There may not be anyrealmermaids swimming in Lake Michigan—but those in the know traveling down Lake Shore Drive through Chicago's South Side will head to the southern tip of Oakwood Beach to find theSecret Mermaid, a stone figure that was surreptitiously sculpted out of limestone by four ar...
- Address: 16501 Norwood Road, Woodlawn Manor Cultural Park Ashton-Sandy Spring, Maryland, 20860 - Want to visit votes on Atlas Obscura: 994 - Been here votes on Atlas Obscura: 127 - Rarity ratio: 7.8 Althoughthere's no evidencethat any of the structures at the Woodlawn Manor (or its ow...
June 4th, and Sunday, June 5th from noon to 10 pm each day. The event will be held in Portage Park (4000 North Milwaukee Avenue in Chicago).
This early version of an automatic car offered no setting for “park”; instead, the driver was supposed to put the car in reverse and then turn it off. Gas prices fell again this year, fairly substantially, and though the U.S. had not yet joined World War II, the nation was in a...
The oldest covered bridge in the United States can be found on the grounds of Glimmerglass State Park in Cooperstown. At 53-feet across it is also one of the shortest. The bridge is located at the historic Hyde Hall mansion. It was built in 1825, restored in 1867, and listed on the ...
Maybe this news hits you as a bit of a surprise, as it did our own Joe Dredge when I told him about the Chicago Cubs' price structure. Joe, like several others I spoke with all said the same thing: I thought it would be the Yankees.
Well, the spoon may be a future project, but you can find a knife that was made by the 2021 class of Franklin-Simpson. It is the world's largest at 24-feet tall and is in the Blackjack Sculpture Park. I guess the students' art projects have become so popular, the town has created...
Concentration of DMSO in the experiments was maintained at less than 0.01%, which was not able induce cell growth, differentiation, or death. hTERT shRNA plasmid was procured from Santa Cruz Biotechnology (Santa Cruz, CA, USA). miR-138 mimic was purchased from Dharmacon (Chicago, IL, USA)....
- Address: 16501 Norwood Road, Woodlawn Manor Cultural Park Ashton-Sandy Spring, Maryland, 20860 - Want to visit votes on Atlas Obscura: 994 - Been here votes on Atlas Obscura: 127 - Rarity ratio: 7.8 Although there's no evidence that any of the structures at the Woodlawn Manor (or...
As Thomas Kuhn (1996), Norwood Hanson (1958) and other theorists of science have shown, observation is influenced by the paradigms dominating a scientific community. As Hanson (1958: 19) puts it, “seeing is a ‘theory laden’ undertaking.” As expertise in most disciplines is linked to pos...