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A deaf girl using Nicaraguan Sign Language at the Esquelitas de Bluefields, Managua, Nicaragua, 1999.

children

How Deaf Children in Nicaragua Created a New Language

It happened on the playground.

Shoshi Parks
Atlas Obscura
July 13, 2018
What's your go-to toast?

show & tell

Send Us Your Favorite Toasts and Cheers!

"Thanks a little, thanks the most, please just share your drinking toasts."

Eric Grundhauser
Atlas Obscura
July 12, 2018
Women preparing herring for shipment across Europe.

fishing

The Busy, Briny Lives of Iceland's Herring Girls

From 1903 until 1969, women flocked to Siglufjörður to spend long hours gutting and packing fish.

Tory Bilski
Atlas Obscura
July 12, 2018
Traces of lemons and other citrus fruits, depicted in this 1659 still life by the Dutch painter Willem Kalf, were found in the sample from the latrine.

diets

Revelations From a Wine Barrel Filled With Renaissance Poo

Centuries-old latrines in Denmark drop big hints about diets, trade, and health.

Jessica Leigh Hester
Atlas Obscura
July 11, 2018
Sarah Adams and a rescued plant.

sanctuaries

Canada’s Ultimate Plant Mom Will Take Your Unwanted Shrubs

And your irises, rosebushes, and spruce trees, too.

Cara Giaimo
Atlas Obscura
July 11, 2018
Ghost dunes at Noctis Labyrinthus. Boxes B and C show close-ups.

mars

Found: Ancient 'Ghost Dunes' on Mars

There might be surprises inside.

Cara Giaimo
Atlas Obscura
July 11, 2018
These marks reveal the location of a large prehistoric enclosure in the Vale of Glamorgan.

hidden

The Hidden Cropmarks of Wales, Revealed by a Drought

These unmistakable squares and circles are the remnants of settlements from as far back as the Bronze Age.

Sarah Laskow
Atlas Obscura
July 11, 2018
North Atlantic right whales.

whales

Rediscovering the Forgotten Whales of the Mediterranean Sea

Researchers uncovered evidence of the cetaceans at sites connected to the Roman fish-processing industry.

Sarah Laskow
Atlas Obscura
July 11, 2018
Three actors in use pie throwing for comedic effect in the 1947 flick 'The Perils of Pauline.'

silent film

How Pie-Throwing Became a Comedy Standard

One film studio in Los Angeles pioneered the trope of flying pies.

Anne Ewbank
Atlas Obscura
July 10, 2018
A pod of narwhals in central Baffin Bay.

whales

Narwhals Are Real, And They Could Be in Real Trouble

As Arctic waters warm, shipping traffic is rapidly increasing in their favored habitats.

Jessica Leigh Hester
Atlas Obscura
July 10, 2018
The oldest intact pigments ever found are about the color of a sunset.

pink

Found: The First Color Made By a Living Thing

It's 1.1 billion years old, and it's bright pink.

Cara Giaimo
Atlas Obscura
July 10, 2018
Saturn and Enceladus, its sixth-largest moon, are linked by invisible plasma waves, generated in part by plumes of water vapor depicted in this still from a NASA animation.

planets

Listen to the Mournful Wails of Planets and Moons

A saturnine soundtrack.

Jessica Leigh Hester
Atlas Obscura
July 10, 2018
Hot dogs are among the pork products mentioned in the suit.

hot dogs

Consumers Are Accusing U.S. Pork Producers of Running a Price-Fixing Cartel

A lawsuit alleges that people have been overpaying since 2009.

Paula Mejia
Atlas Obscura
July 9, 2018
The oak is visible on the right of this illustration of Argo Navis from Uranographia, by Johannes Hevelius, 1690.

constellations

The Lost Constellation Meant to Honor a King’s Escape

The oak tree that sheltered Charles II once had a place in the night sky.

Jessica Leigh Hester
Atlas Obscura
July 9, 2018
Inside a Victorian Photo Shoot at Stonehenge

surveyors

Inside a Victorian Photo Shoot at Stonehenge

Early images of people enjoying and surveying the monument were recently released to the public for the first time.

Cara Giaimo
Atlas Obscura
July 9, 2018
A contemporary Tour of Flanders rider zooms through a green landscape.

bicycles

What Footage From 1980s Bike Races Can Teach Us About Climate Change

Ignore the Lycra—look at the flowers.

Cara Giaimo
Atlas Obscura
July 9, 2018
The calving front of the Helheim glacier.

glaciers

See a Giant Iceberg Fall Into the Sea

Scientists filmed the break-up of a Greenland glacier.

Sarah Laskow
Atlas Obscura
July 9, 2018
Museum visitors brought all sorts of finds spanning thousands of years.

paleontology

A Museum's Treasured Tradition of Identifying Fossils for the Public

Including the occasional turd.

Jessica Leigh Hester
Atlas Obscura
July 6, 2018
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