Author: Ms. R.

Some of Nornie Bero’s earliest memories involve hunting for octopuses, periwinkles, and all sorts of shellfish on the reef surrounding Mer Island. As a member of the Komet tribe, one of eight Aboriginal tribes on the small Torres Strait Island in Queensland, Australia, Bero grew up with a deep appreciation for Indigenous culinary traditions. Yet when she ventured into the hospitality industry at age 18, she seldom saw these ingredients and techniques in Australian kitchens and restaurants. All that……

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The Grand Encampment Museum offers visitors a way to explore what life was like in 20th-century Wyoming specifically related to the ranching, logging, and copper mining industries. The buildings on-site include a two-story outhouse (built to be accessible when snow covers the first story), old fire towers and tramways, business such as an ice cream parlor and bakery, log cabins, and an abandoned home from a ghost town nearby. The museum also hosts the Lora Webb Nichols archive, one……

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In the 13th century, this cemetery and its corresponding chapel were built outside the walls of the city of Nuremberg. Over the centuries, St. Johannis Church served as the burial place of important people who lived in the city, including one of the most famous German painters of the Renaissance: Albrecht Dürer. Born in 1471, Dürer was an artist and theorist of the German Renaissance whose vast body of work includes engravings, oil and watercolor paintings, and books. He……

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One hundred and twenty million years ago, there was a crystal-clear lake nestled in what is now northwestern China. Soaring trees hugged the shoreline. The air was filled with prehistoric birdsong. And there, floating along in the water, was a pigeon-sized, loon-like bird known as Brevidentavis zhangi. When the bird died, its body drifted down to the lakebed. Over thousands and thousands of years, layers of sediment covered the bird’s body. The lake dried up. The bird’s fragile, delicate……

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Visitors walking along M Street in southwest Washington, D.C. will mostly note an upscale, developing business neighborhood near Nationals Park—until they come face-to-face with a series of anachronisms from America’s past. It can be a bit confusing to find a 19th-century rail trolley at a busy intersection or share sidewalk seating with an eight-foot red channel marker, until one realizes the perimeter of the U.S. Department of Transportation is an outdoor museum of North American transportation. The Transportation Walk……

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