12 Days of Festive Space and Sci-Fi Holiday Books
📋 Key Facts ✓ Yuletide season is officially upon us. ✓ Joyous array of new titles for holiday reading list. ✓ 1...
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📋 Key Facts ✓ Yuletide season is officially upon us. ✓ Joyous array of new titles for holiday reading list. ✓ 1...
A unique wedding ritual among China’s Bao’an ethnic group known as “flogging the father-in-law” sees the family of the groom symbolically whip the bride’s father 20 times. As he endures his “punishmen...
📋 Key Facts ✓ Croatia's capital aims to host Europe's best Christmas market. ✓ Festive events help put cities on the map. ...
The original art director of Magic: The Gathering, Jesper Myrfors, has once again taken to social media to offer some interesting behind-the-scenes insight into the early days of the game, this time e...
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As bombs fell and famine took hold, Samir Mansour kept delivering books...
More and more Middle Eastern women thrive as comedians. Could their success on stage, in the film industry, at comedy festivals and on social media foster empowerment for the next generation of girls?...
A brand-new museum showcases the many fascinating medieval artefacts that archaeologists are finding underneath the German capital....
Long before modern telescopes, early astronomers mapped the heavens with math, myth, and sheer curiosity. This crossword quiz celebrates the minds who first charted the cosmos....
Brigitte Bardot's funeral was held on January 7 with a private service and a public homage in Saint-Tropez, the French Riviera resort where she lived for more than half a century after retiring from m...
As traces of the Middle Ages are uncovered in the heart of Berlin, a new museum — PETRI Berlin — has been founded to house these discoveries....
A brand-new museum has been established in Berlin to showcase the many fascinating Medieval artefacts that are being found underneath the German capital....
Think you know your Le Guin from your Liu? Let’s find out...
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The actress and singer was a symbol of sexual revolution. She later became an animal-welfare campaigner and incendiary right-wing commenter....
Days before New Year's Eve, crows gathered in Times Square to write down their bad memories and make room for better luck in 2026....
When Arthur Sze translates classical Tang dynasty poetry into English, he writes Chinese characters by hand, slowing himself to the pace of brush strokes and gaps. This deliberate resistance to speed ...
In a country without film archives, one man is preserving Lebanon's film industry history. With thousands of movie posters, Abboudi Bou Jaoude is saving cinematic heritage in an archive that's emotion...
Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/obituaries/inge-lehmann-overlooked.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46360080 Points: 10 # Comments: 1...