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Deep in the Brazilian Amazon, on the banks of a tributary of the great river, there stands a ghost town unlike any other. Its ruins include an American-style water…
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Imagine waking up on a June morning to find snow blanketing the ground, then watching killing frosts destroy your crops through what should have been the warmest weeks of…
How much paid vacation you get depends enormously on which country you happen to work in. Across most of the world, governments legally require employers to provide a minimum number…
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Just across the Mississippi River from modern St. Louis, in what is now southern Illinois, lie the remains of one of the most remarkable and least appreciated places in…
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It is one of the most famous cautionary tales in the history of money: the great Dutch "tulip mania" of the 1630s, when the Netherlands supposedly went collectively insane…
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Imagine renovating your house — knocking down a wall in your basement to make a little more room — and finding, behind it, a hidden passage leading down into…