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Teen Turns Old Ropes Into Leashes
Sport climbing had its Olympic debut this morning! They will go through a lot of rope in the lead and speed climbing events—and every time a climber falls, the "dynamic" rope stretches to absorb the shock when the rope runs out. I used to climb with my kids and only tested that once, but it's a big stretch. That's what ages a rope—they are rated for the number of falls and then have to be retired. They have a first life protecting climbers. Then 16-year-old Alexander Tsao takes those old ropes and gives them a second life protecting dogs.
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5 New Plant Species Discovered in Bolivia
These specimens may shed insight into how plants respond and adapt to global warming.
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Dubai's Answer to Real Heat Is … Fake Rain?
We can mitigate, we can adapt, or we can pray that drones will save us.
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Artist's Fantastical Paper Installations Are a 'Love Song' to Earth's Biodiversity
These imaginary landscapes of flora and fauna are a call to action to protect that biodiversity.
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Solar-Powered Refrigerated Trailers Could Eliminate Millions of Tons of CO2 Emissions
The carbon cost of transporting food is a lot bigger than people think.
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What to See in the Night Sky for August 2021
Every August I am out there on the dock for the Perseids!
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Colorado's Subalpine Forests Are Dying from Extreme Heat
Trees are often touted as a solution to the climate crisis, but the high heat and drought are also harming forests’ ability to thrive.
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How to Grow Blueberries: Your Go-To Guide for Plant Care
We just got our first of the season and there is nothing better.
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Basking Sharks Show Off Secret Underwater Life
"Cameras capture synchronized swimming that may be courtship behavior." And they are not even competing for medals in Tokyo.
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The flat, rainbow-like stacks that appear in sunny skies



August 03, 2021


Meet ‘Firebows’
Have you ever seen a stacked spectrum of color stretched above the sky, something that looks like a rainbow but there’s no arc—and it appears on a sunny day? Well, what you saw wasn’t a rainbow; rather, it was a “firebow,” or a circumhorizon arc. They form when the sun is fairly high in the sky—more than 58 degrees above the horizon—and sunlight refracts off of the ice crystals in high-altitude clouds. And they aren’t the only colorful potential residents of the sunny sky either.
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Italy’s ‘Museum of Abandonment’
Italy is full of ruins, ancient, yes, but modern as well. Italy has developed a fastidious approach to heritage preservation, and the government’s cultural heritage department imposes renovation restrictions on many, many buildings. Combined with the country’s legendary red tape, erecting new buildings may be easier than renovating protected sites, which results in countless places being left behind. No accurate statistics exist, but Italian media has estimated the country has between two and 14 million abandoned buildings. Enter a new outdoor museum: the In Loco Widespread Museum of Abandonment.
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THE ATLAS OBSCURA PODCAST
Salton Sea
In this episode of The Atlas Obscura podcast, we visit the Salton Sea to hear the story of how humans desperate for water created a lake the size of the city of Los Angeles—and how that thirst turned toxic.
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Earth’s Rudest Places
Rudeness comes in many flavors. Sometimes it’s crass, scatological humor. Other times, it’s the product of a petty, persistent grudge. In still other cases, it can be utterly accidental—but no less provocative for it. Sometimes it gets permanently inscribed, in the form of, say, flamboyantly fecal sculptures, or skinny structures designed to stymie a pretty view, or no-harm-intended statues that ended up bugging a lot of people. Here are a few of our favorite uncouth places.
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FROM THE ARCHIVES
Food Truck Fit For a Prince
Emanuele Filiberto di Savoia has his own pasta truck—a shiny, royal blue colossus streaked with the colors of the Italian flag—called the Prince of Venice. This is notable for several reasons—Filiberto is the first person to put a fresh pasta machine in a commercial food truck, for one. And then, of course, there’s the fact that Emanuele Filiberto di Savoia is the grandson of Umberto II, the last king of Italy. In other words, Filiberto is literally the Prince of Venice.
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ATLAS OBSCURA EXPERIENCES
Special Access: The Entomology Collection
The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University in Philadelphia boasts a collection of over four million insects from around the world, representing about 100,000 species. Go behind-the-scenes for a Special Access look at this wonderous collection with Senior Director of Exhibits and Public Spaces, Jennifer Sontchi, and Curator of Entomology, Jon Gelhaus.
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AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS
Normaal Amsterdams Peil
The infrastructure of Amsterdam depends on a stone at the center of Dam Square. The stone caps a bolt that marks Amsterdam’s zero-level, or sea level, based on high tide in the summer of nearby Zuiderzee Bay. The reference point, called Amsterdam Ordnance Datum (which translates to Normaal Amsterdams Peil, or NAP), is the heart of the European network of national leveling networks. In other words, the NAP is the prime meridian of elevation.
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CAMDENTON, MISSOURI
Ha Ha Tonka Castle Ruins
Sitting on a bluff in the oddly-named Ha Ha Tonka State Park (supposedly translating to “laughing waters”), the ruins of a businessman’s mansion appear to belong to a bygone fairytale kingdom, but are really the remains of a dead man’s dream.
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In the Cradle of Wine
On this mouthwatering gastronomic adventure, we’ll explore in and around the Georgian capital of Tbilisi, paying homage to Svetitskhovloba, the country’s holiest site, before dipping into some of the finest wine from one of the most underrated wine regions in the world. We’ll spend two days in the stunning Alazani Valley, where we’ll experience the deep reverence for winemaking that defines this land. Along the way, we’ll take in unique performances, visit little-known spots, and to cap things off, learn to cook our own Georgian feast, or supra.
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ATLAS OBSCURA COURSES
Fall Feasts: Foraging & Folklore
Join herbalist and forager Felicity Roberts alongside farmer and culinarian Ryley Bucek for a global celebration of the harvest season through space and time. Over the course of four sessions, we’ll learn about foraging wherever we are (including in the urban wild) and preparing your harvest through the lens of mythology and festivals both ancient and contemporary.
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BROOKLYN, NEW YORK
The Leaning Brownstone
Walking past 633 Union Street, you may not notice anything’s amiss at first. But if you step back and take another look, you may notice that the building is off-kilter. A closer inspection also shows mismatched brickwork that curves slightly inward on the right side. An awning on the front of the building identifies it as the Leaning Brownstone.
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New England’s Stone Walls
Walk into a patch of forest in New England, and chances are you will—almost literally—stumble across a stone wall. Thigh-high, perhaps, it is cobbled together with stones of various shapes and sizes, with splotches of lichen and spongy moss instead of mortar. Robert Thorson, a landscape geologist at University of Connecticut, estimates that there are more than 100,000 miles of old, disused stone walls out there, or enough to circle the globe four times.
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2 things close to my heart
very close actually

