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World’s Largest Working Wooden Yo-Yo in Chico,...

July 9, 2020

Bird in Hand, a gift shop in downtown Chico, is home to the U.S. National Yo-Yo Museum as well as the largest functioning wooden yo-yo in the world. Modeled after Tom Kuhn’s No-Jive Three-in-One, the gargantuan yo-yo earned its place in the Guinness Book of World Records in 1982 as the world’s biggest working wooden yo-yo. Not even the strongest of yo-yo-tossing humans could take on this four-foot tall, 256-pound toy; only a giant crane has been able to...

Piè di Marmo (Marble Foot) in Rome,...

July 9, 2020

A colossal marble left foot is tucked at the end of a small alley near the Pantheon in Rome, giving the adjacent street, where it was originally found, its name: Via del Piè di Marmo (Marble Foot Way). The foot is actually four feet long, which has led archaeologists to believe that the complete statue must have been some 25 feet tall. The foot is believed to be a fragment of a colossal statue from the Temple of Serapis...

Europe’s New Mars Yard Is Like a...

July 8, 2020

Probably never before in the history of the industry has a maker of bridge cranes—the kind that are mounted on a gantry—been asked to slow one of its machines down. There’s a practical reason for that: The machines are usually used in factories and warehouses to move heavy things around and, after all, time is money. But the world of science doesn’t cling to the same view of time. “We contacted the company in charge of the bridge crane...

Found: A Letter From Frederick Douglass, About...

July 8, 2020

The debate over historical monuments currently roiling the United States is, in fact, nothing new. Back in 1876, none other than Frederick Douglass himself took issue with a Washington, D.C., statue of Abraham Lincoln, which activists are now lobbying to have taken down. Only now, however, do historians have proof of what Douglass thought of it when it went up. The statue in Lincoln Park, known as the Emancipation Memorial, depicts the 16th president beside a Black man who,...

Ghost Town of Rovaiolo Vecchio in Brallo...

July 8, 2020

Rovaiolo Vecchio is an ancient village in the mountains in the province of Pavia, halfway between Milan and the sea. Or at least it was. Before the construction of highways and railways, the road that passes through the town was of primary importance for the importing of salt to population centers in the Po Valley. One day in 1960, local officials ordered the immediate evacuation of the whole village: The mountain was sliding down onto it. Within a few...

Archaeology Dogs Can Help Scholars Sniff Out...

July 8, 2020

This piece was originally published in SAPIENS. On a sunny, cloudless afternoon in Croatia, a fierce wind known as a bora can whip over the Velebit mountain range and across the Adriatic Sea. When it reaches hurricane force, this cold, dry wind can render the steep, arid terrain freezing at midday. This coastal region is dominated by karst, a porous rock topography. Despite the area’s challenging conditions, humans eked out an existence here thousands of years ago. Archaeologist Vedrana...

KuKu Club in Tallinn, Estonia

July 8, 2020

In the cellar of a building in central Tallinn hides a tiny, cavern-like nightclub that was for decades a gathering place for Estonia’s artists, intellectuals, and activists. Its patrons and staff also played a role in the cultural uprising that led to the country winning its independence from the Soviet Union. The KuKu Club (KuKu Klubi) was established in 1935 in the basement of the Tallinn Art Hall, built by the local arts community to house galleries and studios...

400 Years After Its First Apple Farm,...

July 8, 2020

John Bunker normally searches for heirloom apple trees in the fields and forests of rural Maine, but on a trip to Boston, he stumbled upon one in an unexpected place: an ice-cream-parlor parking lot. An expert on American heirloom apples, particularly those of Maine, Bunker has been investigating, preserving, and growing nearly forgotten apple cultivars since he graduated college and immediately bought a parcel of Maine farmland in the 1970s. “I could spend the rest of my life studying,...

Pleasant Hill Memorial in Holly, Colorado

July 8, 2020

The day dawned clear and warm on March 26, 1931, when Carl Miller started his rounds, picking up the 20 children who attended one of the two small schools in Towner, Colorado. Miller, a farmer by trade, had converted a 1929 farm truck to a school bus. The children ranged in age from seven to 14. By the time the buses reached the school, at 9 a.m., the weather had turned. The temperature fell from about 70 degrees Fahrenheit...

Svörtuloft Lighthouse in Iceland

July 8, 2020

This lighthouse is situated on the westernmost part of the volcanic Snæfelsnes Peninsula. It stands around 19 feet (six meters) tall and boasts a fluorescent orange color. The lighthouse maintains spectacular views over the western coastline. This marvelous work of architecture resides at the end of a winding gravel road and was constructed around 1931. At the end of the road is a fork, and off to the right is the Svörtuloftsviti Lighthouse. Its bright orange color stands out...

La Picá de Clinton in Santiago, Chile

July 8, 2020

In April 1998, Chile hosted the second-ever Summit of the Americas. Presidents and prime ministers from throughout the Western hemisphere gathered to meet with their fellow leaders in Chile’s capital city of Santiago. After one summit session held at Santiago’s Municipal Theater, the assembled leaders began climbing into their limousines to return to their hotels. However, American President Bill Clinton deviated from his schedule and surprised his aides by heading to a nearby restaurant instead. The San Remo was...

Sopotnički Vodopadi in Sopotnica, Serbia

July 8, 2020

Sopotnički Vodopadi (Salt Waterfalls) is located a little over 10 miles (seven kilometers) from Prijepolje, in Sopotnica village on the west side of Jadovnik mountain. These magnificent falls were declared a natural monument in 2005. It’s composed of several cascading waterfalls, the biggest one is 82 feet (25 meters) high. There’s a footpath to the top and several water mills near the bottom where the River Sopotnica begins. According to legends, those living in the nearby village came to...

Let’s Get Digital: Creating a Smart Guest...

July 8, 2020

Coronavirus threw a lot of well-established routines and best practices overboard without warning. Within only a few months, almost every aspect of hotel operations had to be re-examined and updated in ways nobody would have predicted at the start of 2020. To help you navigate this transition, this article sums up actionable tips on how The post Let’s Get Digital: Creating a Smart Guest Journey for Your Hotel appeared first on Revfine.com.

Meet the College Student With 6,000 Takeout...

July 7, 2020

When Noah Sheidlower was 12 years old, his father handed him a menu from an empanada restaurant in Queens, New York, and told him to keep it in a safe place. Sheidlower, now a rising sophomore at Columbia University, still has that menu, and approximately 5,999 more along with it. Over Zoom, he waves a hand to show me menus heaped into plastic crates and piles in his parents’ house in Long Island, where he has lived since early...

The 90-Year-Old Virtuoso Keeping Naxi Music Alive...

July 7, 2020

Every night at 8 p.m., around 20 elderly musicians in formal purple gowns take the stage in Naxi Concert Hall, a 400-seat theater in Old Town Lijiang, China. Painted white cranes drift across the indigo walls. A young woman introduces the band in Chinese, then English, as the “Dayan Naxi Orchestra, reformed in 1981 by our master Mr. Xuan Ke!” Then come the thumping beats of the da gu, a drum as big as a person. The centuries-old instruments...

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