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Strolling with the Flâneur

Anyone can go for a walk, but the flâneur makes an art of urban strolling.

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Griots — Living History Books

Storytellers are everywhere, but West Africa’s griots are the true keepers of the culture.

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All those comets, craters, exo-planets. . . Who names them? And why is there a crater on Mercury named John Lennon?

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Petra was amazing but my guide — funny and wise — made it unforgettable.

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His stories took us on high seas of adventure. But how did Robert Louis Stevenson end up buried “under the wide and starry sky” of Samoa?

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1911: In a white supremacist world, the Universal Races Conference faced down “the problem of the color line.”

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IN 1827, when Egypt sent a giraffe to France, there was only one way to get her to Paris.

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Once you’ve seen our “blue marble” from space, you’re never the same again. Could this be the change we’ve been looking for?