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The Roberto Clemente Museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Engine House 25, a retired fire station near downtown Pittsburgh, guards a collection of memorabilia, awards and photographs of one of the true heroes of the Steel City: baseball great Roberto...
View ArticleFound: 'Crazy Snake Worms' in Oregon
Invasive 'crazy snake worm' unearthed in Oregon https://t.co/CSmpNWIrHL— OPB (@OPB) August 11, 2016 Finding an invasive species that runs the risk of destabilizing your local ecosystem is never a good...
View ArticleWatch People Race Down a Hill After Cheese
During the Olympics, events appear up on our screens that never normally receive much airtime. Amid all the synchronized swimming and steeplechase matches in Rio, you might have missed another obscure...
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Wild Blueberry Land in Columbia Falls, Maine
There is no shortage of bizarre American highway pitstops, but there's only one that's in the shape of one of the three fruits native to the United States: the wild blueberry.Just off Route 1 in...
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Whale Bone Arch in Na h-Eileanan an Iar, Scotland
In September of 1920, the corpse of an 80-foot-long blue whale drifted into Bragar Bay, on the western Atlantic side of the Isle of Lewis. It had a harpoon in its head, trailed by 50 feet of rope. The...
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Whitby Whale Bone Arch in Whitby, England
In the 18th and 19th centuries the whaling industry was thriving in the seaside town of Whitby in North Yorkshire. Dozens of ships braved the Arctic seas off Greenland to hunt these elusive leviathans...
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Barrow Whale Bone Arch in Barrow, Alaska
A bowhead whale's jawbones sit on a beach outside Barrow, composing an archway to the vast Arctic Ocean beyond.Barrow is not only the northernmost city in the United States, but also the northernmost...
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Garst Museum in Greenville, Ohio
The Garst Museum in the small western Ohio town of Greenville celebrates the history of Darke County and famous Dark County natives such as Annie Oakley and writer/broadcaster Lowell Thomas, whose work...
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The Battle Over Net Neutrality Started With The 1920s-Era 'Hush-A-Phone'
The hourglass curve of this rectangular baffle muffles conversations on a candlestick phone so only the receiver can hear on the other end of the line. [Photo: Spark Museum of Electrical Invention]It's...
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George Marshall Medical Museum in Worcester, England
The George Marshall Medical Museum showcases an impressive collection personally amassed by (you guessed it) one George Marshall, an Edinburgh-born 20th century surgeon as well as an avid collection of...
View ArticleHigh School Students Unearth Ballista Ball from Ancient Jewish Revolt
Ancient ballista ball unearthed by students in Gush Etzion from Bar Kokhba… https://t.co/hiemdH97Py#IsraelNewspic.twitter.com/gzUSBsKeH7— The Jerusalem Post (@Jerusalem_Post) August 15, 2016Every year,...
View ArticleHemingway's Family Is Getting Some Antlers Back 52 Years After Hunter S....
Hunter S. Thompson Widow Returns Stolen Hemingway #Elk Antlershttps://t.co/HekpU6nIixpic.twitter.com/M2ZE13muLT— Backcountry Hunters (@Backcountry_H_A) August 16, 2016In 1964, a young Hunter S....
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Pike's Gut in Hanko, Finland
Just off the southernmost tip of the Finnish mainland sit Tullholmen and Kobben Islands. Huddling close to one another where the Gulf of Finland meets the Baltic Sea, the islands are separated by a...
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Gol Gumbaz in Vijayapura, India
Gol Gumbaz is a fabulously imposing structure, towering 51 meters above the surrounding city of Vijayapura and representing one of the most important examples of late-medieval Indo-Islamic...
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Northeast Ohio Is Built Like New England Because It Used to Be Owned by...
Cleveland's Public Square in the 1910s. (Photo: Public domain)If you look at a map of Connecticut, paying particular attention to town names, and then do the same to Northeast Ohio, you might get the...
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The Wildly Misunderstood Photos of Hitler in Disguise
The altered photographs showing Hitler in different disguises. (Photo: Universal History Archive/Getty Images)By 1944, the face of Nazi party leader Adolf Hitler had stared out at the public from...
View ArticleFound: A Secret Bunker Beneath an Indian Governor's Mansion
This tunnel is 150meter long 3meter wide and height is around 12 feet.Bunker is spread over area of 5000sq ft. pic.twitter.com/U5dqkkBwm7— Devendra Fadnavis (@Dev_Fadnavis) August 16, 2016You’d expect...
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San Francisco's 'Piano Pound' Seeks Homes For Orphaned Pianos
Kevin's adoption page at the Piano Pound. (Image: Piano Pound)It's a sad fact of modern life—when people move, they often can't take their pianos with them. These stray instruments, once beloved...
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Fillmore East in New York, New York
It was only open for three years, but in that short time the Fillmore East made an indelible mark on New York's rock scene in the 1960s. Housed in a former Yiddish theater, the concert hall sold out...
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10 Places Where You Can See Whale Bones Outside a Museum
You're supposed to swim IN the water. (Photo: hrnick/Atlas Obscura)Whales are some of the most mysterious, majestic creatures on the planet. While whaling is a despicable business that has been slowly...
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