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• Civic Musical Road (Classic)

  The grooves cut in this road outside Lancaster, CA play the finale of the William Tell Overture.  READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/civic-musical-road

  4 jul 2025 664 sec.

• The Cigar “Readers” of Cuba

  If you were to visit a cigar factory in Cuba, you’d hear something unexpected: the sound of the daily news report, or maybe a poem or a novel, being read aloud. The cigar “reader” is a tradition held by just a handful of people, and it...

  3 jul 2025 1485 sec.

• The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

  One of the many objects that went down with the ship during the sinking of the Titanic was a beautiful, jewel-encrusted edition of a poetry book called the “Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.” The Rubaiyat was probably the most famous work of...

  2 jul 2025 889 sec.