A Look at the Streets of Paris From the 1860s
Beginning in the mid-1850s, at the orders of Napoleon III, Paris experienced a grand transformation - old, narrow streets made way for wi...
The Myriad Year Clock - A Complicated Timepiece Made in Japan
About a decade after the first Western mechanical clock was invented, Japanese inventor Hisashige Tanaka invented a sophisticated time coo...
Ancient Bronze-Age Prosthetic Hand Discovered In Switzerland
The notion of a cyborg has been alive in well in human history for millennia, or at least the discovery of a nearly-lifesized bronze cast ...
The Amazing Rice Paddy Art of Japan
Since 1993, the farmers of the Japanese village of Inakadate has been creating art on rice paddy fields. By intermixing purple and yellow-...
King Island: Alaska’s Inuit Ghost Village on Stilts
For thousands of years, a community of Inupiat people lived, survived and thrived in one of the harshest environments in the world - King ...
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