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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…
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…
No word is truly untranslatable — you can always explain it in a sentence. What these words offer is compression: a single term for something English needs a paragraph to…
Standing behind falling water is a truly strange sensation: the noise, the light coming through the curtain, the cold air pushed out by the fall. The geology that produces it…
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Look at a map of the Amazon and something is missing, though it takes a moment to notice. The river runs roughly 4,000 miles from the Andes to the…