only a footbridge, with a maximum capacity of 220 pounds, even though it was supposed to allow further access for mining in the area. The original bridge was washed away in a severe flood in 1899. It took three years to construct its replacement, the...

The Rise and Fall of North Carolina’s...

September 25, 2020

In the summer of 1952, a young graduate student named Ray B. Browne left the University of California, Los Angeles, to conduct folkloric research in rural Alabama. Farmers there told Browne that a few decades earlier, you couldn’t stand outside your barn without hearing half a dozen farmers hollerin’ at each other across the fields. Browne, who later became famous for pioneering the study of pop culture at the university level, chronicled his trip in A Journal of American...

The Climate Isn’t Just Worsening Wildfires, It...

September 24, 2020

The majestic forests of the American West tower with iconic trees that hold decades, even centuries, of history in their heights and rings. But young, fledgling trees also tell significant stories about climate and the potential for forests to bounce back following wildfires, such as the ones that have afflicted the West with increasing intensity over the last several years. Now, that potential for renewal may be imperiled amid a warming climate and more frequent droughts and calamitous blazes....

The Saga of Midori Naka

September 24, 2020

Among the various items in the collection of Hiroshima University’s Research Institute for Radiation Biology and Medicine are two glass specimen jars, each maybe six inches tall, and each filled with a clear liquid and an amorphous brown blob that one might at first mistake for a crumpled grocery bag. They are all that remain of stage actress Midori Naka. Naka, known in Japan for her work in the shingeki drama style, was 36 years old when the atomic...

Real Meridian for the Academic Quarter in...

September 24, 2020

The Academic Quarter is a long-standing tradition in academia. Originally, it was created because church bells were the only means of keeping time. It was understood that students had 15 minutes to get to class after the clock chimed a certain hour. Today, it’s still maintained in many universities to give students some time to park and find their classrooms. A tradition like that requires a monument. In Lund, a plaque claims to mark the meridian that is exactly...

Iwakuni Shirohebi Shrine in Iwakuni, Japan

September 24, 2020

In Japan, the shirohebi (white snake) has been considered sacred since antiquity, long before the emergence of a hard rock band with a similar name. White snakes are believed to be messengers of Benzaiten (Saraswati in Hinduism), bringers of fortune, or water deities, depending on the region. The whiteness of such snakes, of course, comes from albinism, a relatively rare occurrence in nature. But not so in Iwakuni, a city at the southern end of Japan’s Honshū island. There, albino Japanese...

Pons Aemilius in Rome, Italy

September 24, 2020

Originally preceded by a wooden bridge, the Pons Aemilius was the first of many stone bridges constructed in Rome. It was designed between 179 BC and 151 BC. The bridge connected the central part of the city to the neighborhood of Trastevere, just south of Tiber Island. Initially, only the pylons were made out of bricks. However, in 142 BC the original wooden arches were replaced by stone. The bridge was repaired several times over the centuries, most notably...

Ed Young Station in Glen Rose, Texas

September 24, 2020

Glen Rose is a small town on the northern edge of the Texas Hill Country known to fossil hunters far and wide. But what most miss when visiting the area’s fossilized dinosaur tracks is the surprisingly beautiful and photogenic ruins of a gas station constructed from petrified wood. According to Dennis Moore, a historian and former mayor tempore of the town, the station acted as a speakeasy during Prohibition. Referred to as the Ed Young station in honor of its...

Truxton Canyon Training School in Valentine, Arizona

September 24, 2020

Alongside a preserved section of the historic Route 66 sits an abandoned, fenced off red brick building. Constructed in 1903, the building is what’s left of the Truxton Canyon Training School, a school that belonged to the Office of Indian Affairs and was designed to sever Native American children’s’ connections to their culture. Children lived in boarding rooms at the school, kept away from their families, and were spoken to exclusively in English. In addition to classes in reading,...

Temple Israel Museum in Leadville, Colorado

September 24, 2020

At 10,000 feet above sea level, Leadville, Colorado is one of America’s highest towns. Just off the city’s main commercial street sits the Temple Israel Museum. The building was designed by George E. King and constructed by Robert Murdock in 1884 to serve the town’s growing Jewish community. As the mining industry in the region declined, the Jewish population dwindled and the house of worship fell into disuse and disrepair. Over the years, the building served a variety of purposes...

How a Team of Calligraphers Brought Jane...

September 23, 2020

The sight of Jane Austen’s three-legged, walnut writing table in Chawton, England, sometimes moves visitors to tears. It’s easy to picture her in the brick house where she penned Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Emma, and more—arm draped over the table, hand racing across the page. The same is true in the city of Bath, where Austen lived from 1801 to 1806. There’s something “transporting” about seeing what Austen may have seen, or retracing the paths she may...

St. John in the Wilderness in...

September 23, 2020

This lovely old stone church dates back to 1833 and was originally created as a private chapel. In 1836, it was deeded to the Episcopalian Church. The church still remains in excellent condition today and sits on a mound surrounded by several heavy granite graves. What made the church so unique for the times was that white people and slaves were allowed to worship inside together. The very first wedding performed in the church was between two slaves. Many...

Found: The Wreck of a Ship That...

September 23, 2020

On September 19, 1861, a steamboat caught fire and sank in the Gulf of Mexico, two nautical miles from the Yucatán port town of Sisal. There were dozens of confirmed casualties, passengers and crew alike. But the full death toll will likely never be known, because the enslaved Indigenous Maya people held on the ship were never counted in the first place—they were simply listed as cargo. Archaeologists from Mexico’s Sub-Directorate of Underwater Archaeology (Subdirección de Arqueología Subacuática, or...

First Dunkin’ Donuts in Quincy, Massachusetts

September 23, 2020

Quincy, Massachusetts, is known as the “City of Presidents,” as it is the birthplace of two U.S. presidents: John Adams and his son John Quincy Adams. The city was also the birthplace of John Hancock, the first signer of the Declaration of Independence who was also the first governor of Massachusetts. Formerly part of Dorchester, Boston, and Braintree, the town was named after John Quincy (Abigail Adams’s grandfather, for whom John Quincy Adams is named) and it became a...

Wardrop’s Court Dragons in Edinburgh, Scotland

September 23, 2020

It’s only fitting that a city with a medieval castle would have several fabled creatures lurking about. Not far from this fortification’s drawbridge in Wardrop’s Court in the Lawnmarket resides a series of ornate blue dragons. These sets of ferocious beasts facing the Royal Mile are the work of J.S. Gibson, handcrafted during the latter part of the 19th-century. The two at the back facing the open cloister of Makars Court, home to the Writer’s Museum, are the work...

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