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The Mona Lisa is the most famous painting on the planet by a distance that is hard to overstate. It draws millions of visitors to the Louvre annually, and…
Antonio Stradivari worked in Cremona in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, and the instruments he made have become the most valuable objects in music. Individual examples sell for…
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Chichén Itzá sits in the northern Yucatán Peninsula, and at its centre stands El Castillo, formally the Temple of Kukulkán. It is roughly 30 metres tall, nine stepped terraces…
The Icelandic landscape is one of the most photographed on Earth: black sand, green moss, waterfalls, glaciers, and a horizon that runs uninterrupted for miles. Part of what makes it…
Almost nobody who drinks coffee daily has seen the plant it comes from, and the vocabulary actively misleads.
A coffee bean is not a bean. It is a seed, and…
The chocolate bar is a nineteenth-century European invention and a very late entry in a long history. For most of that history chocolate was a beverage, and in much of…