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Boardman’s Entry in Manchester, England
Just off Manchester's busiest shopping street, you’ll find Boardman’s Entry, a short passageway that features four metal umbrella tops hanging overhead. A strange sight you’ll agree, with no signage...
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The Olympic Committee Spent Years Concern-Trolling Women About 'Wandering Wombs'
The Swedish team at the 1926 Women's World Games in Göteborg, Sweden. (Photo: Bertil Norberg/Public Domain)In the summer of August 20, 1922, a crowd of 20,000 spectators cheered at a rare sight: dozens...
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The New York Public Library is Moving 1.5 Million Books to an Underground Lair
Starting in May 2016, library staff started bringing books into the lower level of the Milstein Research Stacks. (All Photos: Zach Gross)This summer, several times a week, a 30-foot truck filled with...
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Kinnitty Pyramid in Birr, Ireland
Pyramids have been used as burial tombs for almost 5,000 years, beginning with the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Djoser. A few thousand years later, a 19th century Irish nobleman may have seen the pharaoh’s...
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Is the Internet's Favorite Robot a Fraud?
Promobot. (Photo: Promobot)For a viral-aspiring Youtube video, this one starts off pretty boring.Three people, two men and one woman, are gathered around a table, which holds a computer broadcasting...
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Awa Odori in Tokushima-shi, Japan
Every year, in mid-August, some 80,000 participants and 1.3 million spectators descend upon the city of Tokushima for Awa Odori, a dance festival whose history goes back several centuries. For three...
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Peach Bottom Slate in Delta, Pennsylvania
Named after an 18th century Pennsylvania rock quarry, Peach Bottom slate was once hailed as the finest building slate in the world. For over a century, immigrant Welsh quarrymen and their decedents...
View ArticleWatch These Cardists Perform Artistic Tricks With Playing Cards
These nimble-fingered mavericks turn a deck of ordinary playing cards into a mesmerizing swirl of patterns and tricks. A small, but budding group of cardists (a combination of “cards” and “artists”)...
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Franklin Park's Overlook Shelter Ruins in Boston, Massachusetts
Sitting lonely and overgrown in Boston's historic Franklin Park, these puddingstone ruins were once one of the only buildings ever designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, the father of landscape...
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Bahá'í House of Worship in Wilmette, Illinois
This beautiful Bahá'í House of Worship in Wilmette, Illinois, just north of Evanston, is one of only eight Bahá'í temples in the world at present, the oldest Bahá'í temple still standing and the only...
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Abandoned Airfield Rangsdorf in Rangsdorf, Germany
The airfield in the city of Rangsdorf, located in Brandenburg just south of Berlin, opened in 1936 on the eve of the Olympic Games in Berlin. In the years that followed, the airport—now long empty and...
View ArticleBeacon Food Forest in
A community-driven 7-acre food forest within Seattle city limits that mimics a woodland ecosystem using edible trees, shrubs, perennials, and annuals. As the first large-scale edible permaculture...
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Hamilton Station Statues in Trenton, New Jersey
From the train station in Hamilton, New Jersey you can get to New York’s Penn Station in about an hour. If you commute from Hamilton you already know about the larger-than-life sculptures that will see...
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Heigold House in Louisville, Kentucky
The decorative ingenuity of the Heigold House façade’s original owner and builder, Christian Heigold, has endured over 175 years of flooding and potential effacement by municipal waste. It still stands...
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The Dangerous Origins of the Pentathlon, the Only Sport Created for the Olympics
Pentathletes competing in 2007. (Photo: U.S. Army)The ancient pentathlon, contested in the first Olympic games over two millennia ago, could be dangerous. Consisting of five events, the ancient sport...
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Meet the Pangolin, the Real World Pokemon You Didn't Know You Loved
This Sunda pangolin (Manis javanica) was rescued from poachers and is awaiting release into Cuc Phuong National Park in Vietnam. (All Photos: Suzi Eszterhas)A version of this story originally appeared...
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Melilla in Melilla, Spain
“Non-Iberian Spain” and “Plaza de Soberanía” are two of the terms used to describe Melilla, a small city near the Moroccan city of Nador—that is technically in Spain. Unlike other parts of Morocco that...
View ArticleWatch The World's Largest Aircraft Take Flight
Residents of Bedfordshire, England who happened to look up at the right time yesterday evening were greeted by a strange sight: a massive white aircraft, like two blimps stuck together, whirring...
View ArticleFound: Football-Sized Goldfish in an Australian River
Thinking of going all "Free Nemo" on your pet goldfish? Well, think again! #invasivespecies#IAShttps://t.co/wSdUtQhxFP— Marianne Kettunen (@makettunen) August 18, 2016Goldfish are everyone’s favorite...
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Toadstool Geologic Park in Harrison, Nebraska
In the midst of the Oglala National Grasslands lies a section of sparse desert where the effects of water and wind over millions of years have carved the dusty earth into dramatic, fantastical shapes....
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