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Posted 1 year, 11 months ago
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Cleopatra Didn’t Need Friends, $200K to Cruise the Nile
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Fantasy? Wild, Windswept Isolation of Lighthouse Keepers
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Geotagging Daguerre’s “First Travel Photo”
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Montana Tells 20,000-Year History of Computing
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Inside Cairo’s Forgotten, Secretive Train Museum
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Eat Alone like Salinger in Vermont Diner
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Belgium’s 500 Years of Horse Fishing
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Finding the Tree of Sheikh Adam in Egypt’s Desert
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Soaring Slips in Bin of Architectural History
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Tony Judt Imagines a World without Trains
Posted 1 year, 8 months ago
“If you try to imagine the world that existed before 1830, before the first railway line in England, between Manchester and Liverpool, it’s quite literally unimaginable.”
In an interview in the newest issue of The Nation, historian Tony Judt talks about his new book, Ill Fares the Land,…
KEEP READING »Means of Historical Travel: Early Air Balloons
Posted 1 year, 9 months ago
A question in light of jets grounded across Europe because of volcanic ash particles: could a balloon fly through that? The era of airships is bygone and fast trains are far likelier to replace downed planes. But balloons, dirigibles and Zeppelins may still have their uses, perhaps beyond…
KEEP READING »American Embassies: Not Always Fortresses
Posted 1 year, 10 months ago
Last month a glass-walled, green fortress was unveiled in London, the winning design for the new, billion-dollar American embassy. Critics, not all of them architectural, panned the proposal.
