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World’s Largest Cherry Pie Tin in Traverse...

September 18, 2020

Traverse City, Michigan, often calls itself “The Cherry Capital of the World.” On July 25, 1987, Chef Pierre Bakeries celebrated that status with a cherry pie weighing 28,350 pounds and stretching 17 feet, 6 inches in diameter. While the pie was devoured decades ago, the tin still stands to the side of Cass Road in Traverse City. The pie tin for the record-setting pie was 18 feet wide and 26 inches deep. It was built by the Jacklin Steel...

The Jade Coast in Itoigawa, Japan

September 18, 2020

The city of Itoigawa, Niigata Prefecture, is known as one of the world’s oldest jade-producing regions. Even today, it’s arguably the most notable location in Japan where jade can be found. This is believed to be due to the city’s geological position, where the Fossa Magna and the Itoigawa-Shizuoka Tectonic Line meet. A plethora of minerals formed 20 to 500 million years ago were brought from the mountain ranges in the east, carried by such rivers as the Himekawa. As a result, many...

Cappella di San Giovanni in Bozen, Italy

September 18, 2020

The Scrovegni Chapel in Padua is considered one of the greatest masterpieces of Western Medieval art. Completed in the early 14th-century, the works of Giotto in Padua inspired the frescoes inside Cappella di San Giovanni (Saint John’s Chapel), part of the Chiesa dei Domenicani in Bolzano. Chiesa dei Domenicani was originally dedicated in 1272 but was completely rebuilt during the early 14th-century, with four new lateral chapels. The Cappella di San Giovanni was commissioned by a family of bankers...

A ‘Forgotten Holocaust’ Is Missing From Indian...

September 17, 2020

On a warm September morning in 1943, Chand Ali Khamaru walked eight grueling miles with a small bundle of rice to his father in Medinipur, in rural West Bengal. With the rice, he had googli (small, hapless snails he had cooked into a broth) and kochu shaak (fibrous leaves of the taro plant, which he had plucked from a pond and steamed in an iron pot). This was during the Bengal Famine of 1943, one of the greatest tragedies...

A Rare Day-by-Day Document of Life Aboard...

September 17, 2020

The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database documents more than 36,000 voyages in which enslaved persons were shipped across the Atlantic Ocean. Select any entry in the register and you’ll find a checklist of shockingly precise information: the size of the ship, the name of the captain, the number of enslaved persons initially on the ship as it embarked from Africa—and the number of those who died on the Middle Passage. It’s an eerie testament to the clerical cruelty of the...

Atumashi Monastery in Mandalay, Myanmar (Burma)

September 17, 2020

With an enormous single prayer hall inside, Atumashi Monastery is also known as the “Incomparable Monastery,” due to its sheer size. Atumashi Monastery is considered one of the largest religious buildings in Mandalay. The gigantic gold and white monastery was constructed by King Mindon in 1857. The monastery was once home to an image of Buddha that contained a massive diamond. The diamond was brought by the Governor of Rakhine from western Burma and presented to King Bodawpaya. However, in...

A Great Wave of Hokusai Drawings Resurfaced...

September 17, 2020

In 1829, when the celebrated Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai was almost 70 years old, he created more than 100 drawings of a dazzling array of subjects: playful cats, serene landscapes, even severed heads. Hokusai’s fame continued to grow after his death in 1849, and the suite of small, elaborate drawings was last purchased a century later, at a Paris auction in 1948. Then it disappeared from the public eye. Now, a total of 103 drawings have resurfaced. According to...

Site of the Dongan Oak in Brooklyn,...

September 17, 2020

Brooklyn has its fair share of Revolutionary War monuments, most commemorating battles fought and those that died in the conflict. The Dongan Oak Marker is unusual in that it marks the loss of a tree in the service of the patriots. In 1776, the Dongan Oak was one of the tallest trees in the area and was nearly 100 years old. The tree had been previously noted by Governor Dongan as a border marker between the villages of Brooklyn and...

Desert View Conservation Area in Joshua Tree,...

September 17, 2020

This hidden mountain biking and hiking destination is located just outside of Joshua Tree National Park. The Desert View Conservation Area, also known by the Bureau of Land Management as “Section 6,” is currently managed by the San Bernardino County Special Districts Department. The area was originally intended to become a robust recreation park area similar to Joshua Tree National Park. However, the local Joshua Tree community instead wanted to preserve the 605 acres of natural desert habitat for desert...

Lockville Ruins in Carroll, Ohio

September 17, 2020

Canals made Ohio in the early 19th century the way railroads would later make the West. Water routes from Lake Erie to the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico made it possible for towns and cities to spring up from frontier forests as freight and, by extension, wealth began circulating through the state. Most of those canals are long gone, but their ruins still dot the Ohio landscape in many places, including the remnants of a lock at the...

BallaGNOMEia in Balladonia, Australia

September 17, 2020

Australia’s famous Nullarbor Plain is a lonely, eerie place. Flat and desolate, it draws the adventurous, the nomadic … the strange. Those who have crossed its 1,030 miles have reported UFOs hovering in the sky, and the mysterious Min Min lights dancing on the horizon. In the last few years, however, a growing number of reports have come in of odd, humanoid creatures living along the Nullarbor’s treacherous 90 Mile Straight—creatures so well organized and intelligent that they have...

How Does an Archaeologist Keep Heritage Sites...

September 16, 2020

By the time the recent spate of wildfires began scorching Oregon and fouling the air with smoke, Kassandra Rippee, like most of us, already had a lot of practice wearing masks. Through the COVID-19 pandemic, she has worn one whenever she leaves the house. Now, as fires continue to cough smoke across America’s West Coast, those cloth masks just don’t seem to cut it. The air is sometimes so thick that wandering around feels like being in white-out conditions,...

Minnesota’s ‘Root Beer Lady’ Lived Alone in...

September 16, 2020

For paddlers in Minnesota’s million-acre-plus Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, a panorama of lakes and trees stretches as far as the eye can see. Bald eagles, swans, and loons patrol the BWCAW’s waters, deer, bear, and the occasional moose ramble its woods, and its pristine lakes teem with walleye, northern pike, and bass. What you seldom see are other people. Yet this is where Dorothy Molter lived from 1934 to 1986. On the Isle of Pines in Knife Lake,...

Vicus Caprarius in Rome, Italy

September 16, 2020

The Trevi Fountain is one of Rome‘s most notable tourist attractions. But what most visitors are unaware of is that there is an archaeological site hidden right beneath the famed neighborhood. Today nicknamed the “City of Water,” Vicus Caprarius is an ancient Roman apartment complex (insulae) dating to the 1st-century, established after the Great Fire of 64. It was then renovated into a domus, or upper-class house during the 4th-century. During the late 1990s, the site was discovered during expansion work...

Terminillo’s Sword in the Stone in Rieti,...

September 16, 2020

Near the cross-country skiing track on Terminillo, a winter resort famously developed by Italian Dictator Mussolini in the 1930s, a mysterious medieval sword stands as a testimony to an ancient local legend. The sword is set in the stone in an area known as “Cinque Confini” (Five Borders), at a spot where traditionally the territories of five towns met. Those towns are Rieti, Cittaducale, Micigliano, Borgovelino, and Castel Sant’Angelo. It’s said the sword was placed at this location by...

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