Mao Mao, a two-year-old British Shorthair from Chongqing, China, works as a professional cat model and earns between 5,000 yuan...
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We are a couple of kilometers west of the ancient city of Axum, Ethiopia, where stands the isolated hill of...
Yin and Yang Fish is a controversial dish where the body of a fish is cooked, while the head is...
Traditionally, Beltane honours life, and represents the peak of Spring and the beginning of Summer. This spring celebration is all...
A year ago, on February 27, 2020, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe requested that all schools in Japan shut down until...
Every April, the people of Kairuppala, a village in Andhra Pradesh state, Southern India, engage in an epic cow dung...
Designed by Louis Vuitton’s menswear artistic director Virgil Abloh as part of this year’s men’s collection, this airplane-shaped handbag recently...
The Cerealia was one of the most important festivals in Rome. It was held for seven days from mid- to...
Glasnevin Cemetery, in Irish Reilig Ghlas Naíon, is a large cemetery in Glasnevin, Dublin, Ireland which opened in 1832. It...
Inspired by the firm belief that spaghetti is far from the ideal shape for pasta, a man set out to...
For at lest 300 years, hikers in California’s Santa Lucia Mountains have been reporting sightings of shadowy, mysterious silhouettes popularly...
"But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more." 🧜♀️ The tale of The Little Mermaid...
Many miners in the 19th century both in the United Kingdom and America but not only, believed in the existence...
In Rome and in Greece, in this period, the Pleiades were remembered, and predictions were made on the illnesses of...
Photos of a moldy-looking bun sold on Chinese online marketplace Taobao have been getting a lot of attention on Asian...
Known simply as "La maison dans la Loire" (literally the House in the Loire), the three-storey building looks like the...
A UK company has sparked some controversy online for selling glass bottles filled literally with the "freshest coastal air" for...
In the last several centuries before the fall of the Roman Empire (476 A.D.), Roman devotees of the goddess Cybele...
Not even death put an end to the luxurious lifestyles of some of Manila’s wealthy Chinese residents. Here, in the...
Iran’s Dasht-e Lut desert, also known simply as Lut Desert, is only the 25th largest desert in the world, but...
The Bridgewater Triangle is an infamous area within southeastern Massachusetts in the United States, that is known for its odd...
It wasn't just any clam. Ming the Clam was 507 years old. For his whole life, he lived on the...
Leshy, literally He-of-the-forest is a tutelary deity of the forests in Slavic mythology. He was depicted a tall, elderly man...
Jacu Bird Coffee is one of the world’s rarest (and most expensive) coffee varieties. It is made from coffee cherries...
Escamol is an ancient dish made with the edible larvae and pupae of two species of ants, known for its...
According to a Russian legend, hidden beneath the waters of Lake Svetloyar, in the Nizhny Novgorod Region north-east of Moscow,...
Black Shuck, Old Shuck, Old Shock or simply Shuck is the name given to a ghostly black dog which is...
It was drawn 2,000 years ago and does not depict superheroes, cute little animals or thieves in a luxury car,...
Lupercalia was one of the most ancient of the Roman holidays, one of the feriae listed on ancient calendars from...
In the Victorian era, and also into the 20th century, lovers exchanged elaborate lace-trimmed cards on Valentine’s Day, expressing their...
