Top official sanctions case against Booker prize-winning novelist for comments about Kashmir
Our desire for electronics, fuel and geological riches is etched in devastating shapes and colours all over the globe. Mining has rewritten the surface of the Earth.
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Chennai is a bustling metropolis with a strong connection to its colonial era. The heritage buildings in the city bear testimony to the British influence on its culture.
Looking for treks near Mumbai? Here's a list of amazing monsoon trekking destinations near Mumbai & Pune you definitely must explore in 2023 rainy season.
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CAHOKIA MOUNDS PARK Cahokia Mounds is currently a State Historic Site. Cahokia is the area of an ancient city built around 600–1400 CE. It is near present day Collinsville, Illinois across the Miss…
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The history books will tell you that the first Thanksgiving was celebrated by the pilgrims in 1621. Not true. An interesting bit of trivia is that the first American Thanksgiving was actually celebrated on September 8, 1565 in St. Augustine, Florida. The Native Americans and Spanish settlers held a feast and the Holy Mass was […]
The Kailasa temple, one of the largest rock-cut ancient Hindu temples on the planet, is a structure that seriously shatters […]
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Libraries — especially those open to the public — perfectly embody the idea that education and culture exist as a basic human right, not the exclusive
In Meghalaya, north-east India, women own the land, Christianity dominates and the landscape is straight out of The Hobbit. Richard Eilers visits a most unusual Indian state
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Staircases are constructions designed to bridge a large vertical distances by dividing it into smaller vertical distances, called steps. People often avoid the stairs because they were boring and strenuous, and often choose to ride the elevators, but not every time...Some stairs next to the amazing design, have incredible views of the surrounding terrain and simply attract tourists and local visitors, to walk through them.
Alcatraz Island, also known as ‘The Rock,’ a rocky island in San Francisco Bay, off the coast of California, in the United States. From 1934 to 1963, a facility on the island served as a federal prison for some of the most dangerous civilian prisoners. Learn more about the history of Alcatraz Island here.
Heavy snow across Central Europe, a Transformer on the streets of Bogota, the Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills, Christmas fire in Saint Petersburg, and much more
Black women bear a disproportionate amount of the $1.6 trillion federal student debt total.
Native American reservations are essentially little third-world islands scattered all across the U.S. and Canada.
Indigenous Americans had (and have) rich traditions concerning their origins, but until the late 19th century, most outsiders’ knowledge about the Native American past was speculative at best. Among the more popular misconceptions were those holding that the first residents of the continent had been members of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel or refugees from the lost island of Atlantis, that their descendents had developed the so-called Mound Builder culture, and that Native Americans had later overrun and destroyed the Mound Builder civilization. These erroneous and overtly racist beliefs were often used to rationalize the destruction or displacement of
McLeod Ganj in Kangra district of the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh is India's own Mini Tibet. Read our guide to discover why.
The data reflects a sharp and steady drop in the number of Mexican immigrants since the credit crash in 2007.
L'Inde regorge de merveilles et Chand Baori en est la preuve ! Monument peu connu datant du moyen-âge, Chand Baori, situé dans la province du Rajasthan, est un puits immense encore conservé. Vous le reconnaissez surement non ? Il a servi de décor dans Batman , The Dark Knight Rises. Il avait autrefois une utilité
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Instead of celebrating a false Thanksgiving narrative, listen to and share the countless stories that aren’t being told
Before the American Revolution, which everyone knows about, six – count ‘em, six – French and Indian Wars engulfed the region for over 43 years. The French, Indians and British…
Somali government troops backed by African Union forces capture a major stronghold of al-Shabab Islamists, the port of Barawe.
The crumbling Italian lighthouse perched on the edge of Mogadishu's Old Harbor was built over a century ago, and abandoned some 20 years ago as trade dried up
A coconut fish curry, popular in the southern Indian state of Kerala - use pollock or any other sustainably sourced white fish fillets
CHITTORGARH, THE LARGEST FORT IN INDIA Photograph via IAmASeaLions on Reddit Chittorgarh Fort is the largest fort in India and the grandest in the state of Rajasthan. The fort,…
The Creation of Kerala Holiday Packages from Ahmedabad The southern state of Kerala occupies almost 600 kms of shoreline along the...
By the age of 10, most children in the United States have been taught all 50 states that make up the country. But centuries ago, the land that is now the United States was a very different place. Over 20 million Native Americans dispersed across over 1,000 distinct tribes, bands, and ethnic groups populated the territory.
An article about the Battle of Tippecanoe on 7 November 1811, which destroyed the Indian confederation formed by Shawnee Chief Tecumseh.
Learn about the role of treaties in the relationship between early American settlers and Indigenous communities