ask the world,to tread cfarefully/be respectfull ww,re the newfound global phenomenon of fgotraging'
not that ouyr world will listern

and i travelled the buik by honda 90- srepthru scooter,to live/breath,sronerowa huh79/80
 
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Chipmunks near South Lake Tahoe test positive for plague


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'Massive melting event' strikes Greenland after record heat wave

(Saul Loeb/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)
Greenland's enormous ice sheet has been struck by a "massive melting event," with enough ice vanishing in a single day last week to cover the whole of Florida in two inches (5 centimeters) of water, Danish researchers have found.

Since July 27, roughly 9.37 billion tons (8.5 billion metric tons) of ice has been lost per day from the surface of the enormous ice sheet — twice its normal average rate of loss during summer, Polar Portal, a Danish site run by Arctic climate researchers, reported. The huge loss comes after temperatures in north Greenland soared to above 68 degrees Fahrenheit (20 degrees Celsius), which is double the summer average, the Danish Meteorological Institute reported.
Full Story: LiveScience (8/2)

Sacred stone tto the legend of Romulus and Remus unearthed in Rome

(Archaeological Museums of Rome)
An immense stone that defined the sacred city limits of ancient Rome almost 2,000 years ago has been unearthed by construction workers in the historic center of the city.

The so-called pomerial stone or "cippus," is more than 6 feet (nearly 2 meters) tall and made of fine limestone called travertine. Workers discovered it in June while installing new sewers in the plaza around the recently-restored Mausoleum of Augustus, which opened as a museum earlier this year.

