{"id":11731,"date":"2024-01-10T15:56:16","date_gmt":"2024-01-10T15:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/volleyballvnl.com\/?p=11731"},"modified":"2024-01-10T15:56:16","modified_gmt":"2024-01-10T15:56:16","slug":"felicity-a-museum-on-the-centre-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/volleyballvnl.com\/?p=11731","title":{"rendered":"Felicity: A museum on the centre of the world"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In the heart of California\u2019s Sonora Desert lies the unique town of Felicity, based by the ninety four yr previous visionary, Jacques Andre Istel. This enigmatic location is house to an formidable venture: a museum of human history that continues to expand, aiming to embody the entirety of documented humanity. What began in 1986 with two small homes has grown to cowl 2,600 acres (1,052 hectares) and stands as a testament to Istel\u2019s dedication and imaginative and prescient.<br\/>Visitors to Felicity cross through the symmetrical homes and encounter the primary architectural wonder, a pyramid standing at what Istel claims are the \u2018centre of the world.\u2019 Beyond this, the museum options 723 purple granite panels that trace the journey of humanity via various branches of historical past, science, and tradition. These panels chronicle significant occasions, individuals, and developments, attracting guests between October and April every year.<br\/>Jacques Andre Istel\u2019s life journey took him from Paris to the United States as the Nazis prepared to enter the city. After earning a level in economics, he initially labored in his family\u2019s banking enterprise on Wall Street. However, Istel quickly discovered himself making an unconventional profession change into skilled skydiving.  <a href=\"http:\/\/moviezoneonline.com\">Now<\/a>  came when the company he co-founded took off, popularizing recreational skydiving in the United States and offering Istel with the funds to construct Felicity..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the heart of California\u2019s Sonora Desert lies the unique town of Felicity, based by the ninety four yr previous visionary, Jacques Andre Istel. This enigmatic location is house to an formidable venture: a museum of human history that continues to expand, aiming to embody the entirety of documented humanity. What began in 1986 with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/volleyballvnl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/volleyballvnl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/volleyballvnl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/volleyballvnl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/volleyballvnl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/volleyballvnl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11732,"href":"https:\/\/volleyballvnl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11731\/revisions\/11732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/volleyballvnl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/volleyballvnl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/volleyballvnl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}