Most people picture the Panama Canal as a ditch: a channel cut through the isthmus, joining two oceans, with ships sailing along it. That picture is wrong in a specific…
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The Great Sphinx of Giza is one of the largest and most recognizable monuments on Earth: a limestone figure with the body of a lion and a human head,…
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The Voyager probes launched in 1977 to study the outer solar system, and they did that job extraordinarily well, returning the first detailed images of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and…
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The QWERTY layout is one of the most successful pieces of interface design in history, in the narrow sense that essentially everyone uses it and nobody can dislodge it.…
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There is a museum on the island of Djurgården in Stockholm that was built around a single object, because the object was too large to get in through any…
The Leaning Tower of Pisa is the freestanding bell tower of Pisa Cathedral, standing in the Piazza dei Miracoli in Tuscany. It draws millions of visitors a year, almost all…