It was one of dozens of similar stones that marked Rome's "pomerium" — a sacred strip of land just inside and outside the city walls where it was forbidden to build or farm, and within which weapons were forbidden. According to ancient Roman law, anything inside the pomerium was part of the city of Rome (called "urbs") and everything beyond it was merely territory (called "ager").
Full Story: LiveScience (8/3)

Graveyard of rhinos, horses and hippos found in ancient, dried-up watering hole

(Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology)
Nine million years ago, a watering hole in what is now Spain became first a refuge, then a last resting place, for droves of desperate hippos, rhinos, horses and sabertooth cats.

Dozens of animals died of starvation, dehydration and miring in the dwindling watering hole over three separate periods of drought in the late Miocene, according to new research published in the September issue of the journal Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology and available online July 15. The animals' remains were rapidly buried in sediment when the rains began again, leaving them mostly undisturbed by scavengers or weathering.
Full Story: LiveScience (8/3)

The world has a serious deforestation problem: These 7 images prove it.

(Getty Images)
Earth's forests are our planet's lungs, inhaling atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) and expelling breathable oxygen.

In January 2021, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) released a report about the state of the world's deforestation problem and 24 "deforestation fronts," or places where large areas of forest are under threat. The study concluded that 106 million acres (43 million hectares) of forest around the world have been stripped away over the last 13 years.
Full Story: LiveScience (8/3)

Space station mishap with Russian module more serious than NASA first reported

(Thomas Pesquet/ESA/NASA)
Last week, a Russian module accidentally pushed the International Space Station out of place. Now, a NASA flight director has revealed that the event was more serious than NASA initially reported.

On Thursday (July 29) morning, Russia's long-awaited research module Nauka docked with the space station. But a few hours later, the module accidentally fired its thrusters, briefly tilting the space station and causing it to lose what engineers call "attitude control."
Full Story: LiveScience (8/3)

Chipmunks near South Lake Tahoe test positive for plague

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Chipmunks in the South Lake Tahoe area have tested positive for plague, prompting officials to close several spots in the vicinity, according to news reports.

Officials announced this week that Kiva Beach and the Taylor Creek Visitor Center in South Lake Tahoe will be closed through Friday (Aug. 6) following the positive plague tests, according to The Tahoe Daily Tribune. The infected chipmunks had no known contact with people, the Daily Tribune reported.
Full Story: LiveScience (8/2)

Slowdown of Epin caused an oxygen surge

(Phil Hartmeyer, NOAA Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary)
Here's a new spin on how Earth became an oxygen-rich planet: As our planet's rotation slowed, microbes were bathed in longer stints of sunlight that revved up their release of oxygen into the atmosphere.

Every breath you take is possible because billions of years ago, dense mats of cyanobacteria — the first life on Earth — began churning out oxygen as a byproduct from photosynthesis. But scientists still didn't know for sure what triggered two transformative oxygenation events that turned Earth from a low-oxygen planet into an oxygen-rich world where complex organisms could evolve and diversify.
Full Story: LiveScience (8/2)

Real-life SpongeBob and Patrick found side by side on seafloor. But they likely don't get along.

(NOAA Ocean Exploration/Christopher Ma)
Real-life versions of cartoon best friends SpongeBob Squarepants and Patrick Star were sitting side by side at the bottom of the sea when marine researchers spotted them.

Controlling a remotely operated vehicle, the scientists discovered the square(ish) yellow sponge and five-pointed pink sea star at the Retriever Seamount off the coast of New England on July 27, at a depth of 6,184 feet (1,885 meters). The researchers, from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), were exploring the seamount as part of the expedition Atlantic Stepping Stones onboard the ship Okeanos Explorer. NOAA shared images of the peculiar pair as part of a Facebook livestream.
Full Story: LiveScience (8/2)


