Among all the decorations awarded by the United States military, one stands apart. It is not given for bravery, leadership, or extraordinary achievement. Instead, it recognizes something far more personal: the physical cost of war. The Purple Heart is awarded to those who have be ...Show more
The Harlem Renaissance
In the early decades of the twentieth century, a neighborhood in New York City became the center of an extraordinary cultural explosion. Writers, musicians, artists, and thinkers gathered to create works that reshaped American culture and redefined how Black Americans were expres ...Show more
New Generation Thinker Majed Akhter explores how large dam projects continue to form reservoirs of hope for a sustainable future. Despite their known drawbacks, our love affair with dams has not abated – across the world more than 3,500 dams are in various stages of construction. ...Show more
In the early 1960s, Unesco appealed for scientists to go to Egypt to save antiquities that were threatened by the construction of one of the largest dams in the world, the Aswan High Dam on the River Nile.Professor Herman Bell answered that call from the UN. He spoke to Louise Hi ...Show more
Measuring 240 feet long from paw to tail, and around the height of a six-story building, the Great Sphinx is one of Egypt’s most spectacular, and mysterious, monuments. Believed to have been built over four millennia ago, much of its story has been lost to history, and the rest i ...Show more
Nestled deep in the heart of Beijing, the Forbidden City stands as one of the world’s greatest architectural marvels. Built in the early 15th century as the secretive seat of imperial rule, it’s the largest palace complex anywhere in the world, and the biggest wooden structure on ...Show more