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Cara Giaimo

Joined Atlas Obscura in 2015

former staff writer, forever fan // @cjgiaimo // caragiaimo (at) gmail (dot) com

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A better sweet potato roasting method.

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Fleeting Wonders: A Sweet Potato Silo That Has Been On Fire Since Thanksgiving

By Cara Giaimo

Picnickers in a cemetery in Petrograd in 1919. Hanging out in graveyards is a Russian tradition.

cemeteries

Fleeting Wonders: Cemetery WiFi in Moscow

By Cara Giaimo

Atlas Obscura Gift Guide: 8 Presents for the Exterior Decorator

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Atlas Obscura Gift Guide: 8 Presents for the Exterior Decorator

By Cara Giaimo

Fleeting Wonders: A Bus-Sized Polar Bear, Powered By Activists

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Fleeting Wonders: A Bus-Sized Polar Bear, Powered By Activists

By Cara Giaimo

Allen Funt pulls his infamous reading-over-the-shoulder gag on a Muscovite in 1961.

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How Candid Camera Spied On Muscovites At The Height Of The Cold War

By Cara Giaimo

This Red Army Memorial, in Skaryszewski Park in Warsaw, was removed by Polish officials this past July.

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Fleeting Wonders: All The Soviet Monuments In Poland

By Cara Giaimo

The Out Skerries post office is facing some busy days.

islands

Fleeting Wonders: Send Holiday Cheer To an Island-Bound Schoolboy

By Cara Giaimo

Athanasius Kircher's singing menagerie, the first known example of musically notated birdsong.

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The World War II Tool That Changed How We Listen To Birdsong

By Cara Giaimo

An eruption at Nishinoshima in October.

volcanoes

Fleeting Wonders: This Japanese Island Ate Another Island

By Cara Giaimo

Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie–the blue-blood ancestor of the turducken.

food

How Turducken Went From Food Of Kings To Poultry of the Populace

By Cara Giaimo

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s both at the same time!

animals

Nobody Wins The War Between Birds and Planes

By Cara Giaimo

Disaffected teens in Berlin carry on a storied tradition.

language

How Humans Went From Hissing Like Geese To Flipping The Bird

By Cara Giaimo

One Chris Denorfia bobblehead–about 0.15% of the original haul.

sports

Fleeting Wonders: 600 Chris Denorfia Bobbleheads

By Cara Giaimo

Fifth-place entry "Metempsychosis," by Yi Ye, is a sane home for fish.

water

Aquascapers Are Creating Miniature Atlantean Fantasy Worlds

By Cara Giaimo

A crashed bus in Ukraine.

transportation

The Zombie Bus Scam That Just Won't Die

By Cara Giaimo

A honeybee at work.

food

Your New Favorite Honey Is Made Out Of Bug Poop and Bee Vomit

By Cara Giaimo

Dairy cows eye their potential future.

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When Pigs and Other Farm Animals Fly

By Cara Giaimo

A particularly saucer-y lenticular cloud, over Dublin in June.

news

Found: Cloud UFOs Invade Cape Town

By Cara Giaimo

Fleeting Wonders: The World's Fastest Lawnmower

news

Fleeting Wonders: The World's Fastest Lawnmower

By Cara Giaimo

The Simple Sabotage Field Manual, declassified in the 1970s.

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The Early Spy Manual That Turned Bad Middle Management Into An Espionage Tactic

By Cara Giaimo

The bottom label.

news

Found: An Arizona Mystery Machine

By Cara Giaimo

A punkin, mid-chunk.

sports

The Explosive Past And Uncertain Future Of The All-American Punkin Chunk

By Cara Giaimo

A computer, circa 1988.

computers

In 1988, One Rogue Worm Shut Down 10 Percent Of The Internet

By Cara Giaimo

This undead CGI skeleton warrior, made with a program called DAZ studio, is not very scary.

art

Spooky Scary Skeletons, From The Bible To Tumblr

By Cara Giaimo

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