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Dirty Dick’s Crab House, Nags Head, NC

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Although the name really threw me off quite a bit, I must tell you about my visit to a restaurant during my trip to the Outer Banks in North Carolina called Dirty Dick’s Crab House. To begin, this is the marketing slogan found on all the restaurants brochures and menus:<br>
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Dirty Dick’s Crab House, Nags Head, NC

Although the name really threw me off quite a bit, I must tell you about my visit to a restaurant during my trip to the Outer Banks in Nort...

A Town called Dildo

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Dildo is a town on the island of Newfoundland, in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. <br />
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It is located on the southeastern Dildo Arm of Trinity Bay about 60 kilometres west of St. John's. South Dildo is a neighbouring unincorporated community.<br />
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A Town called Dildo

Dildo is a town on the island of Newfoundland, in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. It is located on the southeastern D...

It Is Almost Summer in Norilsk

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Norilsk (Russian: Норильск; IPA: [nɐˈrʲilʲsk]) is an industrial city in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, located above the Arctic Circle, east of the Yenisei River and south of the western Taymyr Peninsula. It has a permanent population of 175,000. With temporary inhabitants included, its population reaches 220,000.<br>
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Norilsk was closed in November 2001 to all non-Russians, except for Belarusians.It is the world's northernmost city with more than 100,000 inhabitants and the second largest city (after Murmansk) inside the Arctic Circle. Norilsk, Yakutsk, and Vorkuta are the only large cities in the continuous permafrost zone.<br>
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It Is Almost Summer in Norilsk

Norilsk (Russian: Норильск; IPA: [nɐˈrʲilʲsk]) is an industrial city in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, located above the Arctic Circle, east of ...

Sulabh International Museum of Toilets

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In a quiet courtyard in the suburbs of New Delhi, inside a low-slung concrete building, the assistant curator and guides of Sulabh International Museum of Toilets eagerly awaits for visitors. The museum is small, with just one long room, but it’s possibly the world’s only toilet museum, and it’s location in the Indian capital is all the more important.<br />
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Hygiene and sanitation is one of India’s most pressing issues. An astonishing 60% of the country’s 1.2 billion people defecate in the open because they do not have access to safe and private toilets. The numbers were probably worse in 1970 when Dr. Bindeshwar Pathak, a humanitarian and social worker, introduced pay-to-use public toilets in a small village in Patna, Bihar. At first the people laughed at his idea, but now over 15 million people across the country use public toilets constructed by Sulabh International, a non-profit he founded. <br />
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Sulabh International’s mission is to promote safe sanitation habits and provide public toilet facilities throughout India. It builds and maintains hundreds of public toilets in major cities, including those outside tourist attractions such as the Red Fort in Delhi and the Taj Mahal in Agra, as well as towns and villages across the vast nation. With 50,000 volunteers devoted to the cause, Sulabh International is India’s largest nonprofit organization.<br />
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The museum, located in the offices of the organization, traces the history and development of toilet system around the world from the brick commodes of the ancient Harappan settlement near Pakistan, five thousand years ago, through the Middle Ages to the modern day toilet with electrically controlled flush system, through a series of privies, chamber-pots, toilet furniture, bidets and water closets, accompanied by a healthy number of images, drawings, photographs, and graphics. The museum also provides a chronological account of developments relating to technology, toilet related social customs, toilet etiquettes, prevailing sanitary conditions and legislative efforts of the times.<br />
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Among its most prized possessions is a flush pot devised in 1596 by Sir John Harrington, a courtier of Queen Elizabeth I, a gem-studded bided of Queen Victoria, table-top toilets from England and a couple of highly decorated commodes from Austria. Some of the toilets of these period were disguised. There is a French one that looks like a stack of books, and an English one which resembles a treasure chest.<br />
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Hanging on the walls are display boards with poems, comics, jokes and cartoons related to toilet humor. But one of its most amusing displays is a full-size replica throne from the court of the French King, Louis XIII, with a hidden commode underneath it. The King used it to relive himself while still in court.<br />
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The Sulabh International Museum of Toilets was opened in 1992, and since then it has welcomed some 100,000 visitors. <br />
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The Montreal Biosphere, located on Saint Helen's Island in Montreal, Canada, is a museum dedicated to the environment. It was designed and created by visionary architect Richard Buckminster Fuller originally as the pavilion of the United States for the 1967 World Fair.<br />
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The Biosphere was the culmination of over twenty years of Fuller’s obsession with geodesic domes, a structure that emerged from his interests in material efficiency, structural integrity, and modularity. Fuller wished to demonstrate that it was possible to create a livable space using only one fifth of the materials normally used in conventional architecture.<br />
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The enormous hemispherical structure soars sixty-three meters high and is so spacious that it comfortably housed the seven-story exhibition building including a forty-meter long escalator, the longest ever built at that time. The steel-framed sphere was covered with transparent acrylic panels. To control the indoor ambient temperature, Fuller designed an apparatus composed of mobile triangular panels that would move over the inner surface of the dome following the sun. Unfortunately the system never worked properly. Instead valves were installed in the center of the acrylic panels for the pavilion to ventilate. The United States pavilion became the most popular at the fair, and was visited by 11 million visitors in six months.<br />
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The pavilion was originally designed to be dismantled. However, to cut cost, the metal tubes were welded and not bolted as proposed by Fuller. This made the structure impossible to dismantle. So after the fair ended, the US government donated its pavilion to the City of Montréal. For several years, the Biosphere was used for recreational activities and as a public attraction. For some time it became an oasis of plants and birds.<br />
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In 1976, during repair works, the structure's acrylic sheet caught fire and was completely destroyed. The sheet was never replaced. After the fire, the dome was abandoned for fifteen years until the city decided to repurpose it as an environmental exhibition space dedicated to the water ecosystems of the Great Lakes-Saint Lawrence River regions. The museum was opened in 1995.<br />
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Montreal Biosphere

Photo credit: leo gonzales/Flickr The Montreal Biosphere, located on Saint Helen's Island in Montreal, Canada, is a museum dedicated t...

