The Ruins of Sutro Baths

Apr 15, 2022

Within the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, just north of Ocean Beach, in San Francisco, you can still find the ruins of what was once ...

In The Gambia, Votes Are Cast With Marbles

Apr 15, 2022

Along the smiling coast of Africa, nature abounds and all sorts of sights, smells and sounds reveal the beauty of harmonious living. One of ...

The Ripple Rock Explosion

Apr 13, 2022

Between Vancouver Island and the Discovery Islands in British Columbia, lies a narrow body of water called Seymour Narrows, which is part of...

The Oldest Name in The World

Apr 12, 2022

Humans have been calling each other by names probably for hundreds of thousands of years ever since the first human beings evolved from Homo...

Antarctic Oases

Apr 11, 2022

Antarctica is one of the most inhospitable places in this earth, with all-year-round freezing temperatures, violent katabatic winds and ice ...

The Abandoned Village of Kuldhara

Apr 11, 2022

Some 30 kilometres from Jaisalmer, Rajasthan, a dusty track meanders towards the abandoned town of Kuldhara. Deserted land of scanty vegetat...

How The Soviet Union Tried to Abolish Weekends

Apr 8, 2022

About a hundred years ago in August 1929, the Soviet Union moved to alter the most fundamental tool of daily functioning: the calendar. An i...

The Mysterious Phaistos Disc

Apr 7, 2022

The Phaistos Disc is an enigmatic disk of fired clay discovered in the Minoan palace of Phaistos on the Greek island of Crete, possibly dati...

Razia Sultan: Delhi’s First And Only Female Emperor

Apr 7, 2022

Tales of female courage and prudence, power and fortitude run long in the pages of Mughal history. Women who were daughters, who were begums...

The Corpse of Elmer McCurdy

Apr 6, 2022

What happens to our bodies when we die? Some are buried with grandeur in oakwood caskets, some cremated on holy pyres of amber flames. But t...