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@@ -10,4 +10,4 @@ tags: [accessible-travel, farm-stay, mexico]
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.
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.
@@ -10,4 +10,4 @@ tags: [museum, germany, history]
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.
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.
@@ -11,4 +11,4 @@ tags: [ebooks, text-to-speech, offline]
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.
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.
@@ -12,4 +12,4 @@ description: "Curator John French's earnest online (and real, in East Lansing) m
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.
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.
@@ -10,4 +10,4 @@ tags: [literature, trivia, browser-game]
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.
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.