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How a King’s Feast of Sturgeon Sank...

September 23, 2020

More than five centuries ago, a fish in a barrel sank to a watery grave at the bottom of the Baltic Sea. The unfortunate aquatic creature was a sturgeon brought aboard Gribshunden, the 115-foot flagship of King Hans of Denmark, and it was as long as a person is tall. Archaeologists retrieved the 524-year-old animal during underwater excavations in August 2019, along with a number of other remarkable items: coins featuring the face of King Hans, an alderwood tankard...

Castle Chichester Tower in Whitehead, Northern Ireland

September 23, 2020

The Castle Chichester in Whitehead was constructed around 1604 for an English Soldier known as Sir Moyses Hill. It was built as a fortification to help protect plantation settlers from the Native Irish and other marauders who wished to stake their claim over the Whitehead area. The Castle was crafted mainly from basalt boulders and repurposed brick stone. The structure stood three-stories high and provided a commanding view of the surrounding Belfast Lough and inland area. Hill originally came to...

Norwich Keyboard in Cowley, England

September 23, 2020

On the corner between Princes Street and Elm Hill, visitors will walk past a beautiful old church and a strange imprint on the ground that resembles a keyboard. The imprint has been at this location for several decades. Some believe it’s a computer keyboard, others swear it’s an 18th-century print plate from a monastery. The Norwich keyboard is actually an imprint of an old Amstrad PC. The most popular urban myth surrounding its creation is that a keyboard fell...

Inside the Arctic Greenhouses Where the Summer...

September 22, 2020

Beneath the clear, polycarbonate dome encasing a former hockey arena, Ray Solotki, executive director of the Inuvik Community Greenhouse, tends to flourishing beds of vegetables and flowers. Temperatures in Inuvik, a 3,200-person Canadian town located 120 miles north of the Arctic Circle, can plummet below -40 F°. But inside the greenhouse, it’s often too warm, with temperatures easily reaching 100 F° in the summer. “We don’t really have a cold problem like a lot of people think we do,”...

Bundesbank Bunker Cochem in Cochem, Germany

September 22, 2020

In 1962 as Russia was installing missiles in Cuba, West Germany was making their own Cold War preparations. Beneath the sleepy village of Cochem Cond, work began on a massive underground bunker hidden behind two innocent looking houses. Locals assumed it was just another nuclear fall-out shelter. The bunker was actually being constructed by the German Bundesbank. Although the shelter was capable of protecting its staff against nuclear attack, its primary objective was to protect the bank’s cash reserves. ...

‘BEACHCOMBER’ in Edinburgh, Scotland

September 22, 2020

At the very western end of a small cobbled stone lane in the capital’s New Town, a series of decorative metal panels enhance the side of a nondescript building. This is the work of local artist, Astrid Jakel and was commissioned by the group Essential Edinburgh to beautify an otherwise drab locale. Together, they collaborated on a piece that would enhance the area and pay homage to the group known as the “Rose Street Poets,” who frequented the pubs...

Lumiang Cave in Sagada, Philippines

September 22, 2020

The Lumiang Cave is home to 100 ancient coffins. Stacked one on top of the other, these coffins form an eye-catching wall at the entrance of the cave that rises nine layers high. It has been estimated that the oldest coffins are around 500 years old. The coffins were placed at the entrance to protect them from the elements, but in the same token, so they could receive daylight that wards off evil spirits that may disturb these souls’...

General Sickles’s Wound Marker in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

September 22, 2020

General Sickles was an interesting man. He was a successful lawyer and politician, as well as one of the Union’s leading political generals. He commanded the forces at Gettysburg that nearly cost the Union the battle. Before the war, Daniel Sickles was more well known as a career Congressman and lawyer. In 1859, he discovered his wife had an affair with Phillip Barton Key II, son of Francis Scott Key. In a cold fit of rage, he assassinated Phillip,...

Exploring Chernobyl’s Imprint on Neighboring Belarus

September 22, 2020

This story is excerpted and adapted from Darmon Richter’s new book, Chernobyl: A Stalkers’ Guide. The Chernobyl disaster technically took place in the former Soviet republic of Ukraine, but radioactive contamination hardly respects geopolitical borders—especially the border with Belarus, a scant six miles from the site of the meltdown. Roughly two-thirds of the territory of Belarus suffered significant contamination, and within two years of the disaster, the Belarusian government had designated the most toxic area, along the Ukrainian border...

The Newest Addition to Denmark’s Happiness Museum:...

September 21, 2020

When Katie Diez talks to me from her home in rural Oregon, the world is red with smoke. It’s mid-September, and wildfires have been raging across the West Coast for weeks. “The air quality is in the hazardous level,” says Diez. “I keep looking out the window hoping that the smoke will start to clear.” Inside Diez’s home, however, life blossoms. Diez is a pediatric occupational therapist and the cofounder of Comfort Seeds, an initiative that uses gardening to...

Botswana Says It’s Solved the Mystery of...

September 21, 2020

This piece was originally published in The Guardian and appears here as part of our Climate Desk collaboration. Hundreds of elephants died in Botswana earlier this year from ingesting toxins produced by cyanobacteria, according to government officials who say they will be testing waterholes for algal blooms next rainy season to reduce the risk of another mass die-off. The mysterious death of 350 elephants in the Okavango Delta between May and June baffled conservationists, with leading theories suggesting they...

Alpine Inn in Portola Valley, California

September 21, 2020

Though the Alpine Inn is considered the site of history’s first internet transmission, this tavern is definitely more Wild West than World Wide Web. A former San Jose mayor built the bar in 1852 on a roadside in the Portola Valley, an ideal spot to avoid various city ordinances against drinking and gambling. Though it passed through various names and hands over the years, it was always a favorite with locals, especially the local Stanford students. But when a...

Slumgullion Earthflow in Lake City, Colorado

September 21, 2020

Designated as a National Natural Landmark in 1983, this relatively young and still active slide is one of the best examples of a rare geologic phenomenon known as “mass wasting” in the world. Centuries ago, a portion of the Lake City caldera broke off of Mesa Seco and started moving down the steep slopes of the Lake Branch of the Gunnison River. Unlike many other slides, this was a slow-moving mass of materials known as mass flow or earth...

Isthmia Prime Hotel in Isthmia, Greece

September 21, 2020

An overlooked Brutalist gem, the Isthmia Prime Hotel was built in the late 1960s by two friends, composer Iannis Xenakis and urban planner Panos Spiliotakos. Xenakis was a Greek artist and composer with a degree in engineering. Escaping the horrors of the Greek Civil War in 1947, he worked under the architect Le Corbusier in Paris. Xenakis helped design the Unite D’Habitation and Couvent De La Tourette projects, two of the most recognized Brutalist architecture sites worldwide. It was...

Gideon Green Memorial Stone in Newtownabbey, Northern...

September 21, 2020

Within Hazelbank Park sits a memorial stone dedicated to a Huguenot Soldier named Gideon Bonnivert. The diaries he wrote recorded the historic landings of King William III’s (“William of Orange”) massive European Army in 1690. His army went on to defeat King James VII of Scotland and Ireland at the Battle of The Boyne near the town of Drogheda on July 1, 1690. Gideon Bonnivert’s diary containing his accounts of the landing can be found at the British Museum in...

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