In the sun-drenched High Atlas Mountains of central Morocco, a collective of women — some accompanied by their young children — gather to weave. Together they prepare wool yarn on a loom, then sit in close quarters talking, singing, laughing, and bringing a blanket to life, a process that will take weeks. They’re craftspeople preserving […]
Every culture has its own unique array of ideologies, and learning about those outside our own can help us form a more vivid and nuanced worldview. It’s similar to the idea that expanding our vocabulary to include words from other languages can translate into richer and more diverse emotional experiences. In Japan — where Shintoism, Zen
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Why buy just a house when you can get an entire village, too? A converted farmhouse in south-central England is being sold for about $2.1 million, and it comes with a quirky feature in the front yard: an elaborate model village made of stone.
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Happy 80th birthday to one of the world’s busiest international airports: London’s Heathrow. The hub, which saw 49 million international seats and 84.5 million total passengers in 2025, welcomed its first travelers on March 25, 1946 — and to celebrate its Wednesday anniversary, the airport looked back on its most iconic moments over the decades.
There’s no best tearjerker category at the Academy Awards, but this year’s winner would be a no-brainer if there were: Hamnet. Chloé Zhao’s adaptation of the novel by Maggie O’Farrell contends that the death of William Shakespeare’s son Hamnet inspired Hamlet, the Bard’s magnum opus (in addition to the play premiering just a few years
The key to happiness may be rather nuanced, but living in the happiest city in America can’t hurt … and Fremont, California, earned that title (again) this year. Earlier this week, WalletHub published its annual happiest city rankings based on 29 key indicators of happiness, including depression rates, income growth, and average daily leisure time.
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2026 is the year of the FIFA World Cup, the first crewed moon mission in half a century, and many much-anticipated movie sequels, but we’re adding another entry to the list: license plates getting a glow-up. The trove of specialized plates debuting this year — many of which are already available for purchase — includes
The year is 1986, and Samantha Parkington, Kirsten Larson, and Molly McIntire have just begun capturing the hearts of kids around the country. Each character has her own backstory, helping bring the dolls to life and offering young fans a glimpse into a specific slice of American history. Fast forward to this year, and just
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Just months before the end of World War I, an American infantry soldier named Harold Alfred Stivers pressed a symbolic surprise into a silk postcard for his fiancée: a poppy picked from Belgium’s Flanders Fields. This week, more than a century later, the still-intact flower went under the hammer in England as part of a medals, militaria, and firearms auction. The poppy didn’t sell, but its story is still worth telling.
If you’ve been noodling over a trip Down Under, you may want to add Western Sydney to your itinerary. For the first time in over a century, a new major city is coming to the area — and it promises to be a hot spot of diversity and climate resilience. Called Bradfield City, the development
