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The Enduring Enigma of Alien Big Cats

May 30, 2024

In the summer of 1917, while war raged abroad, the town of Monticello, Illinois, just northeast of Decatur, found itself under siege by an inexplicable, foreign terror. On the night of Friday, June 13, Thomas Gullett, a butler, was out gathering flowers on Robert Allerton’s large estate just west of Monticello, when something emerged from the shrubbery and attacked him. The beast, Gullett later claimed, was an African lion: It pounced on the butler, toppling him to the ground,...

The James Dean Museum and Garfield Museum...

May 30, 2024

Garfield the cat, one of the world’s most recognizable and merchandisable comic strip characters, was brought to life by a rural Indiana cartoonist. From those humble origins, Garfield has grown into the world’s most syndicated comic strip, running in thousands of newspapers for the last several decades. The comic strip’s author, Jim Davis, also happens to come from the same part of Indiana as another pop culture phenomenon: James Dean. Together, these two are commemorated in one single small museum in...

Temple 2000 in Manchester, England

May 30, 2024

People familiar with the history of Rolls-Royce may know that the founders of the company, Charles Steward Rolls and Henry Royce, first met at the Midlands Hotel in central Manchester in 1904, and multiple commemorations at the hotel mark this event. However, far fewer people may be aware of the location of the factory where Henry Royce first built the company’s automobiles. This factory was located just south of Manchester City Center in the suburban area of Hulme. Henry...

Hao-Hao Tunnel in Kamakura, Japan

May 30, 2024

A crimson archway appears on the face of a cliff as the Yokosuka Line train reaches Kita-Kamakura Station. Painted in exotic, Chinese style, the “gate” and the tunnel it leads into look somewhat out of place in the quaint neighborhood. Despite its recognizable appearance, few venture to discover what it is as it is a little (if just a few minutes walk) off the more tourist areas. Originally, the tunnel served as a shortcut to the station from the...

AdAmAn Alley in Colorado Springs, Colorado

May 30, 2024

For 100 years, a group of mountaineers in Colorado Springs has been summiting Pikes Peak and setting off fireworks at the top. Fred and Ed Morath, Fred Barr, Harry Standley, and Willis McGee made that first explosive voyage in 1922. Many decades later, the AdAmAn Club carries on their legacy. Each year on December 30 and 31, the club adds one new member; Each year, they summit the mountain and set off New Year’s Eve fireworks that can be...

How Crossword Creators Make our Favorite Word...

May 30, 2024

Brooke Husic and Natan Last, two of today’s most prolific and influential crossword constructors and editors, are similar in many ways: both are Brooklyn-based, both love the Knicks, both are (unsurprisingly) ringers at trivia nights. They’re part of the in-house constructing team for the New Yorker’s crossword puzzle, and they teach Atlas Obscura’s popular course on making crosswords, the next session of which will be held in September. Yet they arrived at crosswords from very different paths. Last grew...

Podcast: Looking Toward the Sky with Summer...

May 30, 2024

Listen and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. In this episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, telescope tourist, rocket scientist, and STEAM educator Summer Ash gives us the nitty gritty on the V.L.A., a 22-mile telescope in New Mexico whose formal name is literally “Very Large Array.” We talk about how this observatory works and what cosmic wonders it’s detected. Our podcast is an audio guide to the world’s wondrous, awe-inspiring, strange places. In...

Should Sales Teams Receive Revenue Management Training?

May 30, 2024

Question for Our Revenue Management Expert Panel: Should Directors of Sales be trained in Revenue Management? How would it affect their understanding of Revenue Management complexities, their results & strategy? (Question by Connor Vanderholm) Our Revenue Management Expert Panel Connor Vanderholm – CEO, Topline Tanya Hadwick – Group The post Should Sales Teams Receive Revenue Management Training? appeared first on Revfine.com.

Mazalae Mongolian Restaurant in Morton Grove, Illinois

May 29, 2024

Let’s get something out of the way: Mongolian barbecue is not Mongolian. Not even a little. It was invented in Taiwan in the early 1950s, based on Chinese cooking techniques and global ingredients, and given the name almost at random. For the small but growing population of Mongolians in the United States, restaurants with names like “Mongolian Grill” have long been a point of contention. If you want to try traditional Mongolian cuisine, there’s only a handful of restaurants...

Church of San Michele in Anacapri, Italy

May 29, 2024

The Church of San Michele, completed in 1727, is a sanctuary of Neapolitan Baroque art. The altar is an elaborate marble structure crafted by Agostino Chirola, and above it is a dramatic depiction of St. Michael the Archangel by Nicola Malinconico. But the most striking feature of the church is its floor, which is covered in a stunningly detailed mosaic by Leonardo Chiaiese called The Expulsion of Adam and Eve. The titular event takes place in the center of...

Chickasha Leg Lamp in Chickasha, Oklahoma

May 29, 2024

In the 1983 classic A Christmas Story, chaos breaks out in the family when Mr. Parker, the narrator’s father, receives an enormous lamp fashioned to look like a fishnet-clad leg balanced on a stiletto. More than a generation later, in November 2022, the small town of Chickasha, Oklahoma, erected a 40-foot-tall replica of the famous lamp, which rests atop a 10-foot-tall box marked “FRAGILE,” or as Mr. Parker says in the film, “Fra-gee-lay! It must be Italian.” So how did this...

Stellafane Observatory in Springfield, Vermont

May 29, 2024

Stellafane is the home of the Springfield Telescope Makers, the oldest and most active telescope-making club in the world. The club was founded by the brilliant polymath Russell W. Porter in 1920, and the pink clubhouse was built at this Vermont site in 1923. Porter suggested the name Stellafane, which combines the Latin words stella and fanum to mean “Shrine to the Stars.” It’s the site of the annual Stellafane Convention, a gathering of the nation’s amateur astronomy community....

Plate Tectonics Has a Surprise Silver Lining

May 29, 2024

I imagine that exceedingly few people like to be unexpectedly jostled about by an earthquake. Whether you’re in an area known to be frequented by modestly powerful temblors, or whether you’re chilling out somewhere that isn’t especially prone to them—say, New York or New Jersey—it can be a disquieting experience. Earthquakes are also famously destructive: If they strike in just the right place, with sufficient shaking, they can ruin villages, towns, even cities and, should they trigger a tsunami,...

Meet The Black Cowboys Who Shaped Colorado...

May 29, 2024

Willie Kennard wasn’t sure what to expect when he walked into the saloon across the street. He knew just two things: One, there was a wanted murderer inside. And, two, it was his job to arrest the man. The year was 1874. Kennard had just ridden into Yankee Hill, Colorado—a small mining outpost near modern-day Idaho Springs—to inquire about a job posting for town marshall. But as soon as he did, the men hiring for the role burst out...

Podcast: The Giant Orange Sphere

May 29, 2024

Listen and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. In this episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, CANADALAND host Jesse Brown introduces Dylan to a strange and decaying Quebecois fast food institution… housed inside a giant orange sphere. Today, the orange is a relic of a bygone era. But decades ago, this odd establishment was on track to become the McDonalds of Canada. We hear about the rise and fall of Montreal’s Orange Julep, and...

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