World’s Fairs were created to launch futuristic technology and products, but ended up selling ideas and experiences. 174 ...

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As we welcome the Tamil New Year, Visuvaavasu Varusham, on April 14, let us prepare our kolams and sakkarai pongal with the ...

Since the beginning of the 19th century, the United States has suffered ... like it was with Jackson in the 1830s—then no central bank will be capable of sustaining the collapse of liquidity ...

For generations, students, leaders, and media audiences around the globe have gazed at maps that lie—maps that diminish ...

A recent study by Dr. Ignacio Montero-Ruiz and his colleagues examined the provenance of ancient copper artifacts discovered on the Island of Ibo off Mozambique's coast. The study, published in Azania ...

To celebrate the 30th edition of the L.A. Times Festival of Books, we asked authors, editors, critics and scholars to select the 30 best fiction books since the festival was inaugurated.

This week, the puppet animals started their journey in Kinshasa, the capital of the DRC in central Africa. The story goes that the animals will be forced out of their natural habitats due to global ...

Puppeteers move cardboard animals through DRC's capital Kinshasa's botanical gardens Thursday, April 10, 2025, the first steps of "The Herds", a moving theatre performance that will travel from ...