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Suborbital space tourism finally arrives | FCC prepares to run public C-band auction | The big four in the U.S. launch industry — United Launch Alliance, SpaceX, Blue Origin and Northrop Grumman — hope to be one of two providers that will receive five-year contracts later this year to launch national security payloads starting in 2022. | China’s launch rate stays high | The International Space Station is the largest ever crewed object in space.

 
Across the Islamic World, the Ifrit Brings...
Imagine a world that exists parallel to our own, unseeable to the human eye and full of spirits with their own society, their own tribes and classes, their own laws and schools. Like in our world, some of them are good and some are evil. Like us, they feel passion and pain and joy and suffering. Now imagine that these creatures had the power to enter our realm, to walk among us, and even change the course of our...

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The Malaysian Penanggalan Haunts Pregnant Women and...
A young mother is rocking her newborn to sleep when suddenly the smell of vinegar fills the air. She quickly pulls the curtain back, and sure enough, the disembodied head of a woman is floating just outside the window, with long, finger-like tendrils slithering out toward her child. In a panic, the mother slams the window shut, just before the apparition reaches her, and breathes a heavy sigh of relief. While folkloric monsters are numerous in Southeast Asia, one...

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Great Camp Santanoni in Newcomb, New York
The Adirondacks is known for its sprawling rustic private summer homes known as Great Camps, but only one is publicly owned. Camp Santanoni constructed between 1892-1893, is a sprawling log building modeled after a Japanese temple. It sits at the end of a five-mile historic carriage road, on the edge of a mile-and-a-half-long lake dotted with islands and framed by mountains. The building itself is composed of 5,000 square feet of porch space that connects its rooms and forms...

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San Marino Jinja in Serravalle, San Marino
Shinto, or Shintoism, is a pantheistic and animistic religion that originated in Japan. Lacking a doctrine, it’s more a traditional culture rather than a strict religion for most Japanese people. Reportedly there are over 88,000 Shinto shrines in Japan, so spotting one in the country is rather easy, as most neighborhoods have a jinja (“shrine”) of their own. There are also several Shinto shrines across the globe, particularly in former Japanese colonies such as Taiwan, Palau, and Saipan, as well...

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‘Gadebuscher Münzschläger’ in Gadebusch, Germany
Before the advent of minting machinery, coins were individually crafted by hand. Referred to as hammered coinage, they were created by placing a blank piece of metal (called flan) between two dies. The metal was then struck on an anvil. During the late 16th-century, the town of Gadebusch was granted the right to mint and produced a number of silver coins for the Principality of Mecklenburg. The mint itself is not widely known due to its relatively short period...

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Pine Ridge Pet Cemetery in Dedham, Massachusetts
The Pine Ridge Pet Cemetery occupies approximately ten pastoral acres on the campus of the Animal Rescue League of Boston in Dedham, Massachusetts. The organization’s founder, Anna Harris Smith, established the cemetery in 1907 and envisioned it as a complement to a shelter for abused and neglected animals. It was also a retirement home for Boston’s working horses. It’s the oldest continuously operating pet cemetery associated with an animal welfare organization in the United States. Pine Ridge is the final...

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For Sale: The Entire Spycraft Collection of...
In September 1978, the Bulgarian writer Georgi Markov was killed in London under highly suspicious circumstances. The playwright had defected from his Soviet-allied home country in 1969 and spent the ensuing years appearing on American and West German radio programs, so his demise was always going to raise eyebrows. It was the cause of death, however, that stood out: septicemia or sepsis, a kind of blood poisoning, likely linked to a telltale puncture wound that had been found on...

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Resti del Ponte Romano (Roman Bridge in...
The Velino river scenically winds a slow path around the historical city center of Rieti, a town located in Sabina, north-east of Rome. When crossing the modern bridge (Ponte Romano or Ponte Velino) visitors will notice the sunken remains of an old Roman bridge in the waters below. The bridge, constructed in the opus quadratum technique, was designed after the conquest of Sabina by the Romans during the 3rd-century BCE. It was part of the ancient Roman road the...

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Tokyo Metropolitan Building Staff Cafeteria in Tokyo,...
There are a number of reasons to visit the Tokyo Metropolitan Government building. It’s the tallest city hall in the world, evokes a gothic cathedral wrought in metal, and includes observatories and gift shops. But don’t forget to grab a bite to eat at the staff cafeteria in Tower One, which is a cut above, as well as 32 stories above the ground.  Visitors are welcome, and menu items are often in both Japanese and English. A seat at...

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Sasabonsam Enforced the Rules of Renewal in...
Among the Akan people in West Africa, there’s a story of a hunter. He had come from a long, storied lineage, and knew the rules of the land. He knew when he could hunt, when he could not, and where he could hunt, where he could not. But one day, for reasons unknown, he resolved to flout these traditional rules and pursue a kill on a day when humans were forbidden to enter the forest. As he tracked his...

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The Proud, Demanding Vodyanoy Rules Russia’s Rivers...
During the reign of Tsar Nicholas I in the mid-19th century, there lived a farm laborer with three sons, the story goes. The youngest, Ivan, was foolish and lazy. When it was time to mow, he dropped his scythe and slept in the hay. When it was time to fish, he paddled around the lake and did not cast his net even once. One cold, dark spring night, Ivan was returning home from a nearby village, his boots thick...

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The Body Snatchers of Aboriginal Australia’s Legends
It was with bemused condescension that a 2018 financial news article reported on a unique challenge facing a mining company at a new site in Western Australia. According to local Martu lore, the massive dry salt bed was home to a tribe of human-eating monsters. This didn’t dissuade Reward Minerals. For the firm operating in the dusty Outback region of Pilbara, Lake Disappointment presented a lucrative opportunity—“the next Saskatchewan” of potash mining, for what it’s worth. But for the...

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11 Key Technology Trends Emerging in the...
Technology is a crucial part of the tourism and travel industry, helping businesses with day-to-day operations, while also improving the customer experience. For this reason, it is important that hotels, airlines, restaurants and other companies keep up with the latest technology trends within the travel industry. This is especially vital in the era of COVID, The post 11 Key Technology Trends Emerging in the Travel & Tourism Industry appeared first on Revfine.com.

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Castle Rock Badlands in Quinter, Kansas
Utilized as a landmark for Native Americans and European settlers for centuries, Castle Rock itself stands 70-feet high on the otherwise gently rolling western Kansas prairie. It’s all that remains after the erosion of what was once the floor of the Western Interior Seaway from the Cretaceous Period. This particular layer of rock is known as the Niobrara Chalk: lending its name to the University of Kansas’ Rock Chalk chant. The chalk is full of fossils from the sea such as giant clams,...

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