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Belmont Enslaved Cemetery in Ashburn, Virginia

August 3, 2020

Just east of Leesburg, Virginia, next to a heavily trafficked six-lane highway, is a plot of overgrown and scrubby wooded land that went unnoticed for years by passersby. That is until Reverend Michelle C. Thomas took notice while delving into Loudoun County land records researching potential building sites for her church. She discovered that the parcel of land had been a burial ground for the Belmont and Coton plantations’ enslaved populations. Constructed between 1796 and 1802, the plantations owned...

Aviation Management: A Great Guide to Start...

August 1, 2020

Aviation management positions have a lot to offer, providing you with a combination of responsibility, a varied day-to-day working life, excellent employee benefits and good pay. However, getting started in such a role can be challenging. Here, you will find a useful guide to help you begin your career as an aviation manager. Quick menu: The post Aviation Management: A Great Guide to Start Your Career in Aviation appeared first on Revfine.com.

The Battle to Invent the Automatic Rice...

July 31, 2020

Cooking rice on a stovetop can be fraught. Add too much water and you end up with porridge. Without a keen sense of timing, you end up with undercooked grains. But for others, making rice is as easy as pressing a button. In a recent viral video, Malaysian comedian Nigel Ng reacted dramatically to a BBC personality cooking rice with a saucepan rather than using a rice cooker. “World War Two is over, use technology!” he admonished viewers in...

We Now Know Where Almost All of...

July 31, 2020

About 4,500 years ago, a large stone was placed on a sloping hill on England’s Salisbury plain. It was followed by another and another, until an entire henge had been formed, with its iconic “sarsen trilithons” towering over its human creators. But at some point after that construction work several millennia ago, the location of the original quarries were lost to time. Only recently were the Preseli Hills of Wales pinned down as the source of the henge’s smaller...

1 O’Clock Time Signal in Sheffield City...

July 31, 2020

If you are a visitor to Sheffield, or even a jumpy local, you may be taken by surprise if you walk through the city centre at the right time. Since 1874, a siren has sounded by the entrance to HL Brown, a watchmaker and jeweler, every day. Those with a keen eye will see a small metal plate, much like a street sign, reading “1 o’clock time signal,” alongside the siren that alerts all who hear it that it is indeed...

Roberson Mansion in Binghamton, New York

July 31, 2020

Roberson Mansion is well known in the Binghamton area. Attached to the Roberson Museum and Science Center, this Gilded Age home has all the trappings of wealth and status. It was built for Alonzo and Margaret Roberson in 1904. Both were in their 40s when they decided to move from their Main Street home to Front Street. And they were willing to pay a lot. Before the mansion was built, there were two homes on the site. The Robersons purchased...

The Replica of Fet-Mats in Elsborg, Sweden

July 31, 2020

Today, when someone finds human remains that appear to have died tragically, it might make the news, and hopefully be followed by a respectful burial or cremation. But propping up those remains as some kind of attraction is a thing of the regrettable past. But this was often done (including in ethnographic and natural history museums). Fet-Mats is an example of this practice. Fet-Mats was a so-called “petrified man” whose remains were found in 1719. Miners found the body...

Fort Hensel in Malborghetto Valbruna, Italy

July 31, 2020

During his reign, Napoleon was seen as invincible, but in 1808 the French Empire saw some defeats in Spain, and this encouraged the Austrian Empire to join the Anti-French Alliance. The war moved to the Alps and saw fighting at Fort Malborgeth commanded by Austrian Captain Friedrich Hensel. For three days, from May 14 to 17, 1809, the commander and his men heroically fought to their death. His actions delayed the French Army long enough to allow Austrian Archduke...

The Kingsclere Bed Bug in Kingsclere, England

July 31, 2020

In the Hampshire village of Kingsclere, an unusual legend surrounds a curious decoration upon the village’s church, a weather-vane in the shape of a hissing bed bug. According to the story, during the early 13th-century, King John was caught in a thick fog after a day of hunting. Unable to return from whence they came, the King and his party stayed overnight in Kingsclere. Some tales say they chose to rest in a nearby inn, others claim they stayed with...

Shrine of the Immaculate Virgin in Staten...

July 31, 2020

The Shrine of the Immaculate Virgin was erected in 1935. The stone masonry niche was constructed so that it faced St. Elizabeth’s, the girls’ dormitory at Mount Loretto, once the largest orphanage in New York State. Mount Loretto opened in 1883 and was operated by the Mission of the Immaculate Virgin. It housed more than 1,000 orphaned children at its peak. By 1947, the facility encompassed 700 acres and 42 buildings north and south of Hylan Boulevard. Across the...

The Cambrian Creatures That Grew Up Over...

July 30, 2020

With any luck, humans change a lot over the course of our time on Earth. As we grow out of our teeny onesies and our teenage styles, the aging process can feel a lot like shedding a past self. But other creatures literally do that: step out of their bodies and grow into a new one. For trilobites—marine arthropods that appeared in the Cambrian period, more than 500 million years ago—molting was a key part of growing up. Trilobites...

The Ancient Greek Temples Home to Orchards,...

July 30, 2020

Archaeological ruins are rocks artfully placed and artfully collapsed. Since the Romantics, they have been sites of imagination where we conjure the past. At the Valley of the Temples, which has occupied a ridge outside the city of Agrigento, Italy, for 2,500 years, visitors come to admire the Doric columns and see the stunning Greek structures that have stood through weather and war. What they see is the skeleton of a long-gone society. Tour guides and didactic panels describe...

The Woman Who Changed the Way We...

July 30, 2020

Despite all the deep-sea expeditions and samples taken from the seabed over the past 100 years, humans still know very little about the ocean’s deepest reaches. And there are good reasons to learn more. Most tsunamis start with earthquakes under or near the ocean floor. The seafloor provides habitat for fish, corals and complex communities of microbes, crustaceans, and other organisms. Its topography controls currents that distribute heat, helping to regulate Earth’s climate. July 30 marks the 100th anniversary...

The Original Ornäsbjork in Borlänge, Sweden

July 30, 2020

Like people, trees and plants can be born with mutations that alter their appearance and functions. The Ornäsbjork is a prime example of such a mutation: a normal silver birch that has rather unique pointy leaves. This birch was discovered by Hans Gustaf Hiordt, Dalarnas County secretary in 1767. Understanding the magnitude of what he had found, he transferred the tree to his land and notified biologists. Carl Linnaeus, the famed Swedish botanist and zoologist who devised the system of binomial...

Never Again Statue in Albadarr, The Gambia

July 30, 2020

Inscribed on the base of this unique statue are the words “Never Again!” It stands as a reminder to the horrors of slavery faced by the people who once lived in this region of the country. This eye-catching statue is located on the mainland of The Gambia, facing the Kunta Kinteh Island. The island was once a key location during the Atlantic Slave Trade. Slaves were often imprisoned on the island before being transported to the United States. The...

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