“I came here to get a PhD in American literature, and here I am, with pictures of American writers on the wall—a chess vendor.”
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“I came here to get a PhD in American literature, and here I am, with pictures of American writers on the wall—a chess vendor.”
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Jet-age glamour was more than just aesthetic: its promise of motionless movement reshaped perception of time and space
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Three Texas authors expose the myth that the 1836 battle at a San Antonio mission was about freedom. It was about slavery
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The festival of the snake-catchers involves a procession carrying the statue of St. Dominic, draped with living snakes in Italy.
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Online communities are not just used for propaganda but are valuable fundraising tools and crucial to recruitment, says politics lecturer Weeda Mehran
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Dozens of traditional cultures use a whistled form of their native language for long-distance communication. You could, too.
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The first ancient human DNA from the Indonesian island of Sulawesi — and the wider Wallacea islands group — sheds light on the early human history of the region.
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The US may not be completely ending its military adventure in Afghanistan, but Joe Biden’s decision to pull out troops is a victory for democracy over national security authoritarianism.
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‘I work in the woods and I don’t socialize,’ says one Alaskan whose grandfather died fishing at sea and whose uncle was mauled by a bear
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Higher than average rainfall and growth of the bees’ two favourite flowers could account for the larger than usual colony
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