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Say Farewell to New York's Original Apple Store
An early Apple Mac computer, signed by Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple. (All photos courtesy of Jack Goodman)On a busy street just off 6th Avenue in the Flatiron district of Manhattan sits a humble...
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As the last days of summer break dwindle away, students begin to mill through stores to stock up on back-to-school supplies and prepare for the upcoming academic year. But, one of our favorite writing...
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Saint Anthony’s Church and Cemetery in Jaffna City, Sri Lanka
On the far northeastern beaches of Sri Lanka there is a tiny village called Manalkadu. It doesn’t see many tourists—and with only one battered unnamed road to get there, that’s not surprising. What is...
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Nobuo Fujita's Sword in Brookings, Oregon
Nobuo Fujita, a pilot in the Imperial Japanese Navy during the WWII, is known for having conducted the only wartime aircraft-dropped bombing on the continental United States. However in the years that...
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Plaster Citizens of Pompeii in Pompeii, Italy
Those that did not flee the city of Pompeii in August of 79 AD were doomed. Buried for 1,700 years under 30 feet of mud and ash and reduced by the centuries to skeletons, they remained entombed until...
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The Highest Court of the Land in Washington, D.C.
The US Supreme Court has always been known as the “Highest Court of the Land”, but there's one more court that sits even above the Supreme Court, literally - a basketball court.Aptly named “The Highest...
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The Incredible Ruins of 12 Abandoned Islands
Of all the many places around the world that have been abandoned by their inhabitants and left to slump into obscurity and ruin, islands seem among the most unlikely. What’s not to love about an...
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The Unlikely Story Of The Folly Cove Guild, The Best Designers You've Never...
Eino Natti's 1950 print "Polyphemus" shows a granite train at work. (Image: Cape Ann Museum)One by one, the prints unfold before you. One shows sheep leaping in the grass, another, children on a...
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FOUND: An Ancient Mexican Codex-Within-a-Codex
Top: the original page, Bottom: the document revealed beneath the surface. (Photo: Copyright © Journal of Archaeological Sciences: Reports, 2016 Elsevier/Used with Permission)Thanks to a new high-tech...
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Decades Before Oprah, Della Reese was the First Black Woman to Host a Talk Show
Della Reese performing on her show in 1970. (Photo: Bettmann/Getty Images)Depending on whom you ask, the name Della Reese conjures a different cultural memory. For most, it evokes Tess, the wry,...
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Thousands Leave Norwegian Church as Online Registration Backfires
The "Arctic Cathedral" in Tromsø, Norway—one of the many churches that about 15,035 people will no longer be attending. (Photo: Henrik/CC BY-SA 3.0)The internet makes everything easier. Sit down at...
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Let's Talk About Puffins
PUFFIN! (Photo: Richard Bartz/CC BY-SA 3.0)Right now, environmental groups are lobbying to designate the New England Coral Canyons and Seamounts, a marine area about 200 miles southeast of Cape Cod, as...
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Tunnels of Moose Jaw in Moose Jaw, Canada
Around 1908 an extensive system of tunnels were dug beneath Moose Jaw with the intention of running the city on steam power. These were quickly abandoned, and the city's underbelly moved in.First were...
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This Cartoonist Mapped the Tumultuous World of 1920s Greenwich Village
In the 1920s, Greenwich Village was a "little colony of temperamental intellectuals." [All photos courtesy of David Rumsey Map Collection]The countercultural reputation of Lower Manhattan’s Greenwich...
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Keeper of the Plains in Wichita, Kansas
The artist who created the symbol of the city of Wichita—the 44-foot sculpture known as Keeper of the Plains—had only a few years to appreciate what his monumental work meant for his adopted city....
View ArticleWatch Breathtaking Drone Footage From the Lofoten Islands in Norway
Clear blue water laps against an icy shore. Snowy peaks surround a mass of deep blue. Look down from a bird's-eye view of a small village and its red roofs are covered with a blanket of snow.Welcome to...
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Abandoned Town of Cairo, Illinois in Cairo, Illinois
Situated at the confluence of the Mississippi River and the Ohio River, at the southernmost point in Illinois, the port town of Cairo (pronounced CARE-o) boomed along with the steamboat industry. When...
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Branded Newsstands, Bad Nachos, and the Evolution of Airport Retail
Fox Newsstand at Minneapolis Airport. (Photo: Seth Werkheiser/CC SA: BY 2.0)A version of this post originally appeared on Tedium, a twice-weekly newsletter that hunts for the end of the long tail.When...
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Flintsbach Historical Cemetery in Flintsbach am Inn, Germany
In Germany most cemeteries contain only relatively recent grave markers, going back at most one or two generations. This is because families of the deceased typically only rent the graves for a fixed...
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The Strange Tale of JFK's Goat-Out-the-Vote Campaign
The man, and goat, in question, along with campaign aid Sylvester Colbert and Grand Knight Warren McCully. (Image: John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum/Public Domain)As this turbulent...
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