site: reviews — Gedenkstein Melitta Bentz, Königshöhle (graduate from finds)

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@@ -11,4 +11,4 @@ tags: [diagrams, screenshots, sketching, mcp]
 description: "A native macOS drawing app built for the 'just one quick sketch' moment — open onto a blank board, annotate a pasted screenshot, and copy the PNG straight back out."
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-Chalk opens straight onto a blank board: no account, no project to create, no first-run wizard. Paste a screenshot in, mark it up with arrows, boxes and callouts, and copy the result back to the clipboard as a PNG — there is no publish step and no share link to generate before you can send it. It also ships an MCP server, so you can ask Claude to draw the diagram instead of drawing it.
+Chalk opens straight onto a blank board: no account, no project to create, no first-run wizard. Paste a screenshot in, mark it up with arrows, boxes and callouts, and copy the result back to the clipboard as a PNG — there is no publish step and no share link to generate before you can send it. It also ships an MCP server, so Claude can draw the diagram for you instead.
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 name: "Gedenkstein Melitta Bentz"
-subtitle: "The memorial to the woman who fixed coffee with a nail and her sons' blotting paper"
+subtitle: "The memorial to the woman who fixed coffee with a punctured cup and her son's blotting paper"
 date: 2026-07-22
 shortlist: true
+promotedTo: gedenkstein-melitta-bentz-dresden
 link: "https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/gedenkstein-melitta-bentz-memorial-for-the-woman-who-invented-the-coffee-filter"
 linkText: "Atlas Obscura"
 source: "Atlas Obscura"
 topics: [travel-and-places, history-and-archives]
 tags: [dresden, coffee, invention, germany]
-description: "A memorial stone in Dresden-Trachau for Melitta Bentz, who invented the paper coffee filter in 1908 with a nail-punctured pot and blotting paper from her sons' school notebooks."
+description: "A memorial stone in Dresden-Trachau for Melitta Bentz, who invented the paper coffee filter in 1908 with a perforated metal cup and blotting paper from her son's school exercise book."
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-Tired of grounds in her teeth, Melitta Bentz hammered nail holes through the bottom of a pot, cut a disc from the blotting paper in her sons' school notebooks, and poured boiling water through it. She registered the filter with the Imperial Patent Office in 1908 — very few German women held patents then — and started her company the next year on 73 pfennigs of capital. The stone went up in 2020 in Trachau, outside the building her production quickly outgrew.
+Tired of grounds in her teeth, Melitta Bentz punched holes through the bottom of a metal cup, cut a disc from the blotting paper in her son Willy's school exercise book, and poured boiling water through it. She registered the result as a utility model at the Imperial Patent Office in June 1908 — among the first women in Germany to protect an invention of her own — and had her own company by that December, on 72 pfennigs of capital. The stone went up in Trachau in 2020, seventy years to the day after she died.
@@ -10,4 +10,4 @@ tags: [home-automation, privacy, menu-bar, open-source]
 description: "A menu-bar utility that watches CoreAudio and CoreMediaIO directly and fires a webhook the instant your camera or microphone goes live."
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-It listens to CoreAudio and CoreMediaIO registry notifications instead of polling system logs, so it reacts the instant a device switches on and costs almost nothing in CPU. Point it at a Home Assistant webhook and the busy light outside the office door follows your microphone. The same observer catches an app that opened your camera without saying so, and tells you — and any device you don't want counted can be unticked in the menu.
+It listens to CoreAudio and CoreMediaIO registry notifications instead of polling system logs, so it reacts the instant a device switches on and costs almost nothing in CPU. Point it at a Home Assistant webhook and the busy light outside the office door follows your microphone. The same observer catches an app that opened your camera without saying so and tells you; any device you don't want counted can be unticked in the menu.
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 name: "Königshöhle"
-subtitle: "The cave that named a Copper Age culture, with a hole in the roof the Devil is blamed for"
+subtitle: "The cave that lent a Copper Age culture its name, with a hole in the roof the Devil is blamed for"
 date: 2026-07-22
 shortlist: true
+promotedTo: konigshohle-baden-bei-wien
 link: "https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/konigshohle-kings-cave"
 linkText: "Atlas Obscura"
 source: "Atlas Obscura"
 topics: [travel-and-places, history-and-archives]
 tags: [austria, archaeology, caves, folklore]
-description: "A rock formation outside Baden bei Wien whose 1920s excavations gave the central-Danube Copper Age its name — and whose open ceiling has a much better local explanation."
+description: "A cave outside Baden bei Wien whose finds gave the central-Danube Copper Age its name — and whose four-metre ceiling hole has a much better local explanation."
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-Digs here in the 1920s turned up early Neolithic ceramics, a Lengyel clay spoon, Copper Age jewellery and a fragment of a coin from the emperor Gratian; in 1956 the Hungarian archaeologist János Banner named the whole central-Danube Copper Age the *Baden culture* after the town below. The local story is better. The Devil wore the boulder as a hat to show off his strength, God lifted it onto one finger and set it down, and the hole he left is still open to the sky.
+A Baden amateur dug this cave out almost completely in January 1892 and misread what he found; professionals catalogued the material in the 1920s, and the central-Danube Copper Age has been the *Baden culture* ever since, named for the town below. His brother collected the better explanation. The Devil wore the cave's boulder as a hat to show off his strength, God lifted it onto one finger and set it down, and the four-metre hole he left is still open to the sky.
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ linkText: "Atlas Obscura"
 source: "Atlas Obscura"
 topics: [travel-and-places, history-and-archives]
 tags: [indiana, canals, museum, americana]
-description: "Delphi, Indiana keeps a working stretch of the 468-mile Wabash and Erie Canal, an 1850s pioneer village, and the towpath where three mules pulled boats at six miles an hour."
+description: "Delphi, Indiana keeps a working stretch of the 468-mile Wabash and Erie Canal, an 1850s pioneer village, and the towpath where three mules pulled boats at five or six miles an hour."
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 Three mules once pulled boats past Delphi at five or six miles an hour, on a canal that ran 468 miles from Toledo to Evansville. The park keeps a watered stretch of it, the towpath beside it, and an 1850s village where craftsmen work through canal season, mid-May to mid-September. The ending is the part worth standing there for: the canals carried the rails for the railroads that killed them, and the last boat through Delphi ran in 1874.