In her office on the 17th floor of MIT’s Building 54 ... Laser beams streak from the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope array in Chile’s Atacama Desert.

Leonard Cohen famously sang about oranges that came from China in his ... By the 17th century, the fashion for growing citrus had extended to Britain and northern Europe, where orangeries ...

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The $100 billion Gelephu Mindfulness City is set to remake capitalism and attract businesses with its focus on green ...

A Roman fortress, then a Viking stronghold, followed by a Medieval wool-trading center, then an Industrial railway hub, and finally, a confectionary capital. In the centuries since its founding in 71 ...

"All the different cultures came from the Philippines, China ... Century, Kamehameha I unified the islands and became the first ruler of the new Kingdom of Hawaii. The arrival of Europeans in the ...

Of emperors and dynasties - see how ancient jade and gold, dragons and cranes are used in eye-catching, new ways The history of jewellery in China is long and well documented, with pieces dating back ...

In Italy, births fell below 400,000 for the first time since the 19th century. The population has peaked in 63 countries and territories, about half in Europe ... and other blue-collar jobs and to 58 ...

The sun began to rise, the sky was a clear blue and Bodfish, suddenly not as cold ... The whalers were from all over the place -- China, Japan, the U.S., Malaysia, eastern Europe and Canada. The ...

Dating back to the 17th century, the continually controversial Bergen blue laws ban the Sunday sale of non-essential items such as furniture, appliances, clothing and cars, the Record said.

The closest echo in art history for such a fiercely furrowed, lock-eyed, and, yes, trumpant glare is an out-of-the-way portrait from the paintbrush of the 17th-Century Italian Baroque artist ...