Travel Archives - Page 528 of 546 - BRANDMOIAHORA

Say WOW

Suborbital space tourism finally arrives | FCC prepares to run public C-band auction | The big four in the U.S. launch industry — United Launch Alliance, SpaceX, Blue Origin and Northrop Grumman — hope to be one of two providers that will receive five-year contracts later this year to launch national security payloads starting in 2022. | China’s launch rate stays high | The International Space Station is the largest ever crewed object in space.

Everything is a Brand

Sister Louisa’s Church of the Living Room...

June 2, 2020

Known to its most devout patrons as Church Bar, or simply Church, this beloved institution’s walls are plastered with faux-religious pop art, velvet posters of Jesus, and pithy inspirational quotes celebrating its unique brand of defiant independence. Church is the brainchild of Grant Henry, who now goes by the moniker of Sister Louisa—a former divinity school student who opened the dive bar after growing disillusioned with theology. The decor draws heavily on Southern Baptist iconography, striking a delicate balance...

Keyhole Arch at Pfeiffer Beach in Big...

June 2, 2020

Down a narrow, one lane dirt road in Big Sur, California, lies a secluded beach hidden by large, steep cliffs. The cliffs keep a beautiful rock formation known as Keyhole Arch hidden from the hustle and bustle. Located just off Purple Sand Beach, Keyhole Arch is a natural hole carved into the rocks from the crashing waves around it. Every year around the winter solstice, for just a couple of days a beautiful light show happens at the Keyhole Arch....

Polesine Camerini Power Station in Porto Tolle,...

June 2, 2020

The Po River ends its long journey through northern Italy in a large delta, mostly located in the province of Rovigo. The area formed just in the last few centuries from sediment brought by the river, and it is now sparsely populated and protected as an interregional park. So it may seem surprising that a large power station was built in the 1980s near the very tip of the delta, on the Po della Pila branch of the river,...

In Antarctica, It’s Not Easy Being Green

June 2, 2020

Photosynthesis and Antarctica. It may not be the most intuitive combination, but the icy continent—famous for sculptural icebergs and marching penguins—is also home to communities of blooming algae, mosses, lichens, and even one species of grass. They’re rare, of course: Less than one percent of the entire continent is permanently ice-free to begin with. And what terrestrial vegetation does exist must rely largely on melting snow and ice for its water supply. It’s all part of a fragile ecosystem...

Find a Moment of Calm in These...

June 2, 2020

Cumulonimbus clouds often portend gnarly weather—but when spotted from satellites as they swell, the white, puffy, towering clouds look incredibly soothing. NASA’s Earth Observatory recently shared this image and time-lapse gif of the clouds building above China’s Hainan Island in May 2020. Consider it a few seconds of solace for world-weary eyes. Hainan Island sits off China’s southeast coast. Its waters appear tropical and turquoise, and its ground is thick with rainforest and stippled with mountains that rise above...

Street Musicians Have Turned Mexico City Into...

June 1, 2020

On a normal afternoon in an apartment in the Del Valle neighborhood of Mexico City, open windows let in a cacophony: taco vendors calling out to passersby, low-flying aircraft, loudspeaker advertisements from fruit trucks and junk trucks and gas trucks. But since coronavirus made its way to this prosperous community, vendors have been replaced by quiet grocery delivery men, button-downed professionals are now working from their condos, and kids ride bikes in the driveways of gated privadas instead of...

Rosalío Solano Museum of National Cinema in...

June 1, 2020

Despite its official name, this museum’s focus is almost exclusively on its namesake. Born in Bernal in 1914, Rosalío Solano (aka “Chalío”) is one of the most notable natives of this town. It should be no surprise then that the museum that honors his legacy is located in a privileged colonial building right in the town’s center. Solano’s career started under the tutelage of the legendary Gabriel Figueroa. He started shooting professionally with short films in the late 1940s,...

