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Wild Life: Prairie Dog Language

May 17, 2024

Each week, Atlas Obscura is providing a new short excerpt from our upcoming book, Wild Life: An Explorer’s Guide to the World’s Living Wonders (September 17, 2024). In the early twentieth century, some prairie dog towns stretched for hundreds of miles. Cowboys and naturalists passing through described acres of sociable rodents, who would pop out of the ground and greet them with high-pitched chatter. Those visitors didn’t know it, but they were being described in turn. These squeaks and...

7 Stories of the World’s Rarest Animals

May 17, 2024

In honor of Endangered Species Day, held each year on the third Friday of May, we found some of the world’s most elusive creatures in the Atlas Obscura archive. Meet Puerto Rico’s wide-eyed frogs, Finland’s freshwater seals, and Indonesia’s singing dogs—and the scientists and citizens working to protect them. Puerto Rico’s Most Adorable Frogs Live in Caves and Fight Like ‘Gummy Bears’ by Hannah Tomasy Biologist Samantha Shablin is on a mission to learn more about the “cryptic” coquí...

Inside One Family's Mission to Revive an...

May 16, 2024

Ty Walker squats on the grassy banks of a 150-foot-long, 10-foot-wide earthen pond lifting a net filled with thrashing young rainbow trout from the churning spring water. He nudges a pair of curious Great Pyrenees away, then carefully drops a dozen fish into a large bucket of water and hoists it onto a scale for his wife, Shannon, to log the results in a notebook. “We’re calculating average weights to get a bead on how fast the fish are...

Smart Hotel Technology; 7 Technologies to Smart...

May 16, 2024

Smart Hotel Technology Smart hotel technology describes all of the new technologies that can be integrated to enhance the hospitality sector’s operation and guest experience. Some examples include AI, robotics, IoT, and general automation. These solutions offer both practical benefits and help meet the expectations of tech-savvy guests. Key Takeaways Smart Room Controls: Apps can The post Smart Hotel Technology; 7 Technologies to Smart Up Your Hotel appeared first on Revfine.com.

Meetings and Events Online Booking and Marketing...

May 15, 2024

Question for Our Hotel Marketing Expert Panel How can hotels optimize the online booking process for Meetings and Events? And how can they best market it? Our Marketing Expert Panel Peter Ricci – Clinical Associate Professor and Director, Florida Atlantic University Cory Falter – Partner and Visionary at The post Meetings and Events Online Booking and Marketing Optimization Tips appeared first on Revfine.com.

7 Tips to Attract More Corporate Travelers...

May 15, 2024

Corporate travelers are a growing demographic and a target audience that many within the hotel industry are placing an increased emphasis on trying to appeal to. After all, a corporate traveler may use extra hotel facilities, return to your hotel multiple times and recommend it to colleagues and business partners. In this article, you will The post 7 Tips to Attract More Corporate Travelers to Your Hotel appeared first on Revfine.com.

Central Deborah Gold Mine in Bendigo, Australia

May 7, 2024

This location provides direct access to the gold mining underworld of Bendigo, which was responsible for Australia’s Victorian gold rush. In addition to the well-maintained surface facilities, this location offers explorers the option to go deep below the earth’s surface and travel through the upper levels of the gold mining tunnels picking up the local and global history and lingo along the way. If you are clever (and have small hands) you can even touch veins of gold still...

Eden V Shipwreck in Lesina Marina, Italy

May 7, 2024

Eden V, also known by the name Etsuyo Maru, was a Japanese cargo ship built in 1968. On December 16, 1988, the ship was grounded on the coast near Lesina Marina, despite not having sent a mayday call. The shipwreck has been left to rot for several decades and reportedly contained toxic and radioactive material. In 2014, local authorities had large parts of the wreck dismantled. To this day, the bottom of the hull is still stuck in the...

Uniwersytecki Bridge Hand in Wrocław, Poland

May 7, 2024

At the northern end of the Uniwersytecki bridge in Wroclaw, you might just miss this creepy hand that appears to be reaching out from between the stones that make up the bridge. As Wroclaw is said to be one of the most haunted cities in Poland, this hand may be connected to one of its many ghost stories. But very little is known about this concrete hand or the artist who created it. It appears to have been in...

Ima Market in Imphal, India

May 7, 2024

A brightly-colored bonanza of shopping, the Ima or “Mother’s” Market covers three large buildings in the city of Imphal, India. Established in the 16th century, the market hosts around 5,000 vendors who sell a variety of products, from fruit and vegetables to seafood and spices to toys and textiles. Like so many things in India, the market is administered by a union, in this case, made up of all of its vendors. There are a vast number of public markets...

Todoroki Valley in Tokyo, Japan

May 7, 2024

Though there is a lot of greenery even in the heart of Tokyo, from public parks to riverbanks, there remains only one natural gorge: the Todoroki Valley in Setagaya City. Carved by a river of spring water eroding layers of soft loam, the Todoroki Valley runs about half a mile through an upscale residential district, crossed over by the Kanpachi road at one point. The trail below traces the gentle curves of the stream, covered with a thick copse...

Ruins of the Ilha Grande Aqueduct in...

May 7, 2024

The forested island of Ilha Grande, located off the of the coast of Brazil, is largely undeveloped. But towards the eastern end of the island, just outside the village of Abraão, you can find the ruins of a stone aqueduct. Built in 1893 at the request of Emperor Dom Pedro II, the Ilha Grande Aqueduct stood 125 meters long and 30 meters tall. Now largely in ruins, the aqueduct once carried water from the Abraão stream to a nearby settlement. Next...

Le Char Duguay-Trouin in Dijon, France

May 7, 2024

The Sherman tank, known as Duguay Trouin, participated in the liberation of Dijon. On September 6, 1944, the tank, at the head of a platoon of five others in Dijon, was hit by two German anti-tank shells: three of the six men of the crew lost their lives there: Second Lieutenant Cattanéo, tank commander, Brigadier-Chief Petitbon, and Cuirassier Delaporte. Dijon was liberated on September 11, 1944. As a memory of these men and the reality of the fighting, the...

Jack Kilby Square in Great Bend, Kansas

May 7, 2024

Who can you count on when the chips are down? For one rural city in Kansas, the answer is easy. In the town square of Great Bend, visitors can find a bronze statue dedicated to Jack Kilby, the inventor of the microchip, who once called Great Bend home. Jack St. Clair Kilby was born in 1923 in Jefferson City, Missouri. His father, Hubert, became president of the Kansas Power Company, a rural utility company in Great Bend, and moved...

Garvan Woodland Gardens in Hot Springs, Arkansas

May 7, 2024

Just outside of Hot Springs, Arkansas, lies an extraordinary botanical garden. Built on a peninsula on Lake Hamilton, it has everything one expects in a garden of its size—large rose bushes, perfectly manicured tulip beds, a Japanese koi pond, an area dedicated to local flora, and so on. What sets this garden apart is that a large section is left in its natural state. As it is a “woodland garden,” much of the peninsula has been set aside as...

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