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In the south-east of the continent at Budj Bim (Mount Eccles), modern science can tell us a volcanic eruption happened ...

When Dan Brown finally returned in 2025 with The Secret of Secrets—the sixth Robert Langdon adventure—the world that devoured ...

Maps have always both granted power and threatened it, depending on who controls the data, the scale and the narrative.

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There are stories whispered in the dark about spirits that offer knowledge no mortal should have. Tales that speak of beings ...

Historians are occasionally forced to revise their preconceived notions after discovering something hidden in the shadows and ...

More than five hundred years ago, Michelangelo unveiled the vault of the Sistine Chapel—one of the supreme masterpieces of ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." It began life as a suite created by a husband for his new wife. Napoleon commissioned the emerald and ...

~ The premature eating. Zohar I 36b–37a describes Adam’s sin as eating “before its time,” and says that had he waited until Shabbat, the fruit would have been permitted and the world perfected. The ...

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