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6 Personalization Tips for Hotels to Increase...

June 8, 2020

Travel behavior has changed quite a bit in the last decade and the online booking journey has become more complex. Your website visitors have a lot of options for booking a place to stay on their next trip. You compete against other hotels, Airbnb, the many choices on OTAs and review platforms. In this article you will learn concrete actions you can take to provide a highly personalized guest journey from the first visit to your website to loyalty...

Basingstoke and Alton Light Railway in Basingstoke,...

June 6, 2020

The middle of a traffic roundabout isn’t the place you would expect to find a railway. And railways are normally longer than a couple of meters. But in the middle of the Viables Roundabout in Basingstoke, this is exactly what you can find. While it only runs for a few meters now, the railway once stretched from a station at the town center to a station in the nearby town of Alton. While Alton still has a railway station,...

Sunday Creek Coal Company Mine No. 6...

June 6, 2020

On November 5, 1930, a Wednesday morning tour by Sunday Creek Coal Company officials and customer reps was cut short by a massive underground explosion. Eighty-two men lost their lives in what remains the worst mining disaster in Ohio history. Company officials had wanted to display the safety improvements made to the recently acquired mine. Before the disaster, Mine Number 6 was said to be the Sunday Creek Coal Company’s best and safest mine in the Hocking Valley. The...

Bologna Centrale Station Clock in Bologna, Italy

June 6, 2020

On August 2, 1980, a neo-fascist terrorist group hid a time bomb at the BolognaBologna Centrale station, killing 85 people and wounding more than 200. It is one of the major incidents during the tumultuous Years of Lead, the period of social and political strife that lasted from the 1960s to the 1980s, and arguably the very worst of these. Some time after this massacre, a subtle controversy occurred concerning the station’s clock. In a 2010 study, local people...

LaGuardia Landing Lights Park in Queens, New...

June 6, 2020

This alliterative park in East Elmherst is unusual. It is littered with aviation guiding lights and cuts diagonally across several blocks before ending abruptly at the runway of LaGuardia Airport. The reason for these strange patches of park is none other that good old fashioned government regulation and a too-close airport. Because the property line of LaGuardia’s runway is so close to the nearby residential neighborhood in Queens, the airport’s landing lights extend out into the neighborhood next door....

La Gran Puerta de México (Mexico’s Great...

June 6, 2020

With works such as Ciudad Juárez’s X and the Guerrero Chimalli, the sculptor known as Sebastián (real name Enrique Carbajal) is considered the go-to figure for massive, government-funded public artworks in Mexico. A majority of these are monochrome abstract figures—often red—and La Gran Puerta de México is no exception. The Northern city of Matamoros, opposite the border from Brownsville, Texas, is the country’s easternmost northern border crossing. As such, it can be considered a gateway into Mexico, so it makes...

Remembering When Women Ruled a Wild West...

June 6, 2020

Picture, for a moment, Kamala Harris cleaning up a territory known for horse thieves and train bandits, Elizabeth Warren boosting the treasury tenfold, and Amy Klobuchar squaring off against her own husband in an election. Now imagine all these women running on a ticket together, throw in two more of your favorite female politicos, then pop the bubbly (or mountain moonshine) for their blowout victory. That’s essentially what happened, on a much smaller scale, a century ago in Jackson,...

How a Beer Historian Is Documenting COVID-19’s...

June 5, 2020

This year is the 100th anniversary of America going dry. In 1920, some 1,300 breweries in the United States faced the onset of nationwide Prohibition—a ban on alcohol sales that many expected to be repealed quickly, but instead lasted until 1933. When it ended, less than a quarter of those breweries remained in operation, and, although new brewers opened up shop, many of the survivors failed in the following years, while the rest were absorbed by major manufacturers like...

Irwell House Ruins in Prestwich, England

June 5, 2020

In the middle of a verdant park lie the scattered remains of a once grand Georgian manor. After the manor house was destroyed in a fire in the 1950s, only the outline of the walls and foundations remain to hold the history of Irwell House. The house was built in 1790 by the local industrialist Peter Drinkwater , who would go on to become the Lord of the Manor of Prestwich. Irwell House’s grounds covered many acres of rural land...

Wiesbaden Kurhaus Spielbank in Wiesbaden, Germany

June 5, 2020

Since ancient Roman times, the thermal springs of Wiesbaden have attracted people interested in the purported healing qualities of a hot mineral bath. As the town grew into a major spa destination in the 1700s, its wealthy visitors sought other forms of entertainment, and facilities appeared nearby for theater, music, and, above all, gambling. The first regulated card games were licensed in 1771. By 1810, Wiesbaden boasted a monumental spa-house to accommodate its bathers and gamblers. A stream of...

Appia Antica in Itri in Itri, Italy

June 5, 2020

Between the towns of Itri and Fondi, in southern Lazio, the valley of Sant’Andrea provided a natural passage through the harsh and wild Aurunci Mountains, now a protected area. In this valley you can find the remains of a section the original route of the Via Appia Antica. Consul Cladius Appius Caecus built the famous Roman road in 312 B.C., connecting Rome with Brindisi, on the southeastern Italian coast. One of the best preserved stretches of the Appia Antica...

To Work Out Like a Knight, Try...

June 5, 2020

With gyms, pools, and spin studios around the world temporarily shuttered, it can be hard to find ways to exercise the way we used to. Atlas Obscura is taking this time to look back at different groups from history, to see what lessons they might have for working out in ways that help us maintain social distance. If you were trying to get ahead in 15th-century France, being a renowned warrior was a pretty good way to do it....

How an Infamous Confederate Obelisk Finally Came...

June 5, 2020

Last week, as protests against police violence and systemic racism were spreading across the country, activists took aim at monuments around the American South. Some toppled a monument in Linn Park in Birmingham, Alabama, and covered the neighboring Confederate Soldiers and Sailors monument, a five-story obelisk, in graffiti. They communicated their distress in red and black letters, scrawling #BLM, the “Black Lives Matter” hashtag, across the monument’s base. They climbed the obelisk and tried to topple it, too. They...

‘Twisted House’ in Indianapolis, Indiana

June 5, 2020

This topsy-turvy house looks like it’s being supported by its own roof. The sculpture, called “Twisted House,” was created by John McNaughton, an artist whose work has been featured in Smithsonian collections and the White House. For over 35 years, McNaughton taught woodworking at the University of Southern Indiana. He created this piece in 2015, and it showcases his crafty woodworking skills. The house is crafted from cedar wood while the five windows contain glass. Even the flowers on the...

Iniskim Umaapi (Majorville Medicine Wheel) in Vulcan...

June 5, 2020

The first stones of this medicine wheel were placed over 4,500 years ago, making it is one of the oldest known manmade structures in Canada. It consists of a central cairn, linked to a surrounding circle by 28 spokes. Sometimes known as sacred hoops, medicine wheels have been used by Native American tribes for health and healing. They take different forms, including paintings, artifacts, and large physical constructions like this one. The Majorville Medicine Wheel was created by ancestors of the...

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