Drink Like a Founding Father
Both to make a dent in the fledgling nation’s lingering Revolutionary War debts and curb the drinking habits of its population, Hamilton suggested slapping a tax on domestically distilling spirits.
Hope Slide
Debris was continuing to fall across the road, and a truck driver who came up while the people were trying to free their stuck car realized this indicated further sliding was highly probable.
Were the Salem Witch Trials Ruff on Dogs?
Nearly every history of Salem recounts how when Samuel Parris’s daughters were having terrible fits that led people to believe they were bewitched, Tituba, the enslaved woman who lived in the household, baked a “witch cake” using urine from the afflicted girls and fed it to the family’s dog.
Black Swan Hotel
Spend time strolling around the pub, drink in hand reading the history of these motorbikes, admiring the machines themselves and the signage and posters that are a part of this collection in the center of Bendigo.
Cascata Diamantina (Diamantina Waterfall)
You can go to the waterfall by bike or car (search for "cascata da Baronesa" on google maps to find the directions).
10 red flags to look for when booking a hotel
Cue the worst travel experience of my life: literal towers of bugs climbing up the door frames, flying cockroaches, a blizzard of insects as we ate dinner – with some landing in my dahl.
Paseo del Sistema Solar
In 2007, GĂłmez-Cambronero, a professor at Wright State University in Ohio, created the first design for this project, which scales the size of the planets and their distance from the sun for the city of Manzanares.
New York’s Sullivan Catskills
Enjoy farm-fresh 3-course lunches and dinners from $29.95-$44.95 at Blue Fox Motel, Cellaio, Kenoza Hall, Lotus, Roscoe Mountain Club, Seminary Hill Orchard & Cidery, Tavern on Main, The Arnold House, The DeBruce, The Heron Restaurant, The Homestead Restaurant+Lounge, and Yagsur’s Café at the Museum at Bethel Woods.
City of Rocks
Massive granite formations standing hundreds of feet tall, some as ancient as 2.5 billion years old—Idaho’s City of Rocks has some of the most dramatic landscapes you’ll find on a U.S. natural reserve.
Hagerman Fossil Beds
Two of the most notable are the Platygonus pearcei (a type of peccary or skunk pig) and Borophagus hilli also known as “The Bone Crusher” (a dog-like North American scavenger carnivore similar in role and purpose to hyenas in Africa today).
Emerald Creek Garnet Area
The phenomenon, known as asterism, is caused by rutile (a mineral consisting of titanium dioxide) needle formations within the stone creating a stunning optical display.
The SS United States Heads Into Unknown Waters
Though there is a danger in the wistful nostalgia that romanticizes the grandeur of past decades without also adjusting for social and technological progress, it’s hard not to draw a direct contrast between a period where our constructed world was built to withstand centuries and the present, where planned obsolescence is the norm.