Author: Ms. R.

In 1976, the 19 tribes that make up New Mexico’s Pueblo population gathered to open Albuquerque’s Indian Pueblo Cultural Center on a patch of Native American land in the center of the city. This serene complex of stucco buildings is an important arena for the preservation of Native American crafts, music, and ceremonies. It’s also a place where all-too-rare pre-Columbian cuisine is sustained and celebrated, on the menu at Pueblo Indian Kitchen. The year 1492—when Christopher Columbus arrived in the……

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Not many people get to attend the yearly Nobel banquets, as that’s reserved for geniuses, humanitarians, and Swedish nobility. But if your invitation got lost in the mail, never fear. With a chunk of change, you, too, can feast like a Nobel prizewinner in the cellars of Stockholm’s City Hall. The Stadshuskällaren, or the City Hall Cellars, is unique in more than just its location. City Hall is the venue for the Nobel banquet, and its restaurant offers the……

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This summer, Guinness World Records enshrined a monster cherry as the heaviest ever recorded. A Carmen cherry, harvested by brothers Giuseppe and Alberto Rosso, clocked in at 33 grams, or 1.16 ounces, with a circumference of around 5 inches. This might still seem minuscule, but the winning fruit was as large as an apricot. According to the brothers, this isn’t the first time they’ve grown some of the world’s largest cherries. At their farm, Cascina Canape, in the Piedmont……

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Inside this historical house on a hilltop in Charlottesville, Virginia, visitors are transported to Australia and engulfed by Indigenous culture in the form of artwork that surprises, challenges, and inspires.   The Kluge-Ruhe is the only museum outside of Australia dedicated to works of art created by Indigenous artists from across Australia. While the culture is known as the oldest continuous culture in the world, the artwork inside is fresh and contemporary. They often address current issues facing Indigenous cultures……

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Just down the road from Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, a row of boarded-up Craftsman-style bungalows marches down to a shallow green ravine, flanked by large, empty dormitory buildings. Along narrow walking paths, memorial plaques pay tribute to long-forgotten Angelenos who spent years of their lives at this place. The bowl-like ravine holds one of the best-preserved sanatoriums west of the Mississippi. Founded in 1902 as a haven for people with tuberculosis (TB), Barlow Sanatorium flirted with irrelevance by……

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Giant’s kettles are formed when rocks swirl in currents under a glacier against a bedrock surface. Over time, this erodes the surface and carves a hole in the rock, ultimately forming the deep cavities known as giant’s kettles. This is what happened in Sweden and northern Europe during the last ice age that ended about 10,000 B.C. The massive ice that once covered Sweden and the rest of Scandinavia (three to four kilometers thick) has affected the geology of……

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John W. Bowser was born in present-day Aurora, Ontario in 1892 and in the coming years worked on many construction jobs in and around Toronto, most notably the Royal Ontario Museum and the Bank of Toronto building. Although those were minor roles, it was overall a good start to his career. Sometime around 1930, he headed to New York to start work as the project construction superintendent for the famous Empire State Building, an important title. After completing the……

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This striking metal sculpture, created by American sculptor Jonathan Borofsky in 1999 is an iconic sight for those who pass by the banks of the Spree River. Situated in the middle of the river and at a height of almost 100 feet (30 meters), this work of art symbolizes the point where the three Berlin neighborhoods Kreuzberg, Friedrichshain, and Treptow meet. For a city that was previously divided into East and West by the Spree River, this aluminum sculpture……

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