mapping The 193 Deadliest Crowd Tragedies Ever Recorded August 21, 2023 / September 20, 2024 by Adam DuVander About half of people would rather stay inside alone than attend a jam-packed event. While most of these people don’t fear death, it’s one of the risks when you are with hundreds or thousands of others. We’ve morbidly gathered more than 193 crowd collapses and crushes that have occurred throughout the centuries. More often than […] Read more »
mapping U.S. Festival Types on a Map July 31, 2023 / September 20, 2024 by Adam DuVander We love our obscure celebrations in the United States. Often, these are local events of much note, and we’ve gathered a bunch of them for you on a map. Yet the 182 festivals that take place each year across the U.S. aren’t very easily defined. Not to stop us from trying to put them into […] Read more »
mapping A Map of the Highest-Attended Concerts July 24, 2023 / September 20, 2024 by Adam DuVander Flip open your Guinness Book of World Records… or just visit the site. There are world records for anything from anamorphic prints to YouTube views—including the highest-attended concerts. While a French artist started the Guinness Book entry with a 1979 concert, it has since been surpassed… though, amazingly, the same artist still ties for the […] Read more »