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To travel or not to travel? This is a common question many people ask. It is a pertinent inquiry, as salaried workers often do not…
To travel or not to travel? This is a common question many people ask. It is a pertinent inquiry, as salaried workers often do not…
By Nicholas Klacsanzky As a 20-year-old college student with cash to spare, going to India was a dream. I had been listening to tons of…
Despite global poverty, there is also global obesity. This demonstrates the imbalance the world is in now. Obesity is a dangerous condition, as it leads…
There must be something special about hotels that makes people’s imagination inhabit them with ghosts, poltergeists, and other supernatural beings. We can find countless stories…
There is a popular phrase used by alpinists when asked about why they have chosen to climb mountains: “Because they exist.” If you think this…
By Sam Burt, on The Search for Immortality: Tomb Treasures of Han China, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge Why did the Emperors of the Qin and Han…
Jerusalem is often referred to as the city of three religions. Throughout the thousands of years that it has existed, this city had been conquered,…
Every day, China is becoming more and more influential in terms of the global economy, politics, and authority. The times when China was an underdeveloped…
Australia is probably one of the most mysterious regions of the world—at least for people who have never been there before. A huge continent on…
When speaking of Japan, most people imagine a certain set of things: Fujisan (also known as Fujiyama), sushi, geisha, samurai, anime, shinobi (often incorrectly called…
There are places on our planet that tourists around the world have been favoring for decades. Hawaii, India, Southern Europe—these are examples of popular destinations,…
This article [Julia Margaret Cameron in Ceylon: Idylls of Freshwater] was originally published in The Public Domain Review [https://publicdomainreview.org/2014/07/09/julia-margaret-cameron-in-ceylon-idylls-of-freshwater-vs-idylls-of-rathoongodde/] under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0.…
How many times, when finding yourself in a difficult situation, you heard something like, “You just need to go somewhere, change your environment, and meet…
By Nevin Gussack A number of leftist senators and congressmen developed positions and attitudes that were favorable towards communist dictatorships. In some cases, such elected…
This article [Elizabeth Bisland’s Race Around the World] was originally published in The Public Domain Review [Elizabeth Bisland’s Race Around the World] under a Creative…
It is difficult to form a correct idea of a desert without having seen one. It is a vast plain of sands and stones, interspersed…
Four hundred years ago, on April 23, 1616, Miguel de Cervantes died. In the prologue to his posthumously-published The Trials of Persiles and Sigismunda, he…
Early the other morning, I started out, not with the pleasure-seekers, but with those who toil the day long that they may live. Everybody was…
People often talk about cultural differences between western and eastern countries. Indeed, the way of thinking, traditions, religious customs, living conditions, and so on in…
Theodore de Bry, born in the Prince-Bishopric of Liege in 1528, lived and worked in Strasbourg, Antwerp, and London before he ultimately settled in Frankfurt,…
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