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@@ -10,4 +10,4 @@ tags: [accessible-travel, farm-stay, mexico]
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description: "An apple orchard farm stay in Puebla's Sierra Norte built for wheelchair users from the ground up — ramps to the orchard, the horses, and beyond."
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At this apple orchard in Puebla's misty Sierra Norte, accessibility isn't an afterthought — a retrofitted school bus called the Berry Bus carries wheelchair users into the orchard on a wide ramp, and a second ramp extends straight onto a horse's back so wheelchair users can ride too. Guests pick blueberries from a flat grassy patch reserved for wheelchairs and sleep in accessible rooms at the on-site Frutos del Bosque hotel. Owner Federico Núñez Perea's daughter Stephanie, who uses a wheelchair, runs it all as the farm's Inclusion Director.
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At this apple orchard in Puebla's misty Sierra Norte, accessibility isn't an afterthought — a retrofitted school bus called the Berry Bus carries wheelchair users into the orchard on a wide ramp, and a second ramp extends straight onto a horse's back so they can ride too. Guests pick blueberries from a flat grassy patch reserved for wheelchairs and sleep in accessible rooms at the on-site Frutos del Bosque hotel. Owner Federico Núñez Perea's daughter Stephanie, who uses a wheelchair, runs it all as the farm's Inclusion Director.
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description: "A modest 19th-century house in Heidelberg where a saddler's son was born and grew up to become the Weimar Republic's first democratically elected president — free admission, guided tours available."
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This modest 19th-century house in Heidelberg's old town is where Friedrich Ebert was born in 1871, the son of a saddler who would become the Weimar Republic's first democratically elected president. Original rooms, personal objects, and photographs trace how a working-class upbringing led to shaping modern German democracy, alongside a modern exhibition on the era's turbulence. Admission is free, with guided tours and audio guides available.
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This modest 19th-century house in Heidelberg's old town is where Friedrich Ebert was born in 1871, the son of a saddler who would become the Weimar Republic's first democratically elected president. Original rooms, personal objects, and photographs trace how a working-class upbringing shaped modern German democracy, alongside an exhibition on the era's turbulence. Admission is free, with guided tours and audio guides available.
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@@ -11,4 +11,4 @@ tags: [ebooks, text-to-speech, offline]
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description: "An iOS EPUB reader with on-device neural text-to-speech and a free built-in library of public-domain classics — everything narrated locally, no cloud round-trip required."
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Heard reads your EPUBs aloud using on-device neural narration, so nothing gets streamed to a server and the voice keeps going without a connection. It ships with a free library of public-domain classics — Dickens, Twain, Homer — ready to open and listen to immediately, alongside support for your own files. The narration engine runs locally on the phone, not in the cloud.
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Heard reads your EPUBs aloud using on-device neural narration, so nothing gets streamed to a server and the voice keeps going without a connection. It ships with a free library of public-domain classics — Dickens, Twain, Homer — ready to open and listen to immediately, alongside support for your own files.
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promotedTo: moist-towelette-online-museum
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John French has spent decades collecting moist towelettes — from Lufthansa, KFC, British Airways, and a set of Star Trek tie-ins captioned "Live long and prosper!" — and cataloguing them with the earnestness of a real institution, because it is one: the museum has a physical home in Room 100 of the Abrams Planetarium at Michigan State University, open Tuesday through Friday. The site still lists a DIY towelette recipe (witch hazel, glycerine, paper towels) for anyone who runs out.
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John French has spent decades collecting moist towelettes — from Lufthansa, KFC, British Airways, and a set of Star Trek tie-ins captioned "Live long and prosper!" — and cataloguing them with the earnestness of a real institution. It is one: the museum has a physical home in Room 100 of the Abrams Planetarium at Michigan State University, open Tuesday through Friday. The site still lists a DIY towelette recipe (witch hazel, glycerine, paper towels) for anyone who runs out.
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description: "A browser guessing game built entirely from famous first sentences — from 'In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit' to Kafka's 'Someone must have slandered Josef K.' — name the book from one line."
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Verba Prima strips a famous novel down to a single sentence — its opening line — and asks you to name the book. The lines range from instantly recognizable ("In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit") to properly obscure, testing how much a great first sentence actually tells you before the rest of the book shows up. Round by round, it's a reminder of how much work a great opening line does.
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Verba Prima strips a famous novel down to a single sentence — its opening line — and asks you to name the book. The lines range from instantly recognizable ("In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit") to properly obscure, testing how much a great first sentence actually tells you before the rest of the book shows up.
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