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Author: michelle and Dylan

  • Mustard Museum

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    Mustard Museum

    Over 5000 contemporary and “historic” mustards from around the world are moving to a new location

    For many years the highlight of Mount Horeb, Wisconsin was the famous Mustard Museum, run by a local celebrity (Barry Levenson, famous for the mustard museum, naturally) and home to a huge collection of both new and “antique” mustards from all over the world. The museum was small, but delightful, and the collection of antique mustard serving sets was particularly charming. There was also a stream of movies (like “Mustard: The Spice of Nations”) shown throughout the day on a big television in a little seating area known as the “Mustard Piece Theatre.”
    Sadly, the mustard museum is leaving Mount Horeb. Not far – just 18 miles away to Middleton – but far enough for Mount Horeb to be concerned. As for the mustard museum, they have been given 1.4 million dollars to help build up a new mustard museum in Middleton, and plans are in place to make the museum bigger, better, and more mustardy than ever before.
    The town of Mount Horeb is not without a fallback plan. Besides mustard, the town is full of carved wooden trolls and known (at least locally) as the “Troll Capital of the World.” Surely, there must be a museum in that. “People will still come,” says village administrator Larry Bierke “Mount Horeb has a resiliency that’s going to prove itself.”
    The Mustard Museum’s gift shop offers hundreds of mustard’s ranging from fruity to super hot, all of which can be sampled on request. If one is really serious about mustard, the first Saturday of August is National Mustard Day, and cause for a full-on festival at the Mustard museum – wherever it is located.

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    Category: Museums and Collections, Unique Collections
    Location: Wisconsin, US
    Edited by: michelle, Dylan

  • Chocolate Hills

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    Chocolate Hills

    Bohol’s mysterious brown hills

    Were you to fly over Bohol Island in the Phillipines during the dry season, you might notice what looks like thousands of chocolate kisses protruding from the terrain. These mysterious, conical mounds are known as the Chocolate Hills. There are approximately 1,268 individual hills, each one, on average, ranging from 100 to 160 feet, though the highest is almost 400 feet high. The hills, which are almost all symmetrical, consist of grass-covered limestone, and turn brown during the dry season.
    Despite the abundance of hills, it is unclear how they were formed. There are multiple geological explanations ranging from oceanic volcano activity to limestone weathering. A recent theory is that an ancient volcano self-destructed and chunks of it were dispersed over the region.
    Numerous legends and tales also exist to explain the Chocolate Hills. One legend is about a giant buffalo who came and wreaked havoc in the region, eating and destroying all the crops. As an act of vengeance, locals left out spoiled crops. When the buffalo ate them, got sick, and left mounds of feces in his wake, bringing new meaning to the name “Chocolate Hills.”

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    Category: Natural Wonders, Martian Landscapes, Geological Oddities
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    Edited by: michelle, Dylan