Pallisades View

View of the Pallisades from the Medieval Cloisters at the New York Metropolitan Museum, where over 200 million years ago the supercontinent Pangea ripped apart.

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Cahuita National Park

Live Reporting / September 10, 2025 / animals, environmental history

The National Park of Cahuita on the Carribean side of Costa Rica was created in 1970, and is part of the extensive system of wildlife…

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Ancient History / October 24, 2024 / Christian history, Eurasia/Middle Eastern history, religion, Rome

“What’s myrrh, anyway?,” declares the mother of Brian in the classic Monty Python sketch (see second image). Turns out, gold, frankincense and myrrh had a…

Surgery in Ancient Pompeii

Ancient History, History of Science / November 15, 2024 / art, disease, literature, medicine, Rome

This fresco from the first-century ruins of Pompeii show that Ancient Roman physicians knew how to practice surgery. In a world without the scientific method,…

Apollo 11 and the Mare Tranquilitatis

Ancient History, Early Modern, Long 19th- 20th centuries / December 10, 2024 / art, literature, math

Tomorrow, July 20, 2019, will mark the 50th anniversary of the landing of Apollo 11 on the moon: the module of the spacecraft called _Eagle_…

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