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Short TakesMedieval and Renaissance Tourism and City Guidebooks: Nice or Merely Necessary Places?
4 weeks agoBy Andrea M. Gáldy – Until recently, many of us were used to considerable mobility. Weekends away, summer holidays, conferences: all of those were part of our lives; we were modern and cosmopolitan. When we think of the past, however, “mobility” is not really the keyword coming to our minds […]
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ArchaeologiaRoman Aqueduct Engineering: The Delikkemer Inverted Siphon Near Patara Along the Lycian Way
2 months agoBy Ismayil Güracar – Nearly a decade ago I took a solo road and hiking trip along the Likya Yolu or Lycian Way where I encountered the main subject of this article. The Lycian Way is a nearly 500 km (300 mile) marked trail between Fethiye and Antalya along the southwestern […]
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ArtThe Homes of Henry David Thoreau
3 months ago“I have learned that even the smallest house can be a home.” Henry David Thoreau Written and Illustrated by John Roman Henry David Thoreau’s cabin at Walden Pond is his most famous residence, yet historians and scholars also credit several other sites in Massachusetts that served as “home” to this […]
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Architectural HistoryTrigonometry and Math – Egyptian Style
5 months agoA section of the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus, ca. 1550 BCE. It consists of reference tables, arithmetic, algebraic and geometric problems including volumes, and fractions (Courtesy of British Museum. London) By Susanne L. Houfek – The ancient Egyptians may not have taken trigonometry in school for entry level to a good university […]
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Food HistoryAlbert Seltz Wines in Mittelbergheim, Alsace
5 months agoBy Patrick Hunt – One of the oldest and respected domaines in Alsace, already known for some of the oldest continuing wineries in the world, is Domaine Albert Seltz in Mittelbergheim from 1576, with fourteen generations of wine production for highly sought-after wines. The current patriarch Albert took over from […]
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