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Cultural Identity
Those white, marble statues you see in museums all over the world were originally painted with bright colors.
The richness and variety of America’s food landscape, in a buffet of maps.
Research suggests there's truth to regional stereotypes in the U.S. — with some caveats.
For linguists, the uniqueness of the Basque language represents an unsolved mystery. For its native speakers, long oppressed, it is a source of pride.
Piano Sonata No. 23 offers a window into the way culture became an instrument of Soviet state policy.
One from New Guinea rose to the top in a recent study.
It’s a lot easier to point out things that are gezellig (adjective) than it is to define gezelligheid (noun) itself.
Fortune cookies emerged from one of America’s darkest moments.
His plan to replace it with homegrown rice did not go well.
When Mongol traders came knocking, Sultan Muhammad II shaved off their beards. Three years later, his whole empire was annihilated.
In order to figure out how English might evolve in the future, we have to look at how it has changed in the near and distant past.
"Not my circus, not my monkeys."
Queen Calafia seems like she could have sprung from the pages of a modern fantasy novel.
For Nietzsche, a great work of art can either veil the horror of reality or – better yet – help us face it.
The strange bronze artifact perplexed scholars for more than a century, including how it traveled so far from home.
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Expert Michael Spitzer explains how culture can “tune” your musical taste.
In the West, discussions of 20th-century painting are dominated by Warhol and Picasso, but trendsetting artists are found everywhere.
If you get married in South Africa, don't be surprised if someone shows up to the ceremony dragging along a smelly goat.
Most popular songs are about love and heartache. But some great songs — albeit underrated and perhaps a bit weird — are about the cities we love.
If tourism is the lifeblood of the Peruvian economy, then Machu Picchu is the heart pumping that blood — in sickness and in health.
When maps meet stamps, you get a love child called "cartophilately."
If comedies do get made today, they usually bypass the big screen and go straight to streaming platforms.
Without Étienne-Joseph-Théophile Thoré, the genius of the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer would have been lost to time.
For the first time in nearly 1500 years, fewer than half the people in England and Wales consider themselves Christian.
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Collective illusions — false assumptions about society that many people share — have existed for thousands of years in many different ways. Today, because of social media and modern technology, […]
These ten maps provide a fascinating insight into the impact that soccer (sorry, football) has had worldwide.
You want your baby's name to be unique, but so does everyone else.
For centuries, the only way to travel between the Old and New World was through ships like the RMS Lusitania. Experiences varied wildly depending on your income.
Nothing meaningful is done quickly.