Soy Sauce Bottles of Sultan Mosque in...

June 1, 2020

Singapore‘s Sultan Mosque, designed in a Indo-Saracenic revival style, features two golden domes that impress from afar. Just below the domes are black rings of a slightly reflective material. A close look would reveal that the rings consist of the bases of black soy sauce bottles, sourced from poor Muslim families when the mosque was built. The current Sultan Mosque is the second on the same site. As part of the initial negotiations between Sultan Hussein and Stamford Raffles for the...

Bamberg Horseman in Bamberg, Germany

June 1, 2020

In the city of Bamberg in southern Germany, there is a mysterious statue. A young man sits atop a horse, a crown on his head and a cloak around his shoulders. This is the Bamberg Horseman, a statue that stands in Bamberg Cathedral. The statue was created by an unknown sculptor in the first half of the 13th century, and the figure it is meant to depict has been the source of debate for nearly 200 years. The Horseman is...

Cittadella City Walls in Cittadella, Italy

June 1, 2020

During the Middle Ages, the cities of Northern Italy were in a state of constant competition to control as much territory as they could. This was especially true during the wars of the communes of the 13th century, and city walls were erected to protect numerous towns during this period. Though many of those walls have crumbled, the walls around historic Cittadella still stand. The town of Cittadella was founded in a strategic position halfway between the rival cities...

‘Alice and the White Rabbit’ in Surrey,...

June 1, 2020

Lewis Carroll, the author of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, spent his last years in Guildford, Surrey. Carroll, whose real name was Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, is even buried in Guildford. So it’s no wonder that there are several Alice-related spots throughout the town. One monument to the town’s literary associations can be found on the lawn by the River Wey. Titled “Alice and the White Rabbit,” it was created by local sculptor Edwin Russell in 1984. It depicts the book’s famous beginning, in...

Unearthing the True Toll of the Tulsa...

June 1, 2020

This work first appeared on SAPIENS under a CC BY-ND 4.0 license. Read the original here. Just north of downtown Tulsa, Oklahoma, Greenwood once had one of the most successful African-American commercial districts in the country. By 1921, it was home to numerous black-owned businesses—beauty shops, grocery stores, restaurants, and the offices of lawyers, realtors, and doctors. Residents caught silent films and musical performances at the Dreamland Theater. They could choose between two neighborhood newspapers. Greenwood offered a place...

Pinula Aqueduct in Guatemala City, Guatemala

June 1, 2020

Following an earthquake in 1773, Guatemala decided to move its capital city from Antigua to a new location, one ostensibly safer from natural disaster. But the new chosen location needed a consistent water source. The nearest viable source of water was to be found from the Pinula River, some five miles from the city center. To transport the water, the architect José Bernardo Ramírez, who planned much of what would become Guatemala City, designed an aqueduct constructed of bricks and...

Scientists Need Your Sourdough to Solve a...

June 1, 2020

There’s something a little magical about sourdough. You mix flour and water, and in just a week or two, you have a starter that’s bubbling with invisible life. Humans have taken advantage of naturally occurring yeasts and bacteria to bake bread for thousands of years, yet we still know relatively little about these organisms. Do they come from the flour we use, or do they come from the water or the air or the bakers’ hands? How do different...

Cuernavaca Cathedral Murals in Cuernavaca, Mexico

June 1, 2020

At the insistence of architect Ricardo Robina, during the remodeling of the old Cuernavaca Cathedral, south of Mexico City, in 1957, layers of the walls were peeled back to the original stucco. The process revealed the remains of impressive frescoes. The paintings illustrate the history of the first Mexican Catholic saint, Philip of Jesus. According to history, he was traveling from Manila to Mexico to be ordained when his ship ended in up Japan. On suspicion of a plot...

528 of 546
« Previous
1
…
526
527
528
529
530
…
546
Next »

© 2021 BrandMoiAhora. All Rights Reserved

Powered by Curiosity