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Keramat Kusu in Khusu Island, Singapore

September 15, 2020

Located on Kusu (Turtle) Island, not far from mainland Singapore, the keramats (venerated shrines) of Syed Abdul Rahman, Nenek Ghalib, and Puteri Fatimah stand as an emblem of syncretic cultural and religious practices in the region. Together with the broadly Taoist Tua Pek Kong temple, the keramats are the focus of the annual pilgrimage season, held on the 9th lunar month of the Chinese calendar. The keramats are also referred to as Datuk Kong, a portmanteau Sino-Malay honorific for a respected...

Qshla Koya in Koysinjaq, Iraq

September 15, 2020

Qshla Koya, also known as Qishla Koysinjaq, is a fortress located on a hillock in the central quarter of Koya, a lovely town in the Northeast of Iraq. Although there is a lack of consensus among scholars, it’s generally believed that Qshla Koya was constructed between 1869 and 1872, under the aegis of the Ottoman Empire. The purpose of the structure was unmistakably military, housing troops and providing a strategic vantage point to monitor the surrounding area. The enormous...

Sansouci Puppet Museum in Wilmington, Australia

September 15, 2020

Wilmington, South Australia, is a small, picturesque town at the base of the Flinders Ranges. The quiet farming community is known for sheep, wheat, barley—and puppets. In fact, Wilmington is home to more puppets than people. Opened by Brian and Rosemary Whitehead in 2007, the Sansouci Puppet Museum holds the largest private collection of puppets in the country. It’s the only museum of its kind in Australia. Whitehead’s interest in puppets was a happy accident that began after a...

The Detective on the Case of the...

September 14, 2020

The Mississippi Delta, an alluvial floodplain that covers roughly 7,000 square miles between the Mississippi and Yazoo Rivers, is globally recognized as the birthplace of blues music. But the region is also known for a staple street food that has fueled Delta life and culture for over a century: the hot tamale. This cornmeal-wrapped treat even inspired blues legend Robert Johnson to pen an ode, They’re Red Hot, in tribute. While the hot tamale is still enjoyed by all...

These Powerful Pins Honored Suffragists Who Were...

September 14, 2020

The first-ever White House picket was led by women, lasted for more than a year, and was met with violence from both counter-protesters and law enforcement. In November 1917, after 10 months of picketing, the government’s crackdown on protestors reached a new intensity. Dozens of protesters were arrested and incarcerated at the infamous Occoquan Workhouse, where they faced brutality. One night, later dubbed the “Night of Terror,” a guard threw a protester on an iron bed, striking her head;...

Charlie’s Aeroplane in Murray Town, Australia

September 14, 2020

So you’re driving the Horrocks Highway on a warm summer day, the Flinders Ranges rising majestically behind you, pastures undulating ahead for as far as the eye can see. Sheep graze, windmills creak, and it’s quiet enough to daydream. Then you see it: a red and white Douglas DC-3 planted in the blue, cloudless sky. Charlie’s Aeroplane—a pole-mounted model—has been a beloved landmark, and sparked the imaginations of locals and visitors alike, in Murray Town, South Australia, for over...

Olson House in Cushing, Maine

September 14, 2020

In 1948, American visual artist and realist painter, Andrew Wyeth, created the painting “Christina’s World,” which became one of the most well-known works of the mid-20th-Century. The painting depicts a woman in a pale pink dress laying semi-reclined, as if crawling, in a barren field. She appears to be gazing towards a grey clapboard house, its barn, and outbuildings. The house in the painting is the Olson House, and aside from the artist’s rearrangement of some outbuildings, looks the...

Stockholm University Arboretum in Stockholm, Sweden

September 14, 2020

Botanical gardens have allowed scientists to research plants for centuries, making far off and exotic specimens locally accessible. This practice has produced beautiful botanical gardens across the world. However, most of these are focussed on plants and smaller shrubs. What happens when a researcher wants to study trees instead? The Stockholm University arboretum is exactly that, a large collection of trees from across the globe waiting to be studied. The collection consists of well over 1,000 trees. The trees...

The Goodnight Barn in Pueblo, Colorado

September 14, 2020

Charles Goodnight ignited the cowboy culture that would go on to define the American southwest. His likeness is immortalized in stone and bronze across the state of Texas. He is known for transforming cattle drives from a hardscrabble frontier livelihood, into the biggest business in the American West. In 1955, he was inducted into the Hall of Great Westerners of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum. However, before he became a Texas legend, Goodnight chose to live along the banks of the Arkansas...

The End of Centralia’s Abandoned, Colorful, Anarchic...

September 14, 2020

A trio of camera-toting 20-somethings stumble out of a Delaware-plated Honda Civic onto the shoulder of a rural Pennsylvania highway. It’s summer 2020, and amid the pandemic, they’ve road-tripped nearly three hours up circuitous, mountain roads to reach their off-the-grid destination: the notorious, smoldering, coal-country ghost town of Centralia. They’ve come to this remote corner of Columbia County to take in one sight in particular, the vast spray-painted surface a mile of the former Route 61, commonly known as...

Do Small Hotels Need a RMS? How...

September 14, 2020

As a hotelier, you have a lot on your plate. From taking care of your staff and guests to managing your online presence, bills and housekeeping – it’s no easy task. But even so, it is imperative you do not overlook one of the most important things to manage: your hotel revenue. In this article The post Do Small Hotels Need a RMS? How to Overcome the 6 Challenges? appeared first on Revfine.com.

Make the Midwest’s Award-Winning State-Fair Foods at...

September 11, 2020

Beth Campbell remembers long days working on various family farms as a child. Along with her parents and siblings, as well as her aunts, uncles, and cousins, she would go from one farm to the next to help with the daily chores. Along with milking cows before and after school, she’d often find herself grinding green tomatoes in a large cement basement. But the work was not without rewards: Her mother and grandmother would transform the fruits of her...

Vicolo Inferno in Imola, Italy

September 11, 2020

It is the year 1504, Cesare Borgia has fallen and Imola, his headquarters, is wracked by violence. Two families, as in many Italian stories, are facing each other: Sassatelli and Vaini (corresponding to the Guelfi and Ghibellini factions). The boss of Sassatelli is Giovanni, known as “Il Cagnaccio,” meaning a bad or threatening dog but also a violent, treacherous, cruel person. Il Cagnaccio is feared by everybody, but he and his soldiers are not in town when, at the...

The Site of Yatate Hajime in Adachi...

September 11, 2020

One of the most renowned poets from Japan‘s Edo period (1603–1868), Matsuo Bashō is known for his travelogue Oku no Hosomichi (The Narrow Road to the Deep North), a collection of the haiku he read on his half-year, 1,500-mile-long journey from Tokyo to the north and back. As such, there are many historic sites related to Bashō across Japan, and although not the among the most famous of these, the Site of Yatate Hajime in the Senju area cannot go unmentioned. The...

Los Ángeles and La Cruz Graveyards in...

September 11, 2020

Although the area may seem like one graveyard to new visitors, La Cruz and Los Ángeles cemeteries are actually two cemeteries barely divided by an old fence. Both cemeteries feature a striking variety of artistic styles, including paintings, ironworks, and sculptures made from marble as well as pink and yellow quarry stone. Inside, it is easy to get lost in the corridors to find the most unique tombs to which small metal plates have been placed revealing the stories...

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