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To Protect a Recreated Native Village, California...

September 4, 2020

The ground was orange, and the sky was, too. Flame licked through the grass; the little fist of the sun, a gray cloud, and a jagged top of an evergreen were just barely visible through the smoke. The sloped sides of kotcas—triangular dwellings sometimes made of redwood—were visible in silhouette. These structures are part of Kule Loklo, a recreated Coast Miwok village that sits inside the Point Reyes National Seashore. Since a lightning strike on August 18, the Woodward...

The Bronze Relief of Edward Bright ...

September 4, 2020

Edward Bright was born in Maldon, Essex in 1721, where he remained throughout his life serving the town as a grocer and candle maker. He was considered an honest tradesman by his customers, genial by his friends, and popular amongst townspeople. But it wasn’t Bright’s kindly personality that distinguished him to those passing by his shop, but rather the fact that he was an extremely large man. By the age of 20, Bright weighed 335 lbs (152 kilograms), eight...

Defensiekanaal in Mill, Netherlands

September 4, 2020

In 1939, the Dutch dug a ‘Defensiekanaal’ as an anti-tank trench, lining the 80-kilometer-long canal with trenches and casemates, enclosures from which soldiers could fire their weapons. The result was a formidable barrier that was nonetheless breached the following year. On the day Germany invaded the Netherlands, May 10, 1940, a German armored train passed through the border, over the railway bridge at the River Maas and the little bridge at the Peel-Raam defense line, unopposed. (As the nearby...

Crooked Slide Park in Barry’s Bay, Ontario

September 4, 2020

Constructed during the early 1900s and utilized until 1910, this lumber chute was used to bypass areas of the river and creek during logging operations. This was done to prevent log jams along Byers Creek, a waterway filled with various bends. The lumber would float from the Barry’s Bay area of the region down the Madawaska River. They would then be received at the mills, processed, and sent to the market. Working in the lumber industry during this period was difficult...

Mary Hardy MacArthur Memorial in Norfolk, Virginia

September 4, 2020

The mother of General Douglas MacArthur, who commanded American forces in the Pacific during World War II, grew up in a Virginian estate called Riveredge. After it fell into disrepair, it was turned into a memorial built from brick from the once-elegant home. Mary Pickney Hardy was born in Norfolk, Virginia, and became Mary Pickney MacArthur when she married Arthur MacArthur Jr. at Riveredge. As MacArthur Jr. had fought for the Union in the Civil War, it caused a stir in the Southern...

Inside a Historic Observatory That Almost Went...

September 3, 2020

On top of a peak in Santa Clara County, California, in the vaults of one of the world’s first mountaintop observatories, around 150,000 photographic plates bear witness to the early history of modern astronomy. “It’s almost like Aladdin’s cave in there,” says Paul Lyman, a resident astronomer at Lick Observatory. “There are logs where astronomers record the discovery of entire new worlds. I found a record of Sputnik going over the observatory just two weeks after it had launched...

The Oldest Cookbook in Korean Was Written...

September 3, 2020

When Jo Gwi-bun married Yi Don in the 1980s, he handed her a book of his family’s recipes and insisted she use them. “Of course, I had never heard of the book before, and I had no idea how to read the text. It wasn’t even written in modern Korean!” the 71-year-old woman, now known as Lady Jo, exclaims. Lady Jo soon discovered the book was no ordinary compilation of family recipes. Instead, it was a centuries-old artifact credited...

Understanding the Majesty and Complexity of Great...

September 3, 2020

In Paris, situated a mile apart, are two giants of musical and architectural magnificence—epic voices that carry the passion, cultural tastes, and sound of their eras into the present day. The pipe organs of Notre Dame and Saint Sulpice have resounded for centuries, so when fire tore through the former in April 2019, some minds turned quickly to the fate of its cherished instrument. “Two miracles happened that day,” says David Briggs, an international concert organist and composer. “Nobody...

Hancock Ghost Town in Nathrop, Colorado

September 3, 2020

The town of Hancock was established in 1880. Just a year later, the settlement contained a train depot, telegraph office, and several restaurants. Various types of wooden shacks and cabins were constructed to house the nearly 200 people that called Hancock home. The town was constructed 11,000 feet above sea level, making life in Hancock particularly harsh. Many of the buildings were built to withstand the cold and snowy winter months. The saloons in the town offered cold laborers...

The Linford Barrows in County Antrim, Northern...

September 3, 2020

Linford Barrows are situated above the little settlement of Cairncastle in the Knockdhu Hills in County Antrim. The site lies in the town of Linford, hence its namesake. The region features incredible views of the Irish Sea and the village of Ballygally. It was the perfect area for a Bronze Age settlement. The Linford Barrows consists of two large adjacent circular mounds, each surrounded by a ditch and rampart called a ring-barrow, all dating back to the Bronze Age....

Bosco di Sant’Antonio in Pescocostanzo, Italy

September 3, 2020

Driving along the road from Cansano to Pescocostanzo, near the lower ridges of Majella National Park, visitors will suddenly find themselves driving through a stunning forest known locally as Bosco di Sant’Antonio. The forest and protected area covers over 500 hectares and was originally a lucus, a sacred forest dedicated to Jupiter, the Roman god of the sky and thunder. However, it was later associated with Saint Anthony and the small medieval hermitage built on the fringes of the...

The Golden Hand Sculpture in Mansfield,...

September 3, 2020

This 10-foot-high sculpture of a human hand was created by an artistic cooperative called BANK well over 20 years ago. It was crafted as part of a national cycling network project, organized by the charity Sustrans. From afar, it appears to be constructed of metal, however, it’s in fact made from fiberglass. The organization is no longer around, making it difficult to know the meaning behind the work of art. The sculpture provides an interesting focal point in the...

Shrine of Hercules Curinus in Sulmona, Italy

September 3, 2020

Upon its discovery in the 1950s, this site was initially believed to be the villa of the Roman poet Ovid, Sulmo’s most famous native. However, dedicatory inscriptions and votive material revealed a vast religious complex. Initially constructed by the local Peligni people, the site was built on a complex multi-leveled terracing system, like the more famous temples of Fortuna in Palestrina and Hercules in Tivoli. These radical architectural changes occurred after the Social War in 89 BC. The temple...

Why Jackie Robinson’s Hall of Fame Plaque...

September 2, 2020

Often, historical figures survive in our cultural memory as symbols rather than fully realized individuals. An overarching legacy sometimes ends up obscuring a body of distinct achievements, leaving us with a clear view of the forest but little sight of the trees. Jackie Robinson, it seems, may have been fearful of this happening to his legacy when he was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame, in 1962. At that time, Robinson requested that his induction plaque focus...

A 1500s ‘Miracle Cure’ Made From Trees...

September 2, 2020

In Renaissance Europe, people spent a considerable amount of time grumbling about syphilis—and, typically, blaming the scourge on foreigners, near and far. “From the very beginning, the disease was associated with the French, and its most common name was therefore Mal Francese or Mal Francioso, on the grounds that the French army was responsible for bringing this, among other calamities, to Italy,” write medical historians Jon Arrizabalga, John Henderson, and Roger French in The Great Pox: The French Disease...

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