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Via Messy Nessy Chic’s regular roundup , we discover a singular multi-faith centre in Sri Lanka extending the eponymous peak (අම්බුළුවාව) o...

Coupled with the unconscionable civilian death toll and the destruction and demolition of half the buildings and essentially all vital infr...

Departing his native Tangiers and embarking on a twenty-four year journey that would ultimately take him from Timbuktu to Beijing, explorin...

We had intended to pay a visit to Rethymno (corresponding to the ancient cities of Rhithymnia and Arsinoe, chiefly known as a mint in antiqu...

Among the most popular paired saints with a cult going back to the fifth century, the Syrian Roman soldiers were, according to their...

Signalling a radical shift in policy priorities, Joe Biden for his first day and a half in office signed a tranche of executive orde...

oh yeah : this supercut of Kool Aid Man crashing through barriers is somehow soothing il cameriere : a “self-portrait” by Mannerist paint...

Though only reigning for a brief thirty-three days, dying on this day in 1978 (*1935)—touching off the first year of three popes since 1605,...

Referred to as the above with the conviction it was punishment from God alternatively for the Ottomans’ perceived inhospitality toward the E...

flotus : chainsaw sculpture of Melania Trump erected in her hometown torched on US Independence Day [screaming internally] : assorted ne...

A Syrian artist and activist, known only as Saint Hoax, debuts his latest performance piece called MonuMental —an inflatable tank with the b...

This overview of medieval European microstates (micronations can be equally idiosyncratic but with severely limited recognition) that cam...

A committed flâneur myself, I appreciated the invitation from Calvert Journal correspondent Daryl Mersom to take a wander through the diffe...

underground sundae : recreating the lost psychedelic commercial that Andy Warhol made in 1968 for a Manhattan family restaurant franchise ...

A Hong Kong based design team has constructed a coiling passageway of arches in Sharjah —one of the capital cities of the United Arab Emirat...

Revoltingly—and unclear whether the US ambassador thought of this stupid cruelty himself or it was part of some State Department hazing rit...

Though perhaps not at the levels of the paranoid power-holders of the Roman Empire (yet) nor of more recent lashings out by despots , deple...

A new collaboration by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s civil engineering faculty creates a privileged platform for witnessing th...

Though it might be safe to assume that the Aztec Empire of Mesoamerica was already doomed by the arrival of Europeans bringing Old World dis...

Via Quartz Magazine, we learn about the Chinese government’s ambition to create a Muslim theme park of sorts in order to court wealthy tour...