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Olson House in Cushing, Maine

September 14, 2020

In 1948, American visual artist and realist painter, Andrew Wyeth, created the painting “Christina’s World,” which became one of the most well-known works of the mid-20th-Century. The painting depicts a woman in a pale pink dress laying semi-reclined, as if crawling, in a barren field. She appears to be gazing towards a grey clapboard house, its barn, and outbuildings. The house in the painting is the Olson House, and aside from the artist’s rearrangement of some outbuildings, looks the...

Stockholm University Arboretum in Stockholm, Sweden

September 14, 2020

Botanical gardens have allowed scientists to research plants for centuries, making far off and exotic specimens locally accessible. This practice has produced beautiful botanical gardens across the world. However, most of these are focussed on plants and smaller shrubs. What happens when a researcher wants to study trees instead? The Stockholm University arboretum is exactly that, a large collection of trees from across the globe waiting to be studied. The collection consists of well over 1,000 trees. The trees...

The Goodnight Barn in Pueblo, Colorado

September 14, 2020

Charles Goodnight ignited the cowboy culture that would go on to define the American southwest. His likeness is immortalized in stone and bronze across the state of Texas. He is known for transforming cattle drives from a hardscrabble frontier livelihood, into the biggest business in the American West. In 1955, he was inducted into the Hall of Great Westerners of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum. However, before he became a Texas legend, Goodnight chose to live along the banks of the Arkansas...

The End of Centralia’s Abandoned, Colorful, Anarchic...

September 14, 2020

A trio of camera-toting 20-somethings stumble out of a Delaware-plated Honda Civic onto the shoulder of a rural Pennsylvania highway. It’s summer 2020, and amid the pandemic, they’ve road-tripped nearly three hours up circuitous, mountain roads to reach their off-the-grid destination: the notorious, smoldering, coal-country ghost town of Centralia. They’ve come to this remote corner of Columbia County to take in one sight in particular, the vast spray-painted surface a mile of the former Route 61, commonly known as...

Do Small Hotels Need a RMS? How...

September 14, 2020

As a hotelier, you have a lot on your plate. From taking care of your staff and guests to managing your online presence, bills and housekeeping – it’s no easy task. But even so, it is imperative you do not overlook one of the most important things to manage: your hotel revenue. In this article The post Do Small Hotels Need a RMS? How to Overcome the 6 Challenges? appeared first on Revfine.com.

Make the Midwest’s Award-Winning State-Fair Foods at...

September 11, 2020

Beth Campbell remembers long days working on various family farms as a child. Along with her parents and siblings, as well as her aunts, uncles, and cousins, she would go from one farm to the next to help with the daily chores. Along with milking cows before and after school, she’d often find herself grinding green tomatoes in a large cement basement. But the work was not without rewards: Her mother and grandmother would transform the fruits of her...

Vicolo Inferno in Imola, Italy

September 11, 2020

It is the year 1504, Cesare Borgia has fallen and Imola, his headquarters, is wracked by violence. Two families, as in many Italian stories, are facing each other: Sassatelli and Vaini (corresponding to the Guelfi and Ghibellini factions). The boss of Sassatelli is Giovanni, known as “Il Cagnaccio,” meaning a bad or threatening dog but also a violent, treacherous, cruel person. Il Cagnaccio is feared by everybody, but he and his soldiers are not in town when, at the...

The Site of Yatate Hajime in Adachi...

September 11, 2020

One of the most renowned poets from Japan‘s Edo period (1603–1868), Matsuo Bashō is known for his travelogue Oku no Hosomichi (The Narrow Road to the Deep North), a collection of the haiku he read on his half-year, 1,500-mile-long journey from Tokyo to the north and back. As such, there are many historic sites related to Bashō across Japan, and although not the among the most famous of these, the Site of Yatate Hajime in the Senju area cannot go unmentioned. The...

Los Ángeles and La Cruz Graveyards in...

September 11, 2020

Although the area may seem like one graveyard to new visitors, La Cruz and Los Ángeles cemeteries are actually two cemeteries barely divided by an old fence. Both cemeteries feature a striking variety of artistic styles, including paintings, ironworks, and sculptures made from marble as well as pink and yellow quarry stone. Inside, it is easy to get lost in the corridors to find the most unique tombs to which small metal plates have been placed revealing the stories...

John J. Montgomery Obelisk in Santa Clara,...

September 11, 2020

In 1961, employees at the Lockheed Corporation, part of what is now the aerospace company and the world’s largest defense contractor Lockheed Martin, paid a peculiar tribute to a Bay Area inventor. They helped reconstruct the machine that killed him. A better tribute might be this gray obelisk at Santa Clara University, which commemorates a spectacular display he provided for the people of Santa Clara. John J. Montgomery, one of several “fathers of aviation,” died in 1911 while testing...

World Trade Center Artwork in London, England

September 11, 2020

Tucked away in a quiet corner of London‘s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, a little-known sculpture stands as a reminder to one of the most tragic episodes in United States history. The monument honors those lost during the 9/11 attacks, which claimed thousands of lives including 67 Britons. The sculpture was crafted by American artist Miya Ando and is composed of steel columns recovered from ground zero at the World Trade Center. It was gifted to the United Kingdom by the...

Silent Pool in Albury, England

September 11, 2020

The Silent Pool is a spring-fed lake at the foot of Surrey’s North Downs. Its peaceful and kaleidoscopic waters has attracted visitors for centuries. The silent pool is known for its otherworldly stillness which, combined with the surrounding screen of evergreen trees, gives it an ethereal feeling throughout the year. It’s no surprise that this ancient lagoon has given rise to fantastical legends. It’s said that during the early 13th-century, a local girl would often bath in the pool...

Chromium Mill Ruins in Red Lodge, Montana

September 11, 2020

Commonly mistaken as the remains of the East Side Mine from the town of Red Lodge’s former mining heyday, this three-tiered concrete foundation is actually the remains of a chrome concentration mill that was built in the early 1940s and operational for less than a year. As early as 1916, chromite deposits were discovered just outside of the town of Red Lodge in the Beartooth Mountains, near where sections of the Beartooth Highway reside today. During the early 20th century,...

When Prehistoric Lacewings Disguised Themselves as Middle-Jurassic...

September 10, 2020

Around 165 million years ago, the land that is now the fossil-filled Jiulongshan Formation, near the village of Daohugou in Inner Mongolia, was covered with lichens, mosses, and liverworts. Above that shaggy, pillowy surface was a wash of green: fern fronds, conifers, and ginkgophytes, including vanished relatives of modern gingkos. (It looked a bit like the present-day Olympic Peninsula in western Washington—lush, with nary a petal in sight.) Flowering plants wouldn’t show up for another 40 million years, but...

Japan Is Combating Rural Decline With a...

September 10, 2020

If you ask Lynn Ng which flavor of soft cream is her favorite, she’ll probably say scallop. “It’s actually really delicious despite seeming like such an incompatible mix,” she says. Three years ago, Ng and I worked together as assistant language teachers at a technical high school in Hokkaido. This meant we spent weekends on the roads of Hokkaido in her blue Passo. Hokkaido is Japan’s northernmost prefecture, an island comprising more than 20 percent of the nation’s landmass...

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