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Matilda Joslyn Gage Grave

Fayetteville, New York · Fayetteville

Matilda Joslyn Gage Grave

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In a Fayetteville, New York, cemetery is the gravestone of a largely forgotten suffragist leader, which makes a powerful, uncompromising statement. In the quiet Fayetteville Cemetery, amid rows of conventional memorials, stands a monument that speaks with a voice of radical conviction. It marks the final resting place of Matilda Joslyn Gage, a pioneering suffragist, abolitionist, and freethinker whose contributions to American history were for a…Read Article

Ice Age Floods display at Tualatin Public Library

Tualatin · Tualatin

Ice Age Floods display at Tualatin Public Library

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In 1962, a partial mastodon skeleton was unearthed in Tualatin near where its public library now stands. Originally on display at Portland State University until being stored away sometime in the 1970s, the nearly half-complete skeleton was cleaned and restored for display in the library. The exhibit is offset against a frosted glass image of what the mastodon would look like in life. The mastodon was a female who expired in her 20s and is belie…Read Article

Saint Anthony’s Sign of the Cross

Lisbon, Portugal · Lisbon

Saint Anthony’s Sign of the Cross

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Before he was widely known across Christendom as Saint Anthony of Padua, Fernando Martins was a young boy studying at the Lisbon Cathedral school. Legend has it that the local lad was tempted by the devil in the cathedral, but resisted and repelled his lures by making the sign of the cross. Visitors to the church can now see Martins’ sign on the wall, covered by a decorative grille, on the way up the stairs to the treasury. The presence of the m…Read Article

Douglas C-47B Crash Site

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On a snowy November evening in 1957, a national guard Twin engine Douglas C-47B plane with 11 people on board tried to land at Gustavus airport. It was on its way from Tacoma, Washington to Anchorage, Alaska. The plane was running low on fuel after having to miss its fuel stop farther south at Annette Island due to severe turbulence and winds and opting to go on to Gustavus, which had good weather at decision time, plus better landing lights and…Gustavus · Gustavus Read Article

Aurelio Espinosa Pólit Cultural Center

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The Centro Cultural Biblioteca Ecuatoriana Aurelio Espinosa Pólit is a “secret” museum that even many Quiteños (residents of Quito) are unaware of. It is a former Jesuit boarding school, initially converted into a library and now a cultural center. From the outside, it looks like an isolated mansion shielded by high walls, but inside, it holds true treasures of Ecuadorian history and literature — some of them rather macabre. The museum has 12 ro…Quito · Quito Read Article

Race Course Fire Memorial

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Tucked away on the hillside in So Kon Po, behind the southeastern corner of Hong Kong Stadium, lies the Race Course Fire Memorial in the form of a beautiful Chinese-style shrine. On the afternoon of February 26th, 1918, Happy Valley Race Course was hosting an annual horse race. Thousands of people filled the wood-and-bamboo grandstand, leading to its collapse. Cooking equipment used by food sellers overturned, igniting a fire that spread rapidl…Hong Kong · Hong Kong Read Article

The Tunnels of Tabor

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Dating back to the 15th century, it is believed that the Taborites — early Protestant followers of Jan Hus — first dug cellars into the stone, as the constant temperature aided food storage. However the common dangers of fires, wars and raids led the Taborites to expand these cellars into a labyrinth of tunnels up to 12 meters (39 feet) deep and stretching for 14 kilometers (8 miles) beneath the old town. Throughout their centuries of use they h…Czechia · Czechia Read Article

Base of the Column of Arcadius

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Built in the early 5th century to honor the Roman Emperor Arcadius, this column stood for 1300 years, finally being demolished in 1719 after sustaining damage from earthquakes. From historical drawings and descriptions, it is known to have been modeled after the famous Column of Trajan in Rome, with a narrative relief frieze spiraling up its length depicting the Gothic revolt of 395-398. Crowned by a statue of the triumphant Arcadius, it may ha…Istanbul, Turkey · Istanbul Read Article

Who Drew the Devil in This Massive Medieval Bible?

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Listen and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. Amanda McGowan: Today I want to tell you a story about a book. Dylan Thuras: Okay. Amanda: It’s a very special book. It’s called the Codex Gigas, which is Latin for big book. But before I get into what it is and what’s in it, I want to tell you a little bit of a story about how it was made. A legend, if you will. A fantastical tale. Dylan: Okay. This is a book with a ba…Spotify · Czechia Read Article

Muc Lien's 18 Gates of Hell

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Tucked away beneath the breathtaking Linh Phước Temple in Da Lat — a kaleidoscope of mosaics made from tiny shards of glass and ceramic — lies something entirely unexpected: a creepy basement exhibit that plunges visitors into the terrifying legend of Mục Liên’s 18 Gates of Hell. Mục Liên, also known as Maudgalyāyana, is said in Buddhist scripture to have made multiple trips to hell, to rescue his mother from suffering. Accessed through an unma…Vietnam · Vietnam Read Article

Lighthouse of Jára Cimrman

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Imagine taking one groundbreaking invention after another to the patent office and the clerk uncompromisingly telling you now, now, he was already here. You must have met him — a certain Alexander Graham Bell." This is just one of the wacky incidents shown in the 1983 Czechoslovak mockumentary "Jara Cimrman Lying, Sleeping" (Czech: Jára Cimrman ležící, spící"). It also shows, for example, that Cimrman bent the original model of the Eiffel Tower,…Czechia · Czechia Read Article

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