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Spotlight on Broadway Map in New York, New York
If you ever happen to find yourself running late for a Broadway show, but don't know the address of the theatre, and for some reason can't look it up on your phone, there's no need to panic. Just walk...
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Marie Duval, the Pioneering 19th-Century Cartoonist That History Forgot
In the late 1800s, London was swept up in the new craze of visual, satirical journalism. When Judy magazine, a twopenny serio-comic, debuted a red-nosed, lanky schemer named Ally Sloper who represented...
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Punxsutawney Phil's Greatest Hits
A 1915 cartoon demonstrating how Phil's image has been co-opted for various rhetorical purposes. (Image: Jena Fuller/Flickr)This morning, Punxsutawney Phil, America's most beloved forecasting...
View ArticleA Portland Teen's Pet Snake Got Stuck in Her Earlobe
Ah, teens and their snakes—always getting into mischief.Last week, Portland, Oregon, resident Ashley Glawe was hanging out with her pet ball python, Bart, when he decided to try something new. Quick as...
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De Poezenboot (The Cat Boat) in Amsterdam, Netherlands
Though cats typically avoid water at all costs, the felines of De Poezenboot, "The Cat Boat," seem perfectly at home on their floating sanctuary.De Poezenboot is an animal sanctuary floating on a canal...
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Found: Two Mysterious Signatures on the Wing of a WWII Plane
AirCorps Aviation, in Bemidji, Minnesota, has a very particular business: they restore, maintain and rebuild vintage planes, from the World War II era. All sorts of amazing aircraft come through their...
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Minnie Pearl Chicken Wire Statue in Centerville, Tennessee
As the comic icon of the Grand Old Opry for more than 50 years, and the most cherished $1.98-hat-wearing star Tennessee ever fashioned, no one would have been more proud of a larger-than-life statue...
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The Hull Mermaid in Hull, England
Hidden between the bleached whale bones and barbed harpoons of the Hull Maritime Museum is a morbid, aquatic curio, the mummified corpse of a mermaid. Measuring nearly 2 feet tall and covered in...
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Washington Monument Lightning Rod in Washington, D.C.
The 550-foot Washington Monument was the tallest freestanding structure in the world when it was completed in 1884. Electrical knowledge was still primitive at the time, but the designers knew that...
View ArticleWatch a Massive Swirling Tornado of Tuna
A couple of times a year in the waters of Mexico's Sea of Cortez, a colossal column of tuna churns slowly in an underwater fish vortex. The tunnel of over 100,000 Jack Tuna, or bigeye trevally, is...
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Santa Cruz Surfing Museum in Santa Cruz, California
A lighthouse on the north tip of Monterey Bay houses a museum that chronicles the history of surfing, which was delivered to Santa Cruz by three Hawaiian princes.Surfing, of course, did not originate...
View ArticleA Good Man Removed a Cereal Bowl From This Blinded Squirrel's Head
Someday in life you will encounter a blinded squirrel with a single-serve cereal bowl stuck on its head and you will be confronted with a choice: Is today the day you will be a hero? Or is today the...
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Why the London of British Literature Barely Changed for 200 Years
Erik Steiner is a geographer, and in his field people trying to understand how places worked in the past tend to look at census records and old maps. But in a recent project, Steiner, the creative...
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Were Colonial Men Obsessed With Their Calves?
A couple of weeks ago, at an event in Manhattan, I found myself in conversation with a George Washington impersonator. Even as we chatted about our 21st-century lives, he had an enviable commitment to...
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World's Largest Hairball in Garden City, Kansas
Situated at the entrance to the equally enjoyable Lee Richardson Zoo, the Finney County Historical Museum is a quaint museum that tells the history of Southwestern Kansas. It also tastefully displays...
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Found: One (Relatively) Cute Shark And One Hideous Ghost Shark
There are so many small mysteries left in the world. Today’s evidence—a hammerhead shark and a ghost shark, both new discoveries. One is small and, dare we say, cute? For a shark? The other is the...
View ArticleSomeone Is Driving Around With Too Many (?) Copies of 'Speed' on Their Dashboard
Hi uh there's a minivan parked on my block that has a couple dozen VHS tapes of the motion picture SPEED on the dashboard pic.twitter.com/xXlMAnigHw— Emily Hughes ✨ (@emilyhughes) February 2,...
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Kitano-chō in Chūō-ku, Japan
There are lots of examples of western-style architecture throughout Japan, but Kobe’s historic Kitano-chō district has a rare and extensive collection of homes from the late 19th and early 20th...
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A Dictator's Nuclear Bunker Gets a Second Life as an Art Space
A tunnel the length of almost two football fields separates the hustle and bustle of Tirana, Albania’s capital, from one of the country’s largest nuclear bunkers.In the communist days, this five-story,...
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The Alluring Statuette Dividing Dublin
From the bespectacled bust of James Joyce in St. Stephen’s Green to the busty bronze of Molly Malone off Grafton Street, Dublin is a city of icons. But if you venture out from the winding cobblestone...
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