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Take a global tour of the world's most interesting cafés
There are plenty of faceless chain coffee shops in nearly every city on earth, but many cafés are much more than that. Coffee draws a community around it, and some coffee shops take on the character of their owners, patrons, and locations. And even more so than restaurants, these cafés have a longevity that puts many eateries to shame.
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The youth reforesting Puerto Rico
When the fury of Hurricane Maria subsided in Puerto Rico, Amira Odeh stepped outside and knew she needed to do something. Within hours Hurricane Mario had wiped out 80 percent of Puerto Rico’s agriculture, so Odeh and her friends quickly hatched a plan: to deliver emergency supplies and trees and seeds for plants, such as tomatoes and peppers.
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Stadshuskällaren
Not many people get to attend the yearly Nobel banquets, as that’s reserved for geniuses, humanitarians, and Swedish nobility. But if your invitation got lost in the mail, never fear. With a chunk of change, you, too, can feast like a Nobel prizewinner in the cellars of Stockholm’s City Hall.
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In the Cradle of Wine: A Georgian Culinary Adventure
Departs October 2021! Tucked between the Black and Caspian Seas and in the shadow of Europe’s highest mountains, you'll find Georgia—a tiny country with an astounding culinary heritage and a winemaking tradition tracing back eight millennia. On this mouthwatering gastronomic adventure, we’ll explore in and around the capital of Tbilisi before dipping into the finest wines from one of the most underrated wine regions in the world.
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Around the world in beautiful farms
Often, when we hear the word farm, images of roaming animals, hay bales stacked in rows, and fields of produce stretching for miles come to mind. While farms can be rough and rugged, heavy on dirt and manure, many are also home to vistas of unparalleled natural beauty. From webbed-shaped rice paddies in Indonesia to a historic garden that once belonged to a United States president, here are 10 picturesque farms that are also works of art.
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The government is set to tweak its vaccination timetable to accelerate jabs for those aged 30 to 39, after modelling showing it is vital to get younger adults quickly vaccinated, because they are high COVID transmitters.


Me (top, third from right) with others from the International Space University, in front of the Shuttle Atlantis at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.
I’m training to become Australia’s first woman astronaut. Here’s what it takes
Kim Ellis Hayes, Swinburne University of Technology

Later this year I will spend time with former NASA astronaut instructors, before receiving high-G training, crew resource management training and spacesuit training, among other skills.


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Vineyard tourism is a big source of carbon emissions. Want to help? Then buy more wine
Ya-Yen Sun, The University of Queensland

The Australian wine industry has already been forced to adapt to the effects of climate change. It must reduce its carbon footprint – including emissions generated by wine tourists.


XIV Crows (からす) by Maruki Iri and Maruki Toshi, 1972. Courtesy the Maruki Gallery
The Hiroshima Panels are a remarkable artistic exploration of trauma
Barbara Hartley, The University of Queensland
 
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Qantas will stand down 2,500 staff in response to Sydney’s extended lockdown and outbreaks in other states
Qantas has said it will stand down 2,500 workers across its mainline and Jetstar brands for two months as it grapples with Greater Sydney’s extended lockdown and outbreaks in other states.

as far as im concerned yet another cost saving/opportune timer for restruvctyuring,using cv as the excuse
said it befor govts ww will always support/carry there national flag carrier
they never lose
us taxpayers are mugs allowing the wealth to rule us
 
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Forest logging agreement ranging from Sydney to Queensland to be challenged in court
The North East Regional Forest Agreement, allowing logging on the New South Wales north coast for the next 20 years, will be challenged in the Federal Court.



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naughty mustelids,all banned from my island gbi,i call it my island hwaha
8 years living there sand vigilasnce by doc/and all locals/visitors
prved no ferrets etc on island
success
 
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Please Don't Build Fairy Doors Along Trails
Have you heard of these? I hadn't. "Tucked into the bottom of a tree with space between its arched roots, the tiny rounded door suggested a secret world." Katherine's kids were enchanted, but others are not. Some of these doors are screwed into place, harming the trees. I am a "leave no trace" kind of person and like forests in their natural state, as does Katherine. Others disagree; the very first comment was a curt, "Oh come on."
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Burning for Nearly a Month, Oregon's Bootleg Fire Continues to Move
Remember planting trees for carbon offsets? They just went up in flames.
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Carbon Emissions Will Kill People. Be Careful Who You Blame.
Sami writes, "I had decidedly mixed feelings about the framing." So did I.
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Pop-Up Charging Stations Are Less Offensive to Pedestrians
EV chargers were taking over our sidewalks with their chargers. This is a great idea.
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Tropical Rainforest Vulnerability Index May Help Conserve Them
The goal is for it to provide an early warning for areas under the greatest threat.
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What Can You Recycle? To-Go Food Containers
The real lesson here is don't do takeout.
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Will the House of the Future Be Plastic?
The petrochemical industry certainly hopes so, but it's a bad idea.
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Clever Solution Saves Thousands of Seabird Chicks in California
A shocking part of this story is that the birds were scared off their original nesting sites by jerks illegally flying drones over them. Jailing these guys would be a good tern.
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admit,was intriguued/mysrified re gbs 'giants causeway
but
we humans do have a penchant for naming many mysters huh


