Lists and Stories

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  Can You Really Sweat Out Toxins? You’re in your weekly yoga class, inverted and stretching out your body as piped-in sitar music plinks soothingly in the background. Concentrating, you ease further into the position. A drop of sweat slides down the bridge of your nose and pools on your yoga mat. The instructor croons, “That’s...
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  Canada: 10 Claims to Fame O Canada! The Great White North is truly diverse, beautiful, and full of history. Explore some of the country’s natural and cultural claims to fame! list, Canada, Quebec City, polar bear, history, ice hockey, NHL, maple leaf, lake, lakes, maple syrup, oil, tar sands, Inuit, Mounties, Royal Canadian...
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  Cannibalism: Cultures, Cures, Cuisine, and Calories Perhaps nothing inspires as much fascination and repulsion as human cannibalism. Although it is now regarded as one of society’s greatest taboos and is often associated with evil—think Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs (1991)—history reveals a practice that is more complex and,...
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  Capability Brown at 300 On August 30, 2016, we celebrate the tercentenary of the baptism (his actual birth date is uncertain) of an outstanding landscape gardener, Lancelot (“Capability”) Brown, one of the pioneers and supreme practitioners of the “serpentine” style that gripped England in the mid to late 18th century....
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  Carlo Gesualdo: Murder, Witchcraft, Choral Music For centuries, the Italian nobleman and composer Carlo Gesualdo (1566–1613) has been a figure of fascination, although his fame rests more on the troubled life he led than the unusual, challenging musical compositions he left behind. The main events of his life seem to have come out of a gothic...
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  Casualties from the Battle of Midway This infographic helps with visualizing casualties from the Battle of Midway, which took place June 3–6, 1942, in the Pacific Ocean during World War II between naval forces of the United States and Japan. It presents Japanese losses in ships, aircraft, and men side by side with U.S. losses....
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  Causes of the Great Depression The Great Depression of the late 1920s and ’30s remains the longest and most severe economic downturn in modern history. Lasting almost 10 years (from late 1929 until about 1939) and affecting nearly every country in the world, it was marked by steep declines in industrial production and in prices...
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  CC, The First Cloned Cat CC was the world’s first cloned pet. Here are five quick facts about this groundbreaking cat. list, animals, science, cloning, clone, cats, first, cat, kittens, copy, genetics, identicalMeet CC, short for Carbon Copy or Copy Cat (depending on who you ask). She was the world’s first cloned pet. CC...
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  Celebrate Earth Day 2015 marks the 45th annual celebration of Earth Day, observed on April 22 in the United States and elsewhere around the world. Earth Day is a time to acknowledge the achievements of the environmental movement and to raise awareness of ecological sustainability. spotlight, earth day, conservation,...
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  Celebrating Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders May is officially designated Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month in the United States, celebrating the accomplishments, contributions, and histories of Asian/Pacific Americans. Asian/Pacific Americans are broadly understood to have ethnic ties to countries in the Asian continent and...
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  Celebrating Elizabeth Cady Stanton at 200 Elizabeth Cady was the daughter of a New York Supreme Court judge. Her father’s influence and her studies at a school that took the education of women seriously laid the foundation for her lifelong commitment to women’s suffrage. At age 25 she married Henry Brewster Stanton, a lawyer and...
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  Celebrating Kwanzaa Millions of African Americans and other members of the African diaspora gather with family and friends each year from December 26 to January 1 to celebrate Kwanzaa. The secular holiday, which has its roots in African harvest festivals, is an affirmation of African family and social values. Kwanzaa...
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  Celebrating Le Corbusier August 27, 2025, marks the 60th anniversary of the drowning death of Le Corbusier, one of the iconic architects of the 20th century. His travels as a young man helped him develop the principles he followed as an architect—and wrote extensively about—over the course of his life. Largely self-taught,...
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  Celebrating LGBTQ Pride Throughout the month of June, communities in the U.S. and many other nations hold events celebrating lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender identities, often collectively known as Gay Pride or LGBTQ Pride. Gay Pride celebrations are usually a series of events culminating in a parade of colorful...
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  Celebrating Ramadan The Islamic holy month of Ramadan is a time for Muslims all over the world to renew their focus on spiritual life and its practical application in daily life. It is the ninth month of the Muslim calendar. According to Islamic tradition, it was on the 27th day of Ramadan that the Prophet Muhammad...
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  Celebrating the 70th Birthday of Bob Marley Bob Marley became a musical legend who instilled the poor of his country with a sense of identity. spotlight, bob marley, music, musician, birthday, jamaica,...
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  Celebrating the Birth of a Genius Albert Einstein’s profound array of achievements has made the word "Einstein" synonymous with genius. spotlight, albert einstein, science, history, inventors, scientists,...
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  Rosh Hashana Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year holiday, is held every year from 1 to 10 Tishri (falling in September or October) in the lunisolar Jewish liturgical calendar. It is a time of reflection upon one’s relationship as a Jew with God and upon God’s historical relationship with Israel, his chosen...
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  The Afterlife of Miguel de Cervantes Miguel de Cervantes died in Madrid on April 22, 1616. He was buried the next day in a convent. When the convent was rebuilt decades later, Cervantes’s remains were moved, but at some point their exact location became unknown. The grave of Spain’s greatest writer had essentially vanished. But that...
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  Charles III: A Life in Pictures Charles Philip Arthur George was born to be king, and in many ways he has helped redefine the British monarchy. The longest-serving heir apparent in the country’s history, Charles often broke with royal tradition, and he was the first royal to grow up in the glare of an increasingly invasive media....