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The Brazilian Desert That Turns Into a...

July 17, 2020

During the dry season, it’s not hard to see how Brazil’s Lençóis Maranhenses National Park got its snoozy name. Lençóis maranhenses is Portuguese for “bedsheets of Maranhão,” referring to a state in the northeast of the country and its endlessly undulating, whipped cream-white landscape—the largest field of sand dunes in South America. Without a guide, one can get lost easily in the vast territory of drifts that can reach over 65 feet in height. At first glance, the miles...

How Constructing Enormous ‘Log Jams’ Is Saving...

July 16, 2020

Cavin Park was working for the Quinault Indian Reservation’s invasive plant crew when he watched a towering crane stack logs 100 feet across the bed of the Upper Quinault River. Pile drivers 70-feet high stood against the backdrop of the foggy, spruce-filled woods that give Washington’s Pacific coast its spirit of mysterious beauty. The purpose of the construction project was to mimic nature: The workers formed log jams meant to restore the River’s ecosystem and its depleted blueback salmon...

Rocca di Piediluco in Piediluco, Italy

July 16, 2020

Piediluco is a small village on the eponymous lake in southern Umbria, near the cities of Terni and Rieti. The name originally derives from a sacred forest that the ancient Roman author Pliny described in his “Naturalis Historia”. It was a sacred woodland initially dedicated to the Sabine goddess Vacuna and later, during the time of ancient Rome, to the goddesses Diana and Velinia. The site was fortified during the Middle Ages, but its heyday came during the conflicts...

The Badass Black Cowboys of Compton, California

July 16, 2020

Richland Farms, a zoned agricultural area in the city of Compton, south of Los Angeles, has long fostered a vibrant equestrian community. In 1988, Mayisha Akbar created a horseback riding club for local Black youth to keep them away from gangs and violence. As members grew up, many kept riding, continuing a long and rich history of Black cowboys in the American West. Today, a close-knit group known as the Compton Cowboys celebrate this legacy on the very same...

The Well of the Miracle in Madrid,...

July 16, 2020

At the site that once held the house of the noble Vargas family, where Saint Isidore and his wife Maria worked as servants, little remains—only an old well built in the 12th century. Archaeological investigations between 1989 and 1997 had revealed the floor of the building, a cemetery, and this well, which held Spanish-Muslim pottery from the 10th and 11th centuries. Today it is a part of the Saint Isidore Museum, which covers the city’s deep history. Legend has it that one...

Saugatuck Chain Ferry in Saugatuck, Michigan

July 16, 2020

While chain ferries were popular in the past helping people and horses cross easy-flowing rivers, most of them were eventually upgraded to motor-driven cable ferries. Only in the city of Saugatuck, Michigan visitors have a once-in-a-lifetime chance to be ferried by a hand-cranked chain ferry. This particular chain ferry is the last of its kind in the United States. Saugatuck’s Chain Ferry has been operational since 1857, although the present ferry “Diane” was constructed in the 1960s. Surprisingly beautiful...

Laugh-O-Gram Studio in Kansas City, Missouri

July 16, 2020

Now an enormous media conglomerate, The Walt Disney Company began as a small animation studio in 1923. But years before Walt Disney and his brother Roy started the Hollywood-based company, they produced lesser-known cartoons out of a short-lived studio, Laugh-O-Gram, in their hometown of Kansas City, Missouri. Walt Disney founded Laugh-O-Gram when he was just 19 years old. He’d been commissioned to produce a series of short, animated clips called “Newman’s Laugh-O-Grams” that appeared in the newsreels played in...

Seurat at Saugatuck in Saugatuck, Michigan

July 16, 2020

In 1977, the head of the Wicks Park asked Carol Miron, who studied at the Art Institute in Chicago, to consider producing a “Saugatuck Seurat” on the walls of the restroom in the park. Saugatuck had just gained ownership of the park two years prior and wanted something memorable and artistic to reflect the creative character of its community. Miron recreated “Sunday Afternoon on the lie de La Grande-Jatte” by Georges Seurat, accommodating the windows and doors seamlessly of the...

Do These Tubes Hold the Oldest Known...

July 16, 2020

In the summer of 1901, the German anthropologist Berthold Laufer departed for China, having been assigned by the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) to gather cultural items for the museum’s collections. In 1904, he returned to the United States with the kinds of items one expects museums to collect, such as shadow puppets, manuscripts, and pottery. But he also came back with what might have been a historic first, and an accidental one at that: stereo recordings, which...

Why Do Marine Animals Love Gobbling Up...

July 15, 2020

The research vessel Polarfuchs, or Polar Fox, set out in March 2015 on a 20-month race against time. Filled with nets and biologists, the vessel wasn’t low on fuel or rushing to some far-off destination. Its hurry was a result of the cargo it carried: luminous moon jellyfish, or Aurelia aurita, which would expire if they took too long. So the Polarfuchs spent more than a year and a half speeding up and down Kiel Fjord, in northern Germany,...

The Internet’s Greatest Archive of Food History...

July 15, 2020

In 2015, New Jersey librarian Lynne Olver passed away at the age of 57 after a months-long battle with a rare form of leukemia. She left behind a husband, two children, several cats, and the internet’s largest repository of chronologized food history. The cats are taken care of, but the Food Timeline needs a steward. What the website lacks in pomp and flash is made up for in its legendary breadth. True to its name, Olver’s Food Timeline begins...

Wulff Castle in Viña del Mar, Chile

July 15, 2020

Gustav Wulff emigrated from Germany to Chile in 1881 and succeeded in building a fortune as a merchant. In the early 1900s, he acquired a piece of land in the growing resort community of Viña de Mar. By 1906, Wulff had constructed a home set in a dramatic location on a rocky, wave-battered promontory. Initially, the building was a somewhat ordinary home, designed with German and French influences and constructed mainly of wood. Later, Wulff began a long and...

Ayrton Senna Mural in Imola, Italy

July 15, 2020

The legend of Ayrton Senna has gotten much larger in the years since his passing. The Formula One driver, three times World Champion, lost his life in the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix of Imola. To celebrate his memory, his compatriot street artist Eduardo Kobra, crafted this huge graffiti memorial on the wall of the Checco Costa Museo Multimediale Autodromo di Imola (MAICC). The mural was completed in 2019 and depicts Senna looking at the sky. An important detail...

Pavillon de l’Esprit Nouveau in Bologna, Italy

July 15, 2020

Every time a major fair or exhibition ends, its pavilions are usually dismantled and become nostalgia, imprinted in memories and photos only. There are, however, some notable exceptions—in Knoxville, Tennessee, and Queens, New York, for example. The Eiffel Tower, built for the 1889 Universal Exhibition in Paris, should have been demolished, but instead became a symbol of the city known the world over. The 1925 International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts, also in Paris, was dedicated to the...

Isle of Farquhar in Roche Caiman, Seychelles

July 15, 2020

Isle of Farquhar, not to be confused with the Farquhar Group, which is a group of islands, is a three-mast schooner moored at Les Mamelles on Mahé, the largest of the islands in Seychelles. Built in 1909 in the Netherlands and originally named Zeemeeuw, this schooner changed owners, routes, and purpose several times before Captain Robertson Durup brought it to Seychelles, where it was used to carry labor, supplies, and produce from island to island. From its base there, Isle...

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