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In 2015, Atlas Obscura raised its first round of major funding, securing $2 million from a range of investors and angels including The New York Times. [6] In September 2016, the company published its first book, Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders written by Foer, Thuras, and Ella Morton under Workman Publishing ...
David A. Plotz [2] (born January 31, 1970) [3] is an American journalist and former CEO of Atlas Obscura, an online magazine devoted to discovery and exploration. [4] A writer with Slate since its inception in 1996, Plotz was the online magazine's editor from June 2008 until July 2014, [5] succeeding Jacob Weisberg. [6]
Joshua Foer (born September 23, 1982) is a freelance journalist and author living in Brookline, Massachusetts, with a primary focus on science.He was the 2006 USA Memory Champion, which was described in his 2011 book, Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything.
Warren Webster is CEO of travel and exploration company Atlas Obscura. [1] He was previously the president and co-founder of Patch Media, a network of more than 900 local news sites launched in 2007 and sold in 2009 to AOL. Webster departed Patch in 2014 to become COO of goop, the lifestyle company founded by actress Gwyneth Paltrow. [2]
Cinco Saltos in Río Negro has been reported to have a number of ghosts, most of them reportedly the result of witchcraft.In 2009, an intact corpse of an 8- to 12-year-old girl who had died in the 1930s was found in a cemetery ossuary.
Atlas Obscura is a travel website founded in 2009 by author Joshua Foer and documentary film-maker Dylan Thuras. [1] It catalogs unusual and obscure travel destinations with user-generated content. [ 2 ] HouseOfChange ( talk ) 09:45, 18 September 2017 (UTC) [ reply ]
Talossa, also known as the Kingdom of Talossa (Talossan: Regipäts Talossan [ˈred͡ʒipæt͡s tɐɫɔˈsan]), is one of the earliest micronations – founded in 1979 by then-14-year-old Robert Ben Madison of Milwaukee and at first confined to his bedroom; he adopted the name after discovering that the word means "inside the house" in Finnish.
Brittany Nicole "Nico" Cox is an antiquarian horologist based in Seattle, Washington.She owns and operates a business called Memoria Technica. She specializes in the area of conservation and restoration of antique automata, mechanical music objects, complicated clocks and watches, and mechanical magic.