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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The New York City Highline

Live Reporting, Long 19th- 20th centuries / November 15, 2023 / architecture, art, U.S. history

Here are scenes from the High Line of New York City, considered one of Manhattan’s most popular attractions. It isn’t that old: a group called…

Central Pennsylvania’s Hemlock Natural Area

Live Reporting / October 30, 2024 / environmental history, U.S. natural parks

Near Big Spring State Park in central Pennsylvania lies the Hemlocks Natural Area. Made up of about 120-acres of rare old-growth forest, the region became…

Chimney Top on the North Fork Trail of West Virginia

Big History, Live Reporting / August 26, 2023 / environmental history, U.S. natural parks

These are the views of Chimney Top, a Tuscarora quartzite outcropping at the end of the North Fork Trail on the similarly named mountain in…

Importance of Sibyls Oracles in the Ancient World

Ancient History, Long 19th- 20th centuries / December 6, 2024 / ancient greece, art, literature, political history, religion, Rome, social history, warfare

“The Priestess of Delphi,” by John Collier (1891). This haunting painting of one of the famous oracles from Ancient Greece – known as the Sibyls…

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