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Eastern Sub-Continental Divide Mural in Atlanta, Georgia

August 24, 2020

Unlike most major cities, Atlanta is not built around a waterway, like a bay or river. Atlanta was founded around railways. And railways are best designed where there is minimal elevation change, such as along a hydrological feature known as a continental divide. A continental divide is a ridge line dividing major watersheds in an area, and the Eastern Sub-Continental Divide runs right through Atlanta, by design. Although the well-known Chattahoochee is Atlanta’s largest river, it was not central to...

Senju Shrine Bomb Shelter in Adachi City,...

August 24, 2020

As fighting during the Pacific War grew more intense, Tokyo was often subjected to air raids from the Allied forces. To escape the bombings, civilians constructed shelters across the city. Although many didn’t survive the war, a few are still easily accessible. One such shelter can be found within the grounds of Senju Shrine, which contains two shrines originally founded in 926 and 1279. The makeshift concrete shelter could house around a dozen people should the occasion arise. Although abandoned today,...

Victorian Walkway in Whitehead, Northern Ireland

August 24, 2020

In the small seaside town of Whitehead, history is a huge part of the town’s cultural identity. It was known as a Victorian railway village and is home to Victorian and Edwardian buildings, the Railway Preservation Society of Ireland, steam trains, and of course, this Victorian walkway. At the Beach Road end of the Whitehead Train Station is a small footbridge that dates back to the Victorian era. The railway structure is an important historic monument and has been...

What It’s Like to Care for the...

August 24, 2020

For a few days in mid-July 2020, a botanical spectacle began to unfurl at Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania. Over the course of these two days, a massive titan arum, better known as a “corpse flower,” bloomed before crowds of hundreds of people waiting in socially distanced lines. Among the largest inflorescences (the “bloom” is covered in smaller flowers) in the world, titan arums earned their popular name by emitting the overwhelming smell of rotting flesh to attract...

The Ultimate COVID Recovery Strategy for Every...

August 23, 2020

COVID-19 brought the global hospitality industry to a grinding halt. Now, many destinations are slowly opening up again and the industry is beginning to recover. To help you get the most out of your property during this rebound phase, this article summarises expert COVID recovery tips for your marketing, revenue management, F&B and front office The post The Ultimate COVID Recovery Strategy for Every Hotel Department appeared first on Revfine.com.

Recreate the Ancient Egyptian Recipes Painted on...

August 21, 2020

The ancient Egyptians left writing everywhere, with hieroglyphics carved painstakingly onto stone steles and miraculously preserved in papyrus. Though historians are able to study ancient texts on subjects from trade to funeral rites, one category is largely missing from the record: recipes. Without any textual directions or menus, historians have looked elsewhere to unlock the secrets of a 5,000-year-old culinary culture. As it turns out, paintings on tomb walls can provide a rare glimpse into one of the oldest...

Tell Us About the Most Wondrous Things...

August 21, 2020

For the past several weeks, we’ve been taking a virtual road trip across the United States, getting reacquainted with some of the strangest and most enchanting sights America has to offer. We’re nearly halfway through this project—50 States of Wonder, our guide to fascinating things from coast to coast and beyond. Many readers have journeyed with us as we visited things that rise high above North Dakota’s flat landscape, Oregon’s most spellbinding holes, truly trippy art in Kansas, and...

The Hidden Histories of Black Americans in...

August 21, 2020

Monique Wells moved from Texas to Paris in 1992 for a job, and she ended up staying indefinitely. Like generations of Americans before her, Wells and her husband fell in love with the City of Light. But since she went there as a veterinary pathobiologist, and not as a tourist, it was years before she asked herself where she’d go if she only had a few days in Paris. Then Wells and her husband, Tom, started a company that...

Humpback Bridge in Covington, Virginia

August 21, 2020

Located three miles west of Covington, the Humpback Bridge in Alleghany County is the oldest of seven covered bridges still standing in Virginia. It’s also one of two remaining cambered and covered wooden bridges in the United States. For over 163 years, the bridge endured catastrophic floods, fires, and decay. These elements have destroyed all other covered bridges in this region of the Shenandoah Valley. Its last brush with destruction occurred in September 2016, when the bridge again survived...

Mill Brae Memory Garden in Larne, Northern...

August 21, 2020

In a little corner of Larne, a local resident transformed a former grass verge into a community garden for all to enjoy. The garden in question sits at the bottom corner of the Mill Brae, at the junction with Lower Cairncastle Road, next to Larne Grammar Secondary School. Local resident Ann Magee single-handedly converted the area into a floral paradise with wildflowers, potted plants, garden ornaments, decorative plants, fairy lights, and paving stones. Magee originally created the garden to...

Poppy Mural in Mid and East Antrim,...

August 21, 2020

The Great War (World War I) has etched its memory into the lives of the people of the Northern Ireland town of Carrickfergus. As a show of appreciation to the local lives lost in the century-old conflict, this mural was commissioned in 2014. It shows a lone soldier standing solemnly beside a single cross raised over a field of poppies as the sun sets beyond. The foreground flowers are made of wood to create a 3D effect, and there...

‘Xipe Totec’ in Mexico City, Mexico

August 21, 2020

Installed in 2010 as part of the 100th anniversary of the country’s National Autonomous University (UNAM), this pink and blue neon piece is the work of artist Thomas Glassford, a Mexico City resident born in Laredo, Texas. It’s named after a Mexica (the pre-Columbian peoples better known internationally as Aztecs) god, revered for a legend in which he gave his skin to shelter humanity. His flaying is tied to the peeling of maize, with Xipe Tótec being a representative...

Ada Stonehenge in Belgrade, Serbia

August 21, 2020

Stonehenge is a world-famous landmark that features several replicas all across the globe. Belgrade, the capital of Serbia, also has its own version of the site known as Ada Stonehenge. The installation was crafted by sculptor Ratko Vulanović in 1992 and now stands at the entrance of Ada Ciganlija, a popular recreational zone. Vulanović stated that the United Kingdom‘s original Stonehenge was his inspiration, but also a hearth from his childhood. In his family home, several stones were typically...

Grave of Beauford Delaney in Thiais, France

August 21, 2020

The tombstone of the painter Beauford Delaney, in Division 86 of the Cimetière Parisien de Thiais, carries a three-word epigraph: “I am home.” Delaney’s residence changed several times: born in Knoxville, Tennessee, he lived in Boston and New York before making Paris his home for the last 26 years of his life. Delaney moved there in 1953, encouraged by his close friend James Baldwin, who had settled in the City of Light a few years before. He continued painting...

New York’s Favorite Trash-Strewn Beach Is a...

August 20, 2020

Across the world, beachcombers survey sand for little hunks of glass turned smooth and cloudy by a tumble in the waves. People wandering the shore of Dead Horse Bay, along the southern edge of Brooklyn, encounter the motherlode. No need to squint to find slivers of glass beneath tangles of seaweed—the shore often glints brown and green with entire, unbroken bottles. It’s also not uncommon to find intact light bulbs, bits of ceramics or rusted metal, or the soggy...

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