Some moments teach us that compassion leaves a mark. In the UK project Kindness by Post, people exchanged goodwill cards with ...

Known as the Mount Everest of shipwrecks, the Andrea Doria still tempts divers with treasures as its collapsing hull ...

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Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials books tell of a special instrument that enables its bearer to see the truth. The Oxford author's inspirations for the compass-like gadget, known as an alethiometer, ...

In 1929, while renovating the Topkapi Palace in Istanbul, a theologian discovered a fragment of gazelle skin that would rewrite the history of cartography. This was the Piri Reis map, a world chart ...

Frederick Cook and Robert Peary both claimed they discovered the North Pole. AGIP / Rue des Archives / The Granger Collection, New York On September 7, 1909, readers of the New York Times awakened to ...

Having finished writing these thirty stories, I am now once again resting my body deep in that familiar captain's seat. Beyond the thick glass of the bridge, the sea stretches out—always the same, yet ...

After conquering e-commerce, the serial entrepreneur set out to fix food delivery. He created a new kind of restaurant in the process. By Joe Guszkowski on Sep. 07, 2023 The words above the door at ...

There’s a room in Roanoke, Virginia where the lights never stop blinking, the bells never stop ringing, and nobody is asking ...

If you’ve ever stood at a cash register watching the total climb higher and higher while your soul quietly left your body, the Union Gospel Mission Thrift Store in Salem, Oregon is about to become ...

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