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A look at the intriguing history of rope

The World's Host Carolyn Beeler speaks with Tim Queeney, who recently published a book that looks into the history and ...
Much like Google’s new logo, Microsoft has picked gradients of color for its Office icons. “Where gradients were once subtle, ...
Once derided as ‘boxes made of ticky-tacky,’ modest ranch homes from the burst of building after World War II are gaining ...
Nearly five decades after it hosted FESTAC ’77, the iconic National Theatre has been reborn as the Wole Soyinka Centre for Culture and Creative Arts, blending memory, music and pageantry in a Lagos ...
Martin Pitt continues his series on the history of coal, looking at coal gas, balloons and the fuels that lit the world ...