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Nathaniel Dett Memorial Chapel in Niagara Falls,...
Long before Deadmau5 and Honeymoon Suite became notable musical exports from Niagara Falls, a composer, organist, and music professor named Robert Nathaniel Dett did his part to change the image and direction of Afrocentric music in the early 1900s. Dett showed his flair for music at an early age. Encouraged by his mother, Dett started taking piano lessons at age five. Years later, while studying at the Oberlin Conservatory, Dett heard the music of Antonín Dvořák and was inspired...

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Turning On the Lights in the Ocean’s...
Many fathoms below the surface of the sea, mysteries still abound—mostly invisible to human eyes. Sunlight disappears and water pressure mounts, making the deep sea one of the least explored and understood environments on the planet. Even today. Still, humans have found ways to sate their curiosity, from diving bells (first envisioned by Aristotle) to scuba gear to remotely operated vehicles, and the 4K video cameras they now carry. The latter technology has enabled a group of Australian scientists...

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Statue of Jack the Pardoned Turkey in...
Though the modern tradition of an American president officially pardoning a turkey at Thanksgiving began with George H. W. Bush in 1989, the idea is believed to have originated with Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln’s pardoned turkey was actually gifted to the First Family in 1863, just a month after the president declared Thanksgiving a national holiday. Though meant to be Christmas dinner that year, the turkey was quickly adopted by Tad Lincoln, the president’s 10-year-old son. Tad named the bird...

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Hodota Burial Mounds in Takasaki, Japan
Built between the third and seventh centuries, kofun are ancient Japanese burial mounds that served as elaborate tombs for powerful clans. The most common form of kofun was the zenpō-kōen-fun, a massive tomb erected in the shape of a keyhole. While it’s estimated that there are over 160,000 kofun scattered throughout Japan (with 700 in Tokyo alone), they’re quite difficult to spot; to the untrained eye, they may look like mere mounds of earth. For this reason, the burial...

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Litlington White Horse in East Sussex, England
This large white horse consists of six tons of chalk and is approximately 93 feet long and 65 feet high.  According to the National Trust, the first figure was originally crafted by four men in 1836. It was carved again in 1924 by one of the original creator’s grandsons. The technical term for this type of figure is a geoglyph. The predecessor to this amazing creation is the Uffington White Horse.  The reason behind the creation of the Litlington White...

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Hodota Tombs in Takasaki, Japan
Built between the third and seventh centuries, kofun are ancient Japanese burial mounds that served as elaborate tombs for powerful clans. The most common form of kofun was the zenpō-kōen-fun, a massive tomb erected in the shape of a keyhole. While it’s estimated that there are over 160,000 kofun scattered throughout Japan (with 700 in Tokyo alone), they’re quite difficult to spot; to the untrained eye, they may look like mere mounds of earth. For this reason, the burial...

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Romito Cave in Bivio Avena O Vuccale,...
Located inside Pollino National Park, the largest protected area in Italy, Romito Cave is the site of important research into early humans, an archaeological park that explains it, and a large carving of a bull that’s estimated to date back at least 12,000 years. Since its discovery in 1961, the cave has intrigued researchers, who estimate that it was inhabited since the end of the Paleolithic era. In addition to the bull carving, which depicts an auroch (a type...

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20 Hotel Website Mistakes To Fix To...
The hospitality industry has strong competition and the rivalry for guests is going to be even more fierce these days. Hotels compete online for guests not only with other hotels but with other players, such as OTAs and Search Engines Hotel Markets. Therefore, hotels should ensure that their website attracts customers. In this article, you’ll The post 20 Hotel Website Mistakes To Fix To Avoid a Low Conversion Rate appeared first on Revfine.com.

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Cedergrenska Tower in Stockholm, Sweden
Cedergrenska Tower of the Danderyd commune is an excellent example of the desire to construct elaborate medieval architecture by the wealthy during the late 19th-century. Construction on the Cedergrenska Tower began in 1896 and the exterior took around 12 years and three different architects to complete. The project was the brainchild of Albert Gotthard Nestor Cedergren, a hunter with a large family fortune that he could spend on acquiring land and building the structure.  The tower was designed to...

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The Strangely Quiet Afterlife of a Brazilian...
The village of Dois Rios is home to one church, two restaurants, zero grocery stores, and about 90 residents living among dozens of buildings that are being swallowed by the tropical forest. It sits 100 miles west of Rio de Janeiro on the southern coast of a rugged, largely untouched island called Ilha Grande, where a small plain breaks the mountainous landscape. Despite the lush, encroaching canopy, the buildings are not hard to find. They are scattered among the...

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The Lost Art of Growing Blueberries With...
By the time Europeans first made contact with the Passamaquoddy tribe along the rugged coastline of what is now Maine, fire had been an agricultural tool there for centuries. Between summertime harvests, tribes burned the unforgiving, rocky terrain from which blueberries sprung forth, a custom that encouraged the new growth of what was, to many Indigenous people, a sacred fruit. Colonizers carried on the stark tradition, and burning blueberry fields by hand, with help from family, friends, and neighbors,...

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Nike Missile Site HA-26 in Glastonbury, Connecticut
Unbeknownst to many Connecticut residents, the small state was home to no less than 12 Nike Missile sites during the Cold War. Designed to protect the United States from Russia, the installations were constructed in two parts: a control/radar site and a launch site. The HA-26 launch site is located in Glastonbury, with its control/radar site Portland. Both are easily accessible on a long road in Meshomasic State Forest. The HA-26 site was in operation from 1956 to 1963...

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Why Doesn’t Iceland Have a Museum of...
It’s already there in the language: the way safn is both a collection and a museum, and part of the Icelandic word for library, and a term one might use to describe a group of sheep. It’s there, too, in how sets of things in the parlor have a way of moving outside the home—to sloping mountainside yards, to lakeside sheds, to downtown storefronts. It’s the Icelandic predilection for museums, for turning private collections into public displays—evident in places...

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Berlin Wall in Singapore in Singapore
November 9, 2019, marked the 30th anniversary dismantling of the infamous Berlin Wall. This bastion of of division surrounded a portion of the city, separating an enclave of Western capitalism from surrounding communist East Germany. Since then, parts of the wall have been sold or distributed across the world. These two graffiti-splashed slabs found their way to Singapore in October 2016, a gift from Germany to commemorate 50 years of bilateral diplomatic relations. They now reside on a secluded hillock outside...

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Kelmscott Manor in Kelmscott, England
William Morris was one of the greatest artists of the Victorian era, who is commonly known for his textile designs. However, Morris was also a prolific writer, poet, translator, and social activist. His medievalist novels are considered one of the earliest examples of the high fantasy genre, directly influencing J. R. R. Tolkien. From 1871 until his death in 1896, Morris mainly lived in a limestone manor house in the Cotswolds village of Kelmscott called Kelmscott Manor. It was...

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