Beinecke Library, Yale, USA
This illustrated manuscript keeps a handwriting that we do not know how to read
Preserved at Yale, the Voynich manuscript remains undecrypted.
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Saint-Jean-de-Luz, Drome, France
A stone on its way triggered thirty-three years of construction
Ferdinand Cheval transformed an idea born during his tour into an ideal Palace.
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Stanstead/Derby Line, Canada and United States
In this theatre, the stage is in Canada and part of the public in the United States
The border crosses the Haskell Theatre.
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Paris, France
Eiffel had an apartment at the top... but no bedroom
The accommodation reserved by Gustave Eiffel was mainly used to receive and work.
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West Orange, NJ, United States
These 1890 dolls had a real voice recorded in the body.
A tiny phonograph made Edison’s commercial dolls speak.
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Newport, Wales, United Kingdom
On this bridge, the crossing is done in a suspended nacelle
The Newport ferry bridge moves its cargo under a high structure.
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Broom Bridge, Dublin
He engraved a mathematical discovery on a bridge.
William Rowan Hamilton associated his discovery of the quaternions with a walk in 1843.
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Livermore, CA, United States
This light bulb installed in 1901 has gone through several generations of firefighters
Livermore's lamp owes its fame to its longevity, not to a total absence of cuts.
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Prague, Czech Republic
The legend of this clock is wrong about its first builder
The Prague Astronomical Clock has a different real story than its most famous one.
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Jeju, Republic of Korea
In Jeju, these women work underwater without an oxygen bottle
In Jeju, freediving is associated with a collective culture.
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