Vandals Destroy 8,000-Year-Old Aboriginal Art in Australia
Vandals destroyed 8,000-year-old Aboriginal artworks is Tasmania. https://t.co/Uy7WCEpvqspic.twitter.com/4VZ8aOFYt3— Smithsonian Magazine (@SmithsonianMag) June 8, 2016Aboriginal ochre stencils,...
View ArticleWatch Humans Work Together to Rescue a Canine Friend
When you're a canine, sometimes you get yourself into predicaments. Some predicaments that you get into are not a huge deal, like getting gunk on your paws or being saddled with the dreaded electronic...
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Cypress Hills Taxidermy Studio in Queens, New York
In the early 1900s, taxidermy was a thriving industry in New York City. The taxidermists who handled Theodore Roosevelt’s prey and the great African elephants in the American Museum of Natural History...
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Australia's Famous Waverly Cemetery Could Fall Into The Sea
RIP, but not for much longer. (Photo: Mary and Andrew/CC BY 2.0)Australia’s cliffside Waverly Cemetery is one of the most iconic graveyards in the world with burial sites edging up against a severe...
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Susan B. Anthony Museum & House in Rochester, New York
In 1872, Susan B. Anthony lead fifteen other women from this house at 17 Madison Street to a polling place around the corner on West Main Street (a barbershop, at the time), to demand to be allowed to...
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The Farmer Who Sold Millions in Fake Organic Seeds Is Now Headed to Prison
(Photo: Buelldm/GNU)The inspector for the Idaho State Department of Agriculture was confused. A manager at the Caldwell, Idaho, plant he was inspecting in March 2015 had just stated that a farmer named...
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Lake Tear of the Clouds in Keene, New York
At an elevation of over 4,000 feet, Lake Tear of the Clouds is the highest lake in the state of New York, a source of the Hudson River, and one of the most inconvenient places one could be upon...
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According to Russia, Video Games are Definitely a Sport
Gamers participate in a 2012 eSports tournament. (Photo: Zone eSports/CC-BY-2.0)Russian gamers, time to pop the champers and lock the door—there's cause for celebration. In an announcement released...
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Keith Haring's 'Once Upon a Time' Bathroom Mural in New York, New York
If you've lived long enough you've probably seen a simple line drawing of a penis scrawled somewhere on a bathroom wall, or a building, or a textbook, or well, you get the idea. This is not out of the...
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The Faerie Playhouse in New Orleans, Louisiana
This Creole cottage became the home of Stewart Butler and Alfred Doolittle in 1979 and was the site of many organizing meetings in the LGBT civil rights movement during the late 20th Century and early...
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Destination Club in Beijing, China
Given China's draconian cultural regulation, it would be easy to assume that this censorship extends to the LGBT scene, but Beijing's Destination Club proves that this is simply not the case.This major...
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Alan Turing Memorial in Manchester, England
The famed Alan Turing was a man of many geniuses. From mathematics to cryptography to computer science, Turing was a visionary thinker in each field leaving a legacy that has had a part in most of our...
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Beaudry Metro in Montréal, Canada
The colorful Beaudry Metro station is one of the prime examples of the progressive and liberal environment rumored to be found in Montreal. The station opened at the end of 1966, and is on the green...
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Laser Technology Reveals Cambodian Civilization that 'Rewrites History'
Angkor Wat is the most recognizable ruin in Cambodia, but the CALI project has revealed there's much more to be found in the jungle. (Photo: Aleksandr Zykov/CC-BY-SA-2.0)Last year, the Cambodian...
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Detroit's 'Sexiest Anarchist Collective' Is Getting Bigger
A portion of the existing Trumbullplex property. (Photo: Cristina Naccarato/CC BY 2.0)Detroit’s self-titled, “Sexiest Anarchist Collective,” Trumbullplex, has just increased their land holdings after...
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Found: A 2,000-Year-Old, 22-Pound, Still-Edible Hunk of Bog Butter
Very old butter. (Photo: Cavan County Museum)In Emlagh bog in County Meath, Ireland, which was once at the juncture of three different kingdoms, a turf cutter has found a giant knob of “bog butter,”...
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Tall Travel Tales from 17th-Century Mexico, Mapped
Careri borrowed the map, along with other knowledge, from New Spain local Don Carlos de Siguenza. (Image: Harvard Library/Public Domain)Giovanni Francesco Gemelli Careri was the original disillusioned...
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Biryani is Better Than Americans Know
Hyderabadi chicken biryani, a fragrant mix of rice, spices and meat. (Photo: Garrett Ziegler/CC BY 2.0)Within the Indian subcontinent, the spiced rice and meat dish known as biryani is not just a...
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Hidden Cave at Grimes Point in Fallon, Nevada
There is a cave near Fallon, Nevada that’s basically a garage. A 3,500 year old garage that stored tools, spears, baskets, and fishing gear, and other stuff for millennia.Aptly called Hidden Cave, the...
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The Eccentric Father of Early American Taxidermy Practiced on Ben Franklin's Cat
The Artist in His Museum, a self-portrait by Charles Willson Peale. (Photo: Philadelphia Museum of Art/Public Domain)Birth, death, decomposition, and a return to the earth—the endless cycle of which...
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