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Rhododendron Species Botanical Garden in Federal Way,...

May 21, 2020

The Rhododendron Species Botanical Garden (RSBG) is unusual for many reasons, including its unassuming address. Federal Way is a suburb nestled between Seattle and Tacoma, best known for its strip malls and horrific traffic. It’s not somewhere you’d expect to find a botanical garden—let alone a sprawling, 22-acre oasis teeming with rare plants. In the 1970s, the Rhododendron Species Foundation was allotted a plot of land on the 400-acre wooded campus where a large logging company maintained its headquarters. What...

The Chestnuts in Guildford, England

May 21, 2020

In the garden behind a Victorian brick house, a sculpture of an inquisitive Alice, caught between two realms, extends two stony hands through the glass in front of her. The place she eternally guards—or at least the one we can see—is known as The Chestnuts. Here, the author of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, known by his pen name of Lewis Carroll, spent his final days. The late author was no stranger to multiple realities, himself....

Kitsilano Pool in Vancouver, British Columbia

May 21, 2020

Of the five outdoor swimming pools in Vancouver, many would say that Kitsilano Pool is the cream of the crop. Situated directly on the water in the city’s trendy Kitsilano neighborhood, the pool—known as Kits Pool to locals—is a popular summer gathering place. At 137 meters (450 feet), it is the longest salt water swimming pool in North America; almost three times the length of an Olympic pool. Its waters are replenished by the changing of the tide. Kits Pool...

Grave of Alexander Csoma de Kőrös in...

May 21, 2020

Each year, the Hungarian government sends a delegation to the Old Darjeeling Cemetery to honor Alexander Csoma (or more properly in Hungarian, Sándor Csoma de Kőrös) whose pioneering linguistic studies helped open Central Asia to the West. Csoma died of malaria in Darjeeling in 1844, but the effects of his scholarly contributions continue to be felt nearly 2 centuries later. Born in Transylvania (which was then under the Hungarian crown) in around 1784, Csoma was initially interested in finding...

Royal Mint Jáchymov Museum in Jáchymov, Czechia

May 21, 2020

The word “dollar” derives from the former German currency thaler, which in turn comes from Joachimsthaler, a large silver coin from the 16th century. It was originally minted in the Bohemian town of Joachimsthal, known today as Jáchymov. Located in an ore-rich area in the mountains, the town of Jáchymov was founded in 1516, the same year its silver mines opened. The silver coins were first minted two years later. The property purchased to establish the mint stood adjacent to...

Was a Classic Chinese Hat an Early...

May 20, 2020

Last month, as children in China started returning to school after COVID-19 closures, an ancient hat from the Song Dynasty came back into fashion. At a primary school in Hangzhou, pupils donned handmade headgear that they fashioned out of paper, balloons, and other crafts, with protruding arms that spanned one meter. These eccentric hats were intended to help them adjust to social distancing measures, the South China Morning Post reported, and they were modeled after hats once worn by...

Under Pandemic Prohibition, South Africans Resort to...

May 20, 2020

On March 15, the day before South Africans were plunged into a lockdown which prohibited sales of alcohol, cigarettes, and takeout food, lines outside liquor stores spilled into the streets. One bottle store owner told me he did a month’s trade in a day. Three weeks later, when President Cyril Ramaphosa made it clear the booze ban wouldn’t be lifted anytime soon, South Africans started to get desperate. Bottle store break-ins and drone-assisted drink deliveries made the news across...

San Gervasio in Cozumel, Mexico

May 20, 2020

From Polé to Xaman-Há, Maya settlements on the Caribbean coast of modern-day Mexico were often dedicated to assisting pilgrims on their way to the temples of fertility goddess Ixchel, often established on nearby islands. One island was so full of female idols that the Spanish named it Isla Mujeres, or Island of Women, while in Cozumel, several temples dedicated to the goddess were well-known pilgrimage sites. The Cozumel site now known as San Gervasio was not part of a...

Mount St. Helens Is Going Green Again

May 20, 2020

The most explosive volcanic eruptions are striking not just for their vivid pyrotechnic displays, or for the huge clouds of ash they spew into the air. Often, the aftermath is just as jarring—the miles upon miles of ash that blanket the earth, extinguishing the life that grew there and suppressing any that was to come. But nothing is forever. Take Mount St. Helens, whose gargantuan eruption 40 years ago—the deadliest in U.S. history—completely destroyed the top of the mountain....

Fort Péninsule in Gaspé, Québec

May 20, 2020

You don’t exactly think of quaint Canadian fishing towns as a theater of war. But Fort Péninsule (Peninsula Fort), strategically at the mouth of the Saint Lawrence River, played a critical role in the defense of Allied shipping convoys and winning the Battle of the Atlantic during World War II. As early as 1941, German U-Boats had been spotted off the coast of Newfoundland and Nova Scotia. It was just a matter of time before they found their way...

The Museum of Youth Culture Wants Your...

May 20, 2020

Bars, parks, and schools are closed until further notice, but one British museum is making sure that we remember what it means to be young. With millions stuck at home, within close reach of old photo albums, the United Kingdom’s Museum of Youth Culture (MOYC) has issued a call for submissions: The museum wants your childhood, adolescent, and teenage photos—in all their adorable, rebellious, or just plain awkward glory. The submissions will join the museum’s growing archive of looks,...

Bee Museum of Rhodes in Rhodes, Greece

May 20, 2020

Bees have long been an important part of the Earth’s ecosystem. Many ancient cultures recognized the contributions of these humble insects, and cultivated them. The Bee Museum of Rhodes in Greece honors the long and storied relationship between humans and bees around the world. There’s a handful of apiculture museums across the world, but the Bee Museum in Rhodes is a unique one. Decorated with honeycomb-shaped ceilings, the museum is bathed in honey-colored lighting, sure to make Winnie-the-Pooh hungry....

Potemkin Stairs in Odesa, Ukraine

May 20, 2020

Based on the mutiny of the battleship Potemkin of 1905, the Soviet silent film Battleship Potemkin was directed by Sergei Eisenstein and released in 1925. It stands as a milestone in the history of cinema, its montage editing techniques ahead of its time. In 2012, the British Film Institute named it the 11th greatest film of all time, and it has been named as the favorite of Charlie Chaplin, Orson Welles, Billy Wilder, and Michael Mann, to name a few. One...

4 Important Hotel Metrics to Measure Your...

May 20, 2020

The majority of hotels tend to ignore that data is essential for their business or tend to think that data gathering and reporting is something reserved for big multinational hotel chains like Accor or Marriott. Yet, the contrary is the case: vital hotel metrics can benefit each hotel. In this article, you will find why having accurate metrics in your hotel could boost your revenue and hotel’s success. Hotel Metrics Essential for Each Hotel The most common scenario would...

Bourbon County Horse Walk of Fame in...

May 20, 2020

The counties surrounding Lexington, Kentucky, make up what is known as the Bluegrass Region, steeped in history and renowned for bourbon and world-class racehorses. Bourbon County is hallowed ground there, home to some of the state’s most iconic horse-breeding operations. To recognize its unique standing, the city of Paris installed the “Bourbon County Horse Walk of Fame”—nine blocks on both sides of Main Street. The “Walk” includes 60 numbered concrete markers, all but one representing a famous racehorse associated with...

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