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China’s Water Forests Bring an Artificial Order...

May 25, 2020

The tufted, velvety green surface looks like a chenille pillow. Upon closer inspection, there are flecks of bright color embedded among the rows of green. The colorful bit are tourist boats leisurely meandering through waterways created by the neat rows of trees at Luyang Lake Wetlands Park in Yangzhou, in the Jiangsu province of China, one of many artificial “water forests” that now dot the country. This bird’s eye view obscures the towering scale of the pond cypress, bald...

Silver Springs Filling Station in Landrum, South...

May 23, 2020

Cross the border from North Carolina to South Carolina on Highway 176 and you will stumble across a retro replica of an Esso station named “Silver Springs Filling Station.” It has a traditional 1930s Wayne gravity-powered gasoline pump and a kerosene barrel as well. There is an outhouse back behind the building to complete the recreation. Standard Oil was broken up into dozens of companies in 1911. Standard Oil of New Jersey had control over New Jersey, Maryland, West...

Birthing Figure in Washington, D.C.

May 23, 2020

In addition to its beautiful gardens, Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, D.C., houses an impressive collections of Byzantine and pre-Columbian artifacts. It is also home to a fertility idol known as the Birthing Figure (sometimes the Dumbarton Oaks Birthing Figure), which may be familiar to fans of Indiana Jones. Carved out of scapolite and measuring about 20 centimeters (8 inches) in height, the idol depicts a squatting woman in the middle of childbirth. The sculpture was considered to be of Aztec...

Via Flacca Ruins in Sperlonga, Italy

May 23, 2020

Now that they have been swallowed by landslides and vegetation, the supporting structures of the once-spectacular Via Flacca are nearly unnoticeable. This ancient Roman road was built by the censor Lucius Valerius Flaccus in the second century B.C. As the nearby Villa of Tiberius shows, the coastline was a popular site for the wealthy to build their seaside villas. The road also provided an alternative route to pass the rugged coastline and the Aurunci mountains, connecting Sperlonga to the...

The Things Inside This 105-Year-Old Time Capsule...

May 22, 2020

Tim Frank was stressed out. Once conservators pried the time capsule open, he feared, they might find a mangled mess: a tattered flag, shredded papers, and a rollicking party of flies or silverfish. “My heart was racing through the whole thing,” he says. Frank is a historian at Arlington National Cemetery, the military burial ground in Virginia just outside Washington, D.C. On October 13, 1915, when construction was beginning on the Memorial Amphitheater, a memorabilia box was sunk behind...

Bosco Magnano Waterfall in Cropani, Italy

May 22, 2020

The region of Basilicata, in southern Italy, is maybe the most uncontaminated and less polluted region of Italy. This can be seen in the region’s many national parks and protected areas. Among these is Pollino National Park, which is the largest national park in Italy, between Basilicata and Calabria. Inside the park, there is a secret oasis, known only to the locals. Bosco Magnano is located between the mountains inside the Pollino National Park, halfway between the small towns...

This Seattle Arts Building Was Once an...

May 22, 2020

When Jayashree Krishnan was 21 years old, she walked through the doors of an imposing government building in Seattle’s Chinatown, hoping to become a citizen of the United States. The Immigration and Naturalization Service building had bars on its windows; it determined the fates of countless people, issuing green cards and passports while also detaining and deporting thousands. “The first time I was here, it felt very impersonal and cold,” Krishnan says. The building now stands transformed. What was...

To Work Out Like a Victorian Woman,...

May 22, 2020

Women who wanted to be fit in 19th-century Britain had their work cut out for them. Not only did they do cardio routines in the confines of their homes; they had to deal with an entrenched patriarchal society that sought to control their bodies. Literature on women’s exercise at the time was written almost entirely by men, and women were expected to work out in the outfits du jour—literally, dresses. Many of the exercises were therefore constrained, suited for...

Main Cathedral of the Russian Armed Forces...

May 22, 2020

Built in 18 months—a record for such a colossal project—this military-themed mega-church covers almost three acres of Patriot Park, and was consecrated on May 9, 2020, the 75th anniversary of the Victory Day, which celebrates the end of the Great Patriotic War (as Russia calls World War II). The gigantic church is designed in Russian Revival (also called pseudo-Russian) style, a trendy form in modern, eclectic Russian architecture, usually consisting of monumental “historical” details combined with gaudy modern elements....

Biatec Monument in Bratislava, Slovakia

May 22, 2020

It’s unclear who Biatec was. The name appears on the coins that circulated among the Celtic tribe of the Boii, minted in what is present-day Bratislava around 60-40 B.C. These rare ancient coins are also referred to as Biatec (or Biatex) by modern scholars. Although this has not been confirmed, it was likely the name of the leader of the tribe. Generally sizing 25 millimeters (just under an inch) in diameter and weighing about 17 grams, the silver coins were...

Contactless Payments Are Becoming More Important Within...

May 22, 2020

Contactless payment methods are becoming increasingly popular throughout the hospitality sector, and for good reason. They embrace some of the most cutting-edge technology while providing your guests with a more user-friendly experience. It is important to take a look at this concept in greater detail. What is a Contactless Payment? As the name suggests, this type of transaction enables users to avoid using cash or the physical implementation of credit cards. It instead relies upon wireless methods such as...

Contactless Payments Are Becoming More Important Within...

May 22, 2020

Contactless payment methods are becoming increasingly popular throughout the hospitality sector, and for good reason. They embrace some of the most cutting-edge technology while providing your guests with a more user-friendly experience. It is important to take a look at this concept in greater detail. What is a Contactless Payment? As the name suggests, this type of transaction enables users to avoid using cash or the physical implementation of credit cards. It instead relies upon wireless methods such as...

How the Black Death Gave Rise to...

May 22, 2020

“I’ll buy you a beer when this is all over,” declares Christo Tofalli, the landlord of Ye Olde Fighting Cocks, which lays claim to the contentious title of Britain’s oldest pub and is no stranger to pandemics. While closed, Ye Olde Fighting Cocks, in the historic city of Saint Albans, has become a Community Supply Point, providing much-needed groceries and offering free delivery to the elderly. They are even delivering Sunday Roast dinners to residents in lockdown. The threat...

Rocchetta a Volturno in Rocchetta Alta, Italy

May 22, 2020

The ruins of Rocchetta Alta dominate the remote valley of the Volturno River in the Appennine region of Molise, in central Italy. The original medieval settlement gathered around the impressively positioned Battiloro Castle, which was built to protect the nearby Benedictine Abbey of San Vincenzo al Volturno and initially owned by the Pandone family. Its misfortunes began as a result of intensive deforestation, which caused a number of landslides from the 1800s onwards. The landslides forced the inhabitants to migrate...

Spillings Hoard in Innerstaden, Sweden

May 22, 2020

In 1999, a film crew accompanied archaeologist Jonas Ström and numismatist Kenneth Jonsson to an unassuming farm on Gotland, Sweden’s largest island. After a farmer had discovered a Viking coin, roughly 150 coins and artifacts had been unearthed. The crew got the footage they wanted and left the site, but Ström and Jonsson stayed behind, continuing their unofficial search with a metal detector. In less than half an hour, the men discovered two massive caches of Viking treasure. They...

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