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Wild Life: Helpful Honeyguides

May 3, 2024

Each week, Atlas Obscura is providing a new short excerpt from our upcoming book, Wild Life: An Explorer’s Guide to the World’s Living Wonders (September 17, 2024). You’re walking in the woods in Mozambique, humming to yourself. Suddenly, a small brown bird appears. You glimpse him in the trees ahead as he calls out: chatter-chatter-chatter-chatter! Don’t be alarmed. If you can, follow that bird wherever he goes. He’s trying to get both of you a snack. Across sub-Saharan Africa,...

How to Consult an Onion Oracle

May 3, 2024

On a cold New Year’s Eve in 1967 in Ashley, North Dakota, newlyweds Donna and Delbert Eszlinger sliced excitedly into a large, round yellow onion. First, they split it lengthwise down the middle. Then, carefully, the couple peeled back the onion’s layers, laying 12 fresh, eye-watering sections side-by-side, and topping each with a teaspoon of salt. The onion wasn’t the makings of a celebratory dish for the new year, but a window into the future. While the ground outside...

Cement City in Donora, Pennsylvania

May 3, 2024

During World War I, the town of Donora, Pennsylvania, located about 30 miles south of Pittsburgh, roared with activity. The mills in Donora manufactured steel for all sorts of wartime materiel and zinc, used to galvanize the steel to prevent rust. The mills required a growing number of workers, and those workers needed houses to live in, an increasingly scarce commodity. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette wrote in 1915, the year the zinc factory was built, that “accommodations are proving entirely insufficient. Some...

The Legends of Dilmun in Manama, Bahrain

May 3, 2024

The Bahrain National Museum has on display a captivating tableau depicting the ancient Mesopotamian epic of Gilgamesh and Enki (aka Enkidu). The connection between Gilgamesh and the Dilmun civilization lies in the epic’s references to Dilmun (modern-day Bahrain) as a paradisiacal land of bliss and eternal youth. The museum has an entire hall dedicated to the Dilmun civilization, which persisted in this region from 5,000 B.C. to 400 B.C. Each element of the tableau is rich in symbolism, reflecting...

7 Stories to Toast To Cinco de...

May 3, 2024

Over the last half-century Cinco de Mayo has morphed from a relatively quiet commemoration of the Mexican army’s victory over French troops in the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862, into a United States-centric celebration, usually centered around tacos and margaritas (and often mistaken for Mexican Independence Day, which is actually September 16). But this year Atlas Obscura is marking the occasion with a deep dive into Mexico’s culture from the amber mines of the southern state of...

Denver Avenue Station in Tulsa, Oklahoma

May 3, 2024

Downtown Tulsa, Oklahoma contains many examples of Art Deco architecture, but among those many marvels, one building stands out as nearly a parody of the style. The “fauxback” Denver Avenue Station, with its exaggerated Art Deco elements, is not an architectural wonder. Instead, its form tells the story of Tulsa’s boom, protracted decline, and hope for its revival. Tulsa’s prominence as an Art Deco city is mostly a matter of happenstance. On June 24, 1901, oil shot out 30...

Interview with CEO and Founder Uli Pillau...

May 3, 2024

In this interview, we’ll be talking with Uli Pillau. Pillau founded Apaleo, the world’s first API-driven property management platform for the hotel industry, based upon an API-first architecture. This has created a full development hub for the industry as a whole. Can you tell us a bit about The post Interview with CEO and Founder Uli Pillau of Apaleo appeared first on Revfine.com.

The 19th-Century ‘Strawberry Parties’ That Raised Money...

May 2, 2024

Though the New Year might start on January 1, and the calendar puts mid-March as the start of spring, May is when it finally feels like winter is over. In England and North America, May and June also once meant the return of an exciting seasonal celebration: the strawberry party. Jane Austen’s 1815 novel Emma depicts a June strawberry party hosted by the landowner Mr. Knightley. With the help of the boorish Mrs. Elton character, the reader gets a...

Profondo Rosso in Rome, Italy

May 2, 2024

In the upscale Prati neighborhood of Rome hides a sinister sanctum of horror with an underground dungeon displaying the darker side of Italian cinema. Founded in 1989, Profondo Rosso is a lot more than a mere little shop of horror memorabilia. To begin with, its owner is none other than Dario Argento himself – the giallo legend known for such glaring, gory, suspenseful works as Suspiria (1977) and Deep Red (1975), the latter of which served as its namesake....

Vigo Bridge in Chioggia, Italy

May 2, 2024

While Chioggia is known for its canals, to the extent it is also known as “little Venice,” most of its canal footbridges are relatively simple. However, where Vega Canal meets the sea a brilliant white structure, the Ponte Vigo, catches the eye. The current Vigo bridge is made of Istrian stone with marble balustrades and dates back to 1685. It is Chioggia’s answer to the Rialto Bridge in Venice. The bridge was first built in 1379 during a war...

Israël Kiek Memorial in Leiden, Netherlands

May 2, 2024

Now that nearly everybody carries a camera with them in their phone, photography is ubiquitous. But there were times when taking a picture was a big deal, and required expensive and hard-to-find equipment. In these early days, people became famous for their photography skills—some to the point where their names became synonymous with their photographs. Israël Kiek was one of the pioneers of photography in the Netherlands, offering the service in his cigar shop starting in 1858. Kiek became...

Croatia Bans Winter By Partying Like ‘Where...

May 2, 2024

The freshness of spring is already in the air by February in the Croatian hilltop village of Viskovo. A riotous noise approaches: a cavalcade of bell-ringing, music, and screaming. In a magical-seeming ritual, an army of men in grotesque animal masks dance, draped in sheepskins, armed with axes and clubs. They huddle into a concentric circle and shake their rumps, clattering hundreds of cowbells in unison. They’re orchestrated by a flamboyant commander (the komandante) in an all-white uniform and...

Ryuko-Myojin Shrine in Kamakura, Japan

May 2, 2024

Ryūjin, literally translated as “Dragon God,” is one of the major deities in Japanese mythology. An embodiment of the forces of nature, the dragon represents the sun, the sky, the element of water, disasters, fortune, and power. His worship stems from ancient animism and continues to be popular across Japan, with hundreds of Shintō shrines dedicated to him. Among those, Ryūkō-Myōjin Shrine in the Nishi-Kamakura neighborhood is a rare variant, being the only shrine of Gozūryū-Ōkami, the Five-Headed Dragon...

The Blood-Sucking Capelobo Haunts Brazil’s Dense Forests

May 2, 2024

It was just about 4 a.m. when an otherworldly scream cut through the forests lining the Xingu River in northern Brazil. A couple walking along a nearby road hurried to hide behind a rubber tree. From that vantage point, they could see a shadowy figure approaching them. As it grew closer, they recognized the outline of a man, but the creature was covered in animal hair and emitted a vile smell. It screamed again, its blood-curdling call echoing under...

The Battle Tapestry in Battle, England

May 2, 2024

In the town of Battle, named for its role as the site of 1066’s Battle of Hastings, stands St. Mary’s Church. The church is home to a grand piece of embroidery known as The Battle Tapestry. Designed by local artist Tina Greene, this masterpiece showcases the key historical events that took place in the town between the Battle of Hastings in 1066 and the founding of St. Mary’s Church in 1115. This incredible work of art measures three meters...

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