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COLUMN: Kyiv signs three drone deals, and Europe finally gets it
For a long time, Ukraine at NATO summits was described as a country showing up to ask — for weapons, funding, guarantees. On July…
COLUMN: China Evacuates 130,000 as Two Typhoons Strike in a Single Week
It took only a few days for China to tumble from one disaster straight into another. Just as authorities were still counting the dead…
How Cambridge students invented the rules of modern football
In 1863, students at the University of Cambridge, in England, drafted one of the very first written sets of rules for association
Understanding why ancient Olympic athletes competed naked
Did you know that in ancient Greece, athletes who took part in the Olympic Games competed without a stitch of clothing, a
The Japanese Inn Run by the Same Family for 46 Generations
There exists in Japan a hot-spring inn whose history almost defies ordinary Western understanding of family continuity and entrepreneurial longevity. This inn,
On the island of Yap, money takes the shape of giant stone discs
On the island of Yap, in Micronesia, wealth is not hidden in a vault or a digital bank account: it stands out
The Qing dynasty ruled history's most populous empire
The Qing dynasty, founded by conquerors from Manchuria, ruled China from 1644 until its collapse in 1912. At its peak, in the
Why Genghis Khan's tomb has stayed lost for eight centuries
Genghis Khan, founder of the Mongol Empire, died in 1227 during a military campaign against the kingdom of Western Xia, under circumstances
The Voynich manuscript, undeciphered for a century despite the best cryptographers
Among the precious collections of Yale University's Beinecke Library sits one of the most enigmatic documents ever studied by historians and cryptographers: