The many pleasures of Sardinian throat singing

The sword of Goujian, botanical photographs, and the United Nations ceiling. Email not displaying correctly? View in your browser. October 11, 2019 Sardinian Throat Singing Sardinia’s fiercely unusual musical style cantu a tenòre, a type of throat singing, goes back hundreds of years. Its style evokes the sound of political punk, a barbershop quartet, a Mongolian drone, and a bar band, and requires the unique skill of its singers producing two notes at once. Read More → Sword of Goujian This ancient sword lay in a waterlogged tomb along the Zhang River Reservoir in Jingzhou, China, for 2,500 years, but somehow managed to remain relatively untarnished and impressively sharp. Read more → Atlas Obscura Trips Arctic Expedition Join us on a 14-day trip next July as we journey with scientists, historians, Inuit artists, and culturalists to three distinct Arctic regions on this exciting voyage aboard the Ocean Endeavour expedition ship. Best of all: Book before October 31st and get 15 percent off. Learn more → Botanical Blueprints of the Past In the summer of 1929, 12-year-old Helen Chase Gage created the first of two albums of botanical cyanotypes. Using plants she found on her family’s summer estate, Gage prepared a stunning series of photograms that trace the buds of a larkspur, the curl of a leaf, and a blob of nasturtium seemingly floating in a pool of the deepest Prussian blue. Read more → Community Incredible Islands Whether it’s home to one of the most remote bars on the planet, a shockingly large snake population, or a collection of ramshackle cliff dwellings made of recycled materials, islands all over the planet hold some incredible curiosities. We want to hear about your favorites. Share now → GENEVA, SWITZERLAND United Nations Ceiling Spanish artist Miquel Barceló and his 20 assistants used more than 100 tons of paint to transform the United Nations’ 16,000-square-foot dome ceiling, purposefully choosing pigments from all over the world. Read more → For Sale: A Pink Temple to Temperance The Pink Palace in the St. James–Belgravia Historic District of Old Louisville, is a bubblegum-colored, six-bedroom mansion, complete with a turret and elaborate decorative glass. It’s currently up for auction and whoever moves into the stately place will inherit a legacy of both virtue and alleged vice. Read more → Visit AtlasObscura.com · View in Browser · Unsubscribe · See All Newsletters 61 Greenpoint Ave #622, Brooklyn, NY 11222