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You could send your potential paramour a perfume bottle, a cigar cutter, travel plans — or maybe some cocaine.
These clocks burn powdered incense along a pre-measured paths, each representing a different amount of time.
Your whole body is part of the instrument.
The carnival spirit was in full swing when the priests got wasted and made indecent gestures while dressed like pimps.
Get ready for the most peculiar road trip that will help you understand the vastness and emptiness of the solar system — and Sweden.
Perhaps there was something theatrically satisfying about a learned man waving around a flask of pee, looking at it from all angles, sniffing it, and making bold proclamations.
It's like combining Google Translate with a time machine.
Due to export controls from China, the Europeans had to invent their own forms of porcelain. One type involves dead cows.
We should acknowledge that there are faith-based myths running deep in science's canon.
Is the vast "Khan Khentii Strictly Protected Area" the final resting place of Genghis Khan?
These core teachings make an ideal starting point for exploring Buddhist philosophy.
A photographer captured Bern’s eclectic and charming feline structures.
On the menu: stews, cheese, and fermented drinks.
For linguists, the uniqueness of the Basque language represents an unsolved mystery. For its native speakers, long oppressed, it is a source of pride.
Diogenes engaged in shocking behavior to demonstrate the contradictions, small-mindedness, and sheer absurdity of prevailing social conventions.
Before Constantine received his history-defining vision, a pagan Sun god paved the way for Jesus Christ’s triumphal entry into the Eternal City.
A philosophy of birth can offset the prevailing narrative around extinction and mortality.
"Groupthink" gets a bad rap. In reality, we need groups to focus our thinking and to build on the ideas of others.
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Germans are masters of building cars, cooking brats — and sitting while peeing.
But make sure you bring the fossegrim the proper offering—or else.
The Source Family, a radical 1970s utopian commune, still impacts what we eat today.
The chances that a newborn survives childhood have increased from 50% to 96% globally.
Stone buildings in northern India reveal secrets of old structures that could save lives.
Left-handed humans were likelier to get stabbed in the heart.
And her clothing tells an important story, says archeologist Rita Wright.
It’s a lot easier to point out things that are gezellig (adjective) than it is to define gezelligheid (noun) itself.
Zombies aren't a modern-day obsession. Throughout history, fear of the undead led to bizarre burial rituals all over the world.
Fortune cookies emerged from one of America’s darkest moments.