In the 17th through 19th centuries, celestial atlases brought the night sky within reach. The more colorful offerings weren't ideal for scholarship, but as far as the public was concerned, they were spectacular to look at—especially when they depicted stars that the average person could spot.
Time is running out to sign up for our November trip! Visit towering forts and palaces, wander centuries-old ruins, and see Agra aglow with lamplight for Diwali on this immersive journey through Northern India.
Nicaraguan Sign Language is the only language spontaneously created, without the influence of other languages, to have been recorded from its birth. And though it came out of a period of civil strife, it was not political actors but deaf children who created NSL.
New Mexico State University's Chile Pepper Institute is the only research institution in the world solely dedicated to chiles. Faculty members develop new varieties here in the tradition of their predecessor Fabian Garcia, who some consider the father of Mexican-American food.
Built to test magnetically levitated elevators, this structure in Rottweil, Germany, also boasts the country's highest visitor platform.
One of the most important artifacts at the Concord Museum in Massachusetts is the lantern Paul Revere hung in the belfry of Boston's Old North Church, which signaled to American troops that the British were coming.
These traditional Berber structures, made famous by the Star Wars franchise, were largely unknown to the outside world until the 1960s, when severe flooding brought the houses to the attention of the Tunisian government.
An annual competition tasks chefs with making tasty dishes featuring animals often found as victims of traffic accidents.
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