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Olga Pinto To our left was a huge, flat area, covered in olive trees and scrub bushes. Where it ended, the earth transformed sharply into forested mountains.

Vic Ecklund walks among the remains of the old field house at Camp Hale, during a memorial service for the 10th Mountain...
16/12/2022

Vic Ecklund walks among the remains of the old field house at Camp Hale, during a memorial service for the 10th Mountain Division on August 6, 2007. Ecklund’s father served with the regiment from 1942 to 1945.

A series of satellite images show the ferocity of the Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai eruption. The blast sent out a shockwave...
28/11/2022

A series of satellite images show the ferocity of the Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai eruption. The blast sent out a shockwave that can be seen in the rippling clouds surrounding the growing plume.

Set high on the Bolivian Altiplano, Torotoro’s most magnetic draw are some 3,500 dinosaur footprints belonging to biped ...
08/11/2022

Set high on the Bolivian Altiplano, Torotoro’s most magnetic draw are some 3,500 dinosaur footprints belonging to biped and quadruped dinosaurs dating from the Cretaceous period.

Pallozas are built from just a handful of materials: stone, wood and rye straw. However, despite their simplicity, they ...
03/11/2022

Pallozas are built from just a handful of materials: stone, wood and rye straw. However, despite their simplicity, they are perfectly adapted to the mountain region's cold, windy conditions. For example, their round shape – with few windows or openings – lessens the impact of harsh mountain winds. And thick stone walls – made with granite, limestone or slate, depending on which was available in the area ­– insulate from the cold and conserve interior heat. Inside, the palloza's fireplace and its indoor stable (for the family's cattle) are essential for maintaining a constant temperature.

On any night in Auckland, you can have your pick of world cuisine, whether you're hankering for hand-pulled biang biang ...
12/10/2022

On any night in Auckland, you can have your pick of world cuisine, whether you're hankering for hand-pulled biang biang noodles swathed in chilli oil, or a Margherita pizza cooked by someone holding official Associazione Verace Pizza Napoletana certification.

While sailing along Africa’s western coast, famed Portuguese explorer Diogo Cão briefly stopped at the Skeleton Coast in...
10/10/2022

While sailing along Africa’s western coast, famed Portuguese explorer Diogo Cão briefly stopped at the Skeleton Coast in 1486. After Cão and his men erected a cross inscribed with the Portuguese coat of arms, the Namib’s daunting sand dunes and harsh climate quickly led them to turn back to the sea – but not before famously calling the area "The Gates of Hell".

Just 20km south of Pisa, Livorno checks all the boxes of the typical European port city: it's chaotic and lively; it's m...
06/10/2022

Just 20km south of Pisa, Livorno checks all the boxes of the typical European port city: it's chaotic and lively; it's multicultural; and it's strongly linked to the sea, both culturally and gastronomically. Plus, it's in the middle of Tuscany, which should automatically make it popular.

It gives the show an immediacy, Robert King explains – as if you're living in the same world as these characters, and mi...
03/10/2022

It gives the show an immediacy, Robert King explains – as if you're living in the same world as these characters, and might bump into one of them on the street. "I think that is fun. And often TV tries to avoid that. People think, well, I'm writing something for the centuries, so let's not make it about this very moment. But when you make it about that very moment, it makes it have more resonance. I'm a little worried everybody writes to such a generic quality of reality that you're not creating resonance in the same way you could."

The Morning Glory signifies power of a very different kind for the local Gangalidda indigenous people. To the Gangalidda...
30/09/2022

The Morning Glory signifies power of a very different kind for the local Gangalidda indigenous people. To the Gangalidda, Walalu, the Rainbow Serpent, creates each Morning Glory – or kangólgi, as they call it. According to tradition, the Gangalidda ancestors ride along on the cloud to watch over their people and their land. For the modern Gangalidda, this is a good omen of the highest order.

Despite its plentiful supply, molokhia wasn't always available to the masses. According to folklore, the Caliph of Cairo...
29/09/2022

Despite its plentiful supply, molokhia wasn't always available to the masses. According to folklore, the Caliph of Cairo (one of Egypt's rulers from the 10th Century Fatimid dynasty) outlawed consumption of the viscous soup because of its alleged aphrodisiac effect on women.

During the summer of 1883, a caldera in the Sunda Strait, located between the islands of Java and Sumatra, became increa...
28/09/2022

During the summer of 1883, a caldera in the Sunda Strait, located between the islands of Java and Sumatra, became increasingly turbulent, releasing huge plumes of ash and steam into the sky. Then, on 26 August, an underwater volcano ejected approximately 25 km3 (six cubic miles) of debris, hurtling pumice ash and boiling lava flows across nearby settlements. The eruption killed tens of thousands of people. Krakatoa remains one of the most deadly underwater eruptions in history.

But that wasn't always the case. Historians believe the Alhambra was commissioned as a fortress in the 9th Century by a ...
27/09/2022

But that wasn't always the case. Historians believe the Alhambra was commissioned as a fortress in the 9th Century by a man named Sawwar ben Hamdun, during the wars between Muslims and Christians who converted to Islam. However, it wasn't until the 13th-Century arrival of Muhammad I, the first king of the Nasrid dynasty – which would rule from 1230 until the Spanish Catholic conquest of 1492 – that engineers overcame the challenge of the Alhambra's elevated location on 840m-high Sabika Hill and transformed it into a habitable, 26-acre palatine city with access to fresh running water.

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