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    Mid-century Legend: Hotel Okura Tokyo

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    Over the last century architectural design in Tokyo has been in a constant state of metamorphosis. A stroll through the country’s largest city confirms...
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    Ochamchire Abkhazia: Casualty of War

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    On the east coast of the Black Sea, about 125 miles (200km) south of Sochi, sits the shell of a once-vibrant town. Ochamchire (also Ochamchira) was...
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    The Glass Bank

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    It might be hard to believe the "Glass Bank" was once a visually stunning piece of architecture. Opened in 1962, the structure was entirely...

    Oklahoma’s Hidden Chalkboards of Yesteryear

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    The Emerson School dates to 1895 and is one of the first public schools built in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The classic building is already...

    The Conservatory Under a Lake

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    Previously Sometimes Interesting featured the story of a twenty-first century swindler and the spoils of his deception. In this post we examine a nineteenth-century...

    Ishi: The Last Wild North American Indian

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    Guest Post Series words by Cary O'Dell It was August of 1911, when Sheriff J.B. Webber of Oroville, California, got word of a strange “savage” found...
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    Uncovering the history of the abandoned, forgotten, and unexplained.