“I rode my favorite camel Asfar, a sweet-natured animal, into the Libyan oasis town of Murzuq.” This line, from Justin Marozzi’s “Captives and Companions: A History of Slavery and the Slave Trade in ...

If there’s anything that defines music in the 21st century, it’s constant change. We live in an era when your next favorite song could come from anywhere — all over the stylistic map, all over the ...

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“Amazing Grace” as it appears in Ginny Hawker’s family heirloom songbook, Lloyd’s Primitive Baptist Hymns. You can see stains in the margins, left by the tobacco-covered hands of her aunt Annie Maud ...

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Scientists believe they have solved the centuries-old mystery behind will-o’-the-wisps—the “ghostly” blue flames sometimes seen at night over marshes, wetlands and even cemeteries. Also known as ignis ...

Watch multiple spontaneous discharge events, known as “microlightning,” occur between adjacent methane–air microbubbles under high–density bubbling conditions. Police call forest fly-tip 'one of the ...

From left: Matt Bomer,, Nathan Lane and Nathan Lee Graham in 'Mid-Century Modern' Chris Haston /Hulu/ Courtesy Everett Collection There will be no second season of Hulu‘s multi-camera comedy series ...

Fifty coins spanning the 17th to 19th centuries arrive tarnished, corroded, and forgotten. Through careful restoration and preservation, each one regains its hidden details—revealing the artistry, ...

Cathlyn Melo is an experienced anime writer from the Philippines with a Master in Business Administration. She was once a hospital employee before deciding to pursue her passion for anime and manga ...

Every year, in the middle of summer, hundreds of Hong Kong construction workers and engineers walk up some 200 steps to Ching Lin Terrace in the seaside neighborhood of Kennedy Town. There, in one of ...