August 04, 2021


India’s Touring Tent Cinemas
The long and colorful tradition of traveling movie theaters in India dates back to the 1950s. Over the years, these operations made the rounds of the annual festival of village carnivals known as jatra, meaning “journey.” During the eight months of jatra, dozens of touring talkies traveled from village to village, trucks loaded with equipment, including tents and screens to play films in Hindi and Marathi, the local language. But once a major part of rural life, these traveling pictures shows have been struggling even before the pandemic.
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LAKE GEORGE, NEW YORK
Caldwell-Lake George Library
Among the unique artifacts inside this library located in Lake George, New York, a mummified hand stands out among the others. Donated by the original librarian, Mary Hubbell, this severed, mummified hand mysteriously went missing in 1982 before being discovered at an estate sale years later and returned to the library.
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GASTRO OBSCURA
World’s Most Wondrous Vegetarian Eateries
Vegetarianism is an ancient practice that somehow continues to get classified as new and edgy in Western cultures. Long before Haus Hiltl, now the oldest vegetarian restaurant in the West, was even a twinkle in the eyes of its founders, Buddhist, Hindu, and Sikh places of worship were churning out enough meatless meals to feed entire armies, often for free. Here are the most wondrous vegetarian eateries across the world, with many venues featuring long histories and unique specialties.
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ATLAS OBSCURA COURSES
Playing With Sound: Experimental Music
Experimental music is more of a verb than a noun; to create it, one must experiment. Join singer, engineer, and composer Jamie Stewart of Xiu Xiu to explore the definitions and bounds of experimental music and the creative processes that shape and transcend it. Designed for music makers and appreciators alike, we’ll be doing lots of listening, discussing, and creating—with opportunities to walk through techniques of producing musical and creative experiments as we go.
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FROM THE ARCHIVES
Yeast-less Bread
Flummoxed on how to rise to the occasion without any yeast? Fear not, we’re here to help. People have produced bread without yeast across history, cultures, and climes, leaving an incredible array of styles to choose from when your leavening options are limited. From the sticky-sweet steamed bread of Colonial New England to the Icelandic rye that rises in a hot spring, here are seven breads that prove you don’t have to track down that elusive packet of yeast to make something extraordinary.
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THE ATLAS OBSCURA PODCAST
Winchester Mystery House
In this episode of The Atlas Obscura podcast, we visit the Winchester Mystery House. Does this sprawling mansion in San Jose, California, live up to its reputation as one of the most haunted places in the world?
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CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA
Giant's Causeway Pillar
Roughly 40,000 basalt columns formed naturally from volcanic activity rise along the coast of County Antrim in Northern Ireland. Minus, that is, the one found outside of Charleston’s historic Hibernian Hall. This stack of stones is steeped in Irish folklore, much like the hero they're connected to, and hides in plain sight.
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FROM THE ARCHIVES
Dino-Sized Mystery
For the last century or so there has been a paleontological debate surrounding a single, pointy-toothed dinosaur skull that came out of the Montana rock in 1942. It looked a lot like that most famous of dinos, Tyrannosaurus rex, except much smaller. Eventually it was given a separate genus, Nanotyrannus—“little tyrant”—but some believed it was just a juvenile T. rex all along. Two more recently excavated individuals could settle the debate for good, and potentially offer insight into how dinosaurs grew and matured.
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BANGOR, MAINE
Stephen King’s House
Horror author Stephen King was born in Maine and has used the state as the setting for many of his stories. Despite his fame and wealth, he still lives in his home state, in a rather distinctive mansion just outside of downtown Bangor.
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ATLAS OBSCURA TRIPS
Chiseled in Stone: Armenia's Ancient Roots and Soviet-era Relics
Armenia is a country with an ancient, rich, complex, and, at times, tragic history. And yet it has a story to share of resilience, exuberance, and natural beauty. This exciting journey seeks out the medieval remnants and enduring legacies of one of the earliest Christian civilizations, especially in Etchmiadzin, the spiritual capital of the country, and the spectacular history-filled Debed Canyon.
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