Fleeting Wonders: Gold-Sprinkled Haggis With a $5,700 Price Tag
.@MacsweenHaggis reveals world’s most expensive haggis ahead of Burns Night https://t.co/BuuERVcZRzpic.twitter.com/cuWRRFBN8h— The Scottish Sun (@ScottishSun) January 21, 2016In an era of champagne...
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FOUND: The Stolen Statue of a Berkeley Crew Coach, Now Decapitated
Ebright, a bit worse for the wear (Photo: San Leandro Police Department)One night in early January, UC Berkeley crew coach Carroll "Ky" Ebright went missing from the college's boathouse in Oakland....
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Pyramiden in Pyramiden, Norway
Abandoned mines can seem like they are a dime a dozen, but the derelict outpost on the archipelago of Svalbard, above Norway's arctic circle, remains unlike any other on the planet.Throughout the...
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Palm Trees Have Vanished All Over Athens, But Not For The Reason People Think
Work in progress on "Imagine a Palm Tree..." Navine G. Khan-Dossos's artistic exploration of the palm in Athenian culture. (Photo: Navine G. Khan Dossos)Once upon a time, in a mythological Greece, a...
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North Cape, Norway in Nordkapp, Norway
At the northern tip of the island of Magerøya, at a place called Knivskjellodden, is the very end – the very top – of Europe. You are still in Norway, but standing at the gateway to the Arctic.North...
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University of Florence Museum of Pathological Anatomy in Firenze, Italy
Founded in 1824, the Pathological Museum of the University of Florence features wax figures sculpted by some of the great anatomical artists of the 19th century.This small, but important collection of...
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Holland Island in Holland Island, Maryland
A town can change a lot in 100 years. In the case of the settlement on Chesapeake Bay’s Holland Island, the land itself can simply disappear.Once one of the most populated islands in the bay, Holland...
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The Arch of Cabo San Lucas in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
Baja California is the second-longest peninsula in the world and helps form the Gulf of California, one of the most biologically diverse seas on the planet. And they both terminate in the picturesque...
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This Week in Google News Alerts: 'Ghost Town'
Bennettville Bunkhouse, California. (Photo: Utilizer)I’m a pretty bad driver, if we’re being honest. I live in a city with public transportation, fortunately, but my parents live in a rural area, so...
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NAM, the Little Weather Model That Could
From NAM's website. "You know the old saying, garbage in, garbage, out." So began the news segment hosted by Bruce Leshan, a weather analyst camped out, like many weather analysts, at the National...
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Why Snow Shoveling is an Unusually Deadly Type of Exercise
Experts recommend people over 55 don't shovel snow. (Photo: Sage Ross/Wikimedia Commons)Yesterday, in the onslaught of announcements from New York officials about the near-record setting blizzard...
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The Famous Photo of Chernobyl's Most Dangerous Radioactive Material Was a...
Artur Korneyev, Deputy Director of Shelter Object, viewing the "elephants foot" lava flow at Chernobyl, 1996. (Photo: US Department of Energy) At first glance, it’s hard to know what’s happening in...
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Tallahassee-Leon County Civil Rights Heritage Walk in Tallahassee, Florida
Tallahassee newcomers and visitors might want to go to Visit Tallahassee (at 106 E Jefferson St) to find out about local museums and tourist spots. If you have an interest in civil rights, you can find...
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Rag and Bone in Stockholm, Sweden
Huddled at the foot of a Stockholm bridge is a sad little figure, barely visible under a pile of rumpled up blankets, silently pleading for your sympathy. This statue, called "Rag and Bone," is somehow...
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Look, Ma, flammable hands! (Photo: Library of Congress)In 1938, the news photo agency Harris & Ewing visited the United States Bureau of Mines in Maryland. An employee of USBM, A. George Stern, had...
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The True Crime Tourists Who Visit Sites from 'Serial', 'Making a Murderer'...
Scott Michaels by his tour vehicle. (Photo: Erica Lancaster) A Best Buy in Maryland may not seem like a tourism hotspot, but to fans of the juggernaut true crime podcast Serial, it’s the Taj Mahal. In...
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Falmouth Springs in Falmouth, Florida
Though Falmouth Springs has been called the shortest river in the world, it's really not a river at all. It's what is known as a karst window, or karst fenster: an unroofed portion of a cavern that...
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China’s Appetite for Smuggled Fish Bladders is Killing Cute Porpoises in Mexico
Desire for the bladders of totoaba fish in China is endangering the few vaquitas left in the Gulf of California. (Photo: Public Domain/WikiCommons)The smell of fish infuses the air. Seafood stalls pop...
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FOUND: A Human Skull in a L.A. Religious Shop
A human skull (not the one found in L.A.) (Photo: S S./flickr)In the Los Angeles neighborhood of Compton, officers from the sheriff's department paid a visit to Omi Relekun, a religious shop, to...
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How Dollar Stores Were Planted in the South and Bloomed Around the U.S.
A Family Dollar store in New York. (Photo: Random Retail/flickr)A version of this post originally appeared on the Tedium newsletter. All around the country, a handful of chain stores with the word...
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