When California Was Thought To Be An Island
If California were a country its economy would be the fifth largest in the world. Yet the tech boom is not the starkest way California has e...
If California were a country its economy would be the fifth largest in the world. Yet the tech boom is not the starkest way California has e...
Sitting low among the hills, just north of the city of Frejus, in southern France, not far from the French Riviera coast, are the broken rem...
Orson Fowler wanted to design the best house, but he detested the traditional boxy shapes. Too many right angles, he thought. In his mind, t...
In 1961, a professor at the University of Bucharest, made a surprising discovery in the archives of the city of Sibiu, in Romania. It was a ...
Unlike a submarine that can lurk beneath the waves, or an artillery tank that can camouflage itself among trees and the surrounding terrain,...
An overwhelming majority of plants depend upon birds and insects for seed dispersal. Plants attract pollinators by releasing aromatic compou...
In the early days of oil drilling, when tools were basic and technology was lacking, every new oil well sunk into the ground ran the risk of...
The Ruhr valley in North Rhine-Westphalia was once Germany’s industrial heartland producing coal and steel, the two very essential raw mater...
In the days before automobiles, when streets were meant for horses and their carts mostly, walking through mud and excrement was an unavoida...
Hitler’s megalomaniac plans for Germany included a monumental new railway. This railway was supposed to connect the most important cities i...