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Recent Activity
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January 31, 2011
oksana_m
added The Cairo Genizah
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January 30, 2011
oksana_m
added Pullman Historic District
First planned industrial community in the United States
Built in 1880 on 4,000 acres of land that was outside of the Chicago city limits Pullman, Illinois, was the first industrial planned community built in the United States.
Built by George... »
Architectural Oddities | Edited by oksana_m, Nicholas Jackson and others
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January 29, 2011
oksana_m
has been to New York Transit Museum
Ride the subways of yesteryear
The New York Transit Museum is operated by the folks who know it best - the MTA. Who better to collect and display the history of the New York Transit system?
The museum features "Steel, Stone,... »
Unique Collections | Edited by M Rebekah Otto
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January 27, 2011
oksana_m
added Maltese Catacomb Complexes
Burial grounds for more than 1,000 bodies deep under the modern town of Rabat
From the 3rd to the 6th centuries CE, the Roman city of Melite developed a complex system of burial grounds on its outskirts under the modern town of Rabat, a village outside of Mdina, the... »
Natural Wonders, Curious Caves, Memento Mori, Catacombs, Crypts, & Cemeteries, Cultures and Civilizations , Rites and Rituals, Architectural Oddities, Curious Places of Worship, Subterranean Sites | Edited by oksana_m, Nicholas Jackson and 2 others
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January 19, 2011
oksana_m
added St. George Icon Museum
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January 19, 2011
oksana_m
liked Pneumatic System of the New York Public Library
One of the few places in Manhattan which still employs a pneumatic system
When a young man in Manhattan writes a letter to his girl in Brooklyn, the love letter gets blown to her through a pneumatic tube—pfft—just like that. — E.B. White, “Here Is New York”
The... »
Inspired Inventions, Retro-Tech, Repositories of Knowledge | Edited by michelle
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January 18, 2011
oksana_m
added Mir Diamond Mine
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January 18, 2011
oksana_m
added Amir Timur (Tamerlane) Museum
Looking for a unifying history, Uzbekistan finds its answer in a 14th Century Turco-Mongol conqueror... despite the fact he wasn't Uzbek
It can be difficult for a country created out of whole cloth to find a unifying identity. Such is the case with Uzbekistan.
One of two doubly landlocked countries in the world -- a landlocked... »
Unique Collections, Strange Statues | Edited by oksana_m and Dylan
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January 17, 2011
oksana_m
liked Atlantic Avenue Tunnel
In the middle of downtown Brooklyn lies a 165 year old secret hidden right below the surface (closed to the public indefinitely)
UPDATE: Closed by New York department of transportation until 2018
Unbeknownst to the thousands of people who walk and drive along the busy streets of downtown Brooklyn every day, they are... »
Subterranean Sites | Edited by Dylan
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January 13, 2011
oksana_m
added Christ Church in Jerusalem
Oldest Protestant church in the Middle East, designed to resemble a synagogue
The 19th century was marked by British colonial and evangelical ambitions in lands controlled by the crumbling Ottoman empire. Christ Church was established on land purchased by the Church of... »
Architectural Oddities, Curious Places of Worship | Edited by oksana_m, mrobscurity and others