Hamilton Pool

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm9AaSAjZJH0E74PX62FjPVoQPgWG1_N10URvkCx4ut-YYWJ-PtLqoqAVRECQYmaWidHdhaIYWXXm4pVma5RsANla24exlV2ddHK8qMaO5Zh48obeT1PCtTUUz9O_S53X6Emr8eoep3ln_/s1600/Hamilton+Pool.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm9AaSAjZJH0E74PX62FjPVoQPgWG1_N10URvkCx4ut-YYWJ-PtLqoqAVRECQYmaWidHdhaIYWXXm4pVma5RsANla24exlV2ddHK8qMaO5Zh48obeT1PCtTUUz9O_S53X6Emr8eoep3ln_/s640/Hamilton+Pool.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br />Just 23 miles west of Austin, Texas, is a breathtaking natural oasis emerging out of the hill country chaparral.<br /><br /><center><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="480" src="https://www.google.com/maps/embed?pb=!1m18!1m12!1m3!1d2120.681328033094!2d-98.12925933487787!3d30.342280981774984!2m3!1f0!2f0!3f0!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!3m3!1m2!1s0x865b3e223885611b%3A0x5499ee6de0f54dd7!2sHamilton+Pool!5e1!3m2!1shr!2sba!4v1459859792152" style="border: 0;" width="640"></iframe></center><br />Hamilton Pool is a natural spring formed in the limestone bedrock and fed by an underground river, which also feeds the small tributaries and lush flora surrounding the pool. The abundant freshwater has allowed a diverse population of trees and vegetation to emerge surrounding the pool, forming what is now a protected nature preserve.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzEu22FfBCizb7GOlNRzwnUwHZQo9C-GgQ26mSA_tfona-iWKvjS59DZNEOvX5EA0v_pblz77po4KbbR5ICh1TEvRlzIwUxIaQqdmcMARKBv-cGWdKQL-CIVvfdN8V4emwqyhj24b6cNxY/s1600/Hamilton+Pool-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzEu22FfBCizb7GOlNRzwnUwHZQo9C-GgQ26mSA_tfona-iWKvjS59DZNEOvX5EA0v_pblz77po4KbbR5ICh1TEvRlzIwUxIaQqdmcMARKBv-cGWdKQL-CIVvfdN8V4emwqyhj24b6cNxY/s640/Hamilton+Pool-2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br />The first thing visitors marvel at is the deep overhang etched into the far wall of the pool — remnants of a natural dome that once concealed the entire grotto underground, until it collapsed more than a century ago. The sheer cavern now provides deep shade and rocky exploration for visitors.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_4Ud5OwCFwExfqi9RYty3lRYvaW1OTnJgRa7LiLzC6fFetQJYoq_RJsD2SM3Q1UbshEmGY1xrCL86eh3hq3XHiM8sW3g_PpElI8vcdhLEzvvmIyUzP1ITQ0YMfr9ZcioAmRRQq98mPJzH/s1600/Hamilton+Pool-3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_4Ud5OwCFwExfqi9RYty3lRYvaW1OTnJgRa7LiLzC6fFetQJYoq_RJsD2SM3Q1UbshEmGY1xrCL86eh3hq3XHiM8sW3g_PpElI8vcdhLEzvvmIyUzP1ITQ0YMfr9ZcioAmRRQq98mPJzH/s640/Hamilton+Pool-3.jpg" width="426" /></a></div><br />Waterfalls routinely fall from the lip of the overhang, flowing down the 50-foot drop and splashing into the cool water below, making this a beautiful and refreshing location for sunbaked summer adventurers and swimmers.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjA5WtKrMUvUZqHZba4b6Ev8Mq-O4pTVJ1W7qAtCe6TTes9tJO85LxrLKvK9PlYIrkWjfHbpaAWMthn0XnaKiMNsngQ3A_udBLl-O5MRYfhtIGRb0GKgK-f7ZOPfXsEJ06EIsTEiBy1LNsh/s1600/Hamilton+Pool-4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjA5WtKrMUvUZqHZba4b6Ev8Mq-O4pTVJ1W7qAtCe6TTes9tJO85LxrLKvK9PlYIrkWjfHbpaAWMthn0XnaKiMNsngQ3A_udBLl-O5MRYfhtIGRb0GKgK-f7ZOPfXsEJ06EIsTEiBy1LNsh/s640/Hamilton+Pool-4.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><center><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="480" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/BpXDaXOu48s?rel=0&controls=0&showinfo=0" width="640"></iframe></center><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/hamilton-pool">Source</a></span>

Hamilton Pool

Just 23 miles west of Austin, Texas, is a breathtaking natural oasis emerging out of the hill country chaparral. Hamilton Pool is a natural ...

The smallest village

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The smallest village

The village of Bourton-on-Water in Gloucestershire, United Kingdom, is the smallest village by the size of its houses and not by the number ...

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