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Legally smoking joints in city centers will require alertness and a keen sense of orientation — two things stoners are not known for.
His crime was so great, he was not only sentenced to death but his name was to be erased from memory.
Dive into China's profound intellectual legacy through five seminal texts that have shaped millennia of thought.
In Georgia, it's becoming less common to pronounce words like "prize" as "prahz."
"Conceptual isolation" offers an agreeable solution.
A history of othering, experimentation, and mystery.
Sweet, bitter, salty, sour. These are the four basic tastes we were taught in grade school. But there is a fifth: umami. And it's everywhere.
The mountain can generate lenticular clouds, which may contribute to its supernatural reputation.
Legend holds that newly elected popes in the Middle Ages had to present their genitals for inspection to confirm that they were male.
To this day, one cult believes that Lemuria was real, and that its people left us the sacred wisdom to revive their advanced civilization.
The design was as intricate as that of modern-day, factory-fabricated denim jeans, and just as durable. The ancients had fashion.
Pure cinema is about removing redundancy so that even the smallest detail serves a purpose in relation to the bigger picture.
The region of Catalonia has been at odds with greater Spain for over 300 years. The prospect of autonomy remains a distant and fading dream.
Six authors, six monumental legacies, and a unique thread connecting them: a solitary novel that shines brightly.
Wherever automation rises, religiosity falls.
Be more like Goldilocks.
Nero’s reputation as one of the most malevolent emperors in Roman history might be partly slander.
Six hundred years in the history of trousers.
According to bushido, your life is of secondary importance to key virtues, like honor, loyalty, and justice.
The author of Frankenstein had an obsession with the cemetery and saw love and death as connected.
Explore how belief shapes destiny, from Oedipus Rex to modern geopolitics.
In Kannauj, perfumers have been making monsoon-infused mitti attar for centuries.
The use of the letter x as an unknown is a relatively modern convention.
The arsons were no accident, archaeological evidence suggests.
Only Caesar lived to tell the tale.
You could send your potential paramour a perfume bottle, a cigar cutter, travel plans — or maybe some cocaine.
Uncovering the ideology of "Karens" and "Kens."
Voyage into the lawless world of experimental literature.
What better explains the prevalence of heavy metal in Scandinavian countries: culture or economy?
Those white, marble statues you see in museums all over the world were originally painted with bright colors.