Train Full Of BMWs Crashes In South Carolina
Have you, while flipping through your morning news source of choice, found yourself muttering "2016 is a car crash?" And afterwards, have you chastised yourself for your lack of creativity—your...
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Ben Abeba in Lalibela, Ethiopia
Lalibela, Ethiopia is a holy city, a UNESCO World Heritage site famous for its 12th century churches cut into the rock of the earth. On the opposite end of the architectural spectrum, just a short walk...
View ArticleA Giant Jeremy Clarkson Head Is Mysteriously Haunting America's Highways
Only just discovered that someone managed to shrink Clarkson's head. pic.twitter.com/VxOeFPEBqA— James May (@MrJamesMay) December 6, 2016British television personality Jeremy Clarkson is known for...
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The Famous Actress Who Loved Playing A Rooster
In New York City, in the winter of 1910-11, two days before the box office opened, people began standing in line to buy tickets to Chantecler, a French play about a rooster. By the time tickets went on...
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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Forensics Laboratory in Ashland, Oregon
The scientists at the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Forensics Laboratory have one big job: to use their resources, expertise, training and crime-fighting ingenuity in the service of wildlife law...
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Harry's New York Bar in Paris, France
When Ian Fleming decided upon a favorite bar in Paris for James Bond, there was only one option for the discerning secret agent: the legendary Harry’s New York Bar. As laid out in the 1960 short story...
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Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California
This large Catholic cemetery is the final resting place of movie stars including Sharon Tate, Rita Hayworth, Bing Crosby, Zasu Pitts, Rosalind Russell, and Dracula himself (aka Bela Lugosi). In 1939,...
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Why Are People Seeing Red Over Spaghetti Bolognese?
All across the western world, from the tip of Italy's boot to the coast of California, a conflict simmers. Some say the solution is worldliness—that we must expand the definitions of old standbys to...
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The Lost Art of Painting on Cobweb Canvases
As far back as the 16th century, monks and peasants wandered the secluded Puster Valley fortressed by the icy mountains of the Tyrolean Alps in search of the glistening, silky homes of spiders and...
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Remington Hot Springs in California
Remington is one in a series of geothermally heated springs that emerge along the 165-mile Kern River, with its headwaters in the High Sierra and its terminus through a boulder-pocked, winding canyon...
View ArticleWatch Hermit Crabs Crawl Into Glistening Mini New Yorks and Bangkoks
The hermit crab is a kind of nomad of the crustacean world. As they grow, the small, orange-speckled creatures shift from shell to shell. Some are kicked out of their homes by larger, stronger hermit...
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Gotokuji Temple in Setagaya-ku, Japan
Gotokuji, a Buddhist temple in Tokyo’s Setagaya district, has become famous due to a legend citing it as the birthplace of the maneki-neko (beckoning cat) good luck charm.Legend has it that during the...
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A Town In California Has Again Dropped A Piano For Fun
Every year, thousands of old, unloved pianos molder in basements, wheeze off to the dump, or search futilely for homes on Craiglist. But one, in Winters, California, sees a fitting end—it's hoisted by...
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Queen Elizabeth I’s Vast Spy Network Was The First Surveillance State
In a lowly tavern in an English town in the 1580s, a group of men met to organize the assassination of their monarch, Queen Elizabeth I. The head of the operation, Anthony Babington, planned to rescue...
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Circuses, Magic and Hypnotism: Welcome to the World of Victorian Entertainment
Magic shows, wax works exhibits, hypnotism displays, circuses and séances. For the Victorians, there was no shortage of options for an evening’s entertainment, which may explain the hyperbole of their...
View ArticleFound: A Roman Tombstone Buried in the New York City Suburbs
Ancient Roman tombstone found buried in New York https://t.co/6B3U5gPKYXpic.twitter.com/mNCBkRVc1M— Fox5NY (@fox5ny) December 6, 2016While working on a new housing development in wealthy Westchester...
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Coffin It Up in Pahrump, Nevada
Hidden in the outskirts of Pahrump, Nevada in a sun-scorched, sparsely-populated part of town lies an expansive cemetery of coffins and gravestones with a sign of black letters spelling out...
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Krýsuvíkurbjarg (Krýsuvík Cliffs) in Iceland
Harsh winds and cold ocean spray doesn't ruffle the feathers of thethousands of birds who come to summer on Krýsuvíkurbjarg.Reaching the cliffs requires a bumpy drive or a long walk across the lava...
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Louis XIV's Globes in Paris, France
Turn into a dark corner in the Bibliothèque nationale de France and you might be shocked to find two massive baroque globes dangling from the ceiling.The 20-foot spheres were commissioned by King Louis...
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Rock 'n' Roll and Military Dictatorships Almost Destroyed Argentine Tango
In the 1940s, Argentina was tango and tango was Argentina. Born in the marginalized outskirts and upscale brothels of Buenos Aires, the musical genre slowly but surely seeped into the very roots of the...
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