Honestly, just go check what the Machines de LâĂle do because this is like the best thing ever.
Theyâre currently working on LâArbre aux hĂŠrons which is going to be a fucking metal tree thatâs going to be like 25m high and which is going to have these in it
(there also going to be ants in it and caterpillars and more cool stuff)
Thereâs also Le Carrousel des Mondes Marins that is actually finished and is basically the coolest carrousel of the world and iâll fight you in the pit if you donât believe me.
Nantes is one of the best city ever (yeah iâm totally biased but i donât care) and if you want to come in France, forget Paris, come see us (beside itâs like one hour from the sea and just under Britanny), weâre nice and weâve got les petites beurres LU
Oh! Oh! I lived pretty near Nantes in France before I moved to Canada, and whenever I went there to see my friends, weâd check out Les Machines de lâĂŽle (because I was obsessed)!Â
Letâs not forget about the most famous one!
Lâ ĂlĂŠphant :DÂ
Yes it walks, yes you can ârideâ it, YES IT BLOWS WATER
Last time I went there the tree was well advanced too, and the carousel is just magnificent. Iâm gonna emphasize the previous comment:Â If you go to France, definitely check out Nantes and its machines!
Whatâs really wild is that the native people literally told the Europeans âthey walkedâ when asked how the statues were moved. The Europeans were like âlol these backwards heathens and their fairy tales guess itâs gonna always be a mystery!â
Oral history from various First Nations tribes in the Pacific Northwest contained stories about a massive earthquake/tsunami hitting the coast, but no one listened to them until scientists discovered physical evidence of quakes from the Cascadia fault line.
Roopkund Lake AKA âSkeleton Lakeâ in the Himalayas in India is eerie because it was discovered with hundreds of skeletal remains and for the life of them researchers couldnât figure out what it was that killed them. For decades the âmysteryâ went unsolved.
Until they finally payed closer attention to local songs and legend that all essentially said âYah the Goddess Nanda Devi got mad and sent huge heave stones down to kill themâ. That was consistent with huge contusions found all on their neck and shoulders and the weather patterns of the area, which are prone to huge & inevitably deadly goddamn hailstones. https://www.facebook.com/atlasobscura/videos/10154065247212728/
Literally these legends were past down for over a thousand years and it still took researched 50 to âfigure outâ the âmysteryâ. đ
Langston Hughes' Harlem home has shot up in value in recent years. A group of writers is raising money to save it from being turned into condos or coffee shops.
Ivy still grows on the front of Langston Hughesâ home in Harlem. There arenât many houses like it left in New York City. Real estate agents estimate itâs worth over $3 million.
And thatâs before anyone talks about the fact that one of Americaâs great writers â a hero of the Harlem Renaissance â lived there for much of the 1950s and 60s, until he passed away. His typerwriter is still on a shelf.
Pressure to sell âHughes Houseâ is escalating. The current owner listed it for a mere $1 million a few years ago, but it didnât sell. For now, the home sits empty. The owner doesnât live there. No one does. Paint is chipping off the front steps.
Renee Watson thinks itâs a tragedy. Thatâs why she started an Indiegogo campaign to raise $150,000 to rent the home and turn it into a cultural center honoring Hughes.
âThe more Harlem changes, the more Iâm motivated to do something,â says Watson, a writer who lives nearby, and has watched gentrification flood in. A Whole Foods is set to open in the area early next year. Realtors predict prices will skyrocket even further.
âWe â the community â must hold on to the space,â says Watson. âI feel a sense of urgency.â
So far, the initiative to save Hughes House has raised just over $25,000.
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