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Glasgow Necropolis
The giant cemetery in the cathedral district of Glasgow, Scotland, feels more like a place out of a Harry Potter movie than it does like real life. Photo by Brendan van Son. Around sunset, the...
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Austin Capitol
When they say that everything in Texas is bigger, they’re not messing around. Photo by Brendan van Son. Forget the fact that the food, voices, and perhaps even the people themselves are bigger. Their...
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Illustrating the Fracking Process
As a technical illustrator for Western civilization’s oldest continuing lexicon, I have the unique opportunity to learn about aspects of life and how our universe works that might not even occur to me...
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Busy Dublin Bridge
The locals like to say that Dublin, Ireland, is like a little village that has somehow turned into a big city. Photo by Brendan van Son. The great thing about Dublin is that in many ways it manages to...
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Halls of Thrones: Castles
Britannica continues its examination of George R.R. Martin‘s hit fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire (and its accompanying TV series Game of Thrones) with a look at the architecture of Westeros....
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The Increase and Diffusion of Knowledge: Origins of the Smithsonian
Most Americans have some familiarity with the Smithsonian Institution, it being the main repository of our cultural patrimony and thus an obligatory stop on most middle school ventures to the nation’s...
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From Servicemen to Segways in 70 Years
Mouse over the image below to see the view from Chicago’s Buckingham Fountain in 1942 and in 2012. Images are courtesy of Ned Mulka. Seventy years ago, the scene around Buckingham Fountain reflected...
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2012 in Review: Preserving the Past
Since 1938 Britannica’s annual Book of the Year has offered in-depth coverage of the events of the previous year. While the book won’t appear in print for several months, some of its outstanding...
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The Geography of the Supermarket
In 1916, in the bustling riverport city of Memphis, Tennessee, the first completely self-service grocery store in America opened, the flagship of a chain that would become iconic in the South—namely,...
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“World Peace through Trade”: Remembering the World Trade Center
Yesterday marked the 40th anniversary of the dedication of the World Trade Center. Prior to the completion of the Sears (now Willis) Tower in 1974, One World Trade Center was the world’s tallest...
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The Washington Monument: Still Under Repair, but Coming Along
Two years ago, on August 23, 2011, a rare event occurred on the normally tectonically quiet Piedmont of Virginia: an earthquake measuring 5.8 on the Richter scale. That is not huge, as earthquakes...
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Celebrated Summer: Making Sun Prints with Transparencies
Sun print, 8.5″ x 11″. Credit: Bill Guerriero “Summer is a toothpaste tube and in August you gotta squeeze the bottom.” —Samantha Vincenty Maybe you remember sun prints (also known as cyanotypes) from...
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Of Mullions and Mustard: Four Museums Off the Beaten Path
The grand courtyard of the National Building Museum, Washington, D.C. Credit: Gregory McNamee. All rights reserved. Like many travel buffs, I am a collector of unusual places—those venues, usually in...
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Britannica Blog Archive: Posts from 2009 Rare Moons (On the Occasion of the Year-Ending Blue Moon of 2009) Australia’s “Great Ocean Road” is Indeed Great! The Rolling Stones Sell Rice Krispies (Great...
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Britannica Blog Archive: Posts from 2010 The Zombie Diet A Pictorial Toast to New Year’s Nanotechnology: The Science of Miniaturization (Picture Essay of the Day) The Collins Kids, “Chantilly Lace”...
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Britannica Blog Archive: Posts from 2011 The Euro Turns 10 (So How’s that Working Out for You?) What Do Squirrels Do in Winter? The Realities of Homelessness Walking with the World on the Camino de...
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Britannica Blog Archive: Posts from 2012 2012 in Review: Notable Anniversaries Almost Apocalypse: Five Questions for Writer and Explorer Craig Childs The Maya and the End of the World 2012 in Review:...
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Britannica Blog Archive: Posts from 2013 A Clever Use of Spines 2013 in Review: Elephant Poaching First Neutrinos from Outer Space 2013 in Review: Virtual Currency Crazy-Thorax Membracid They Call it...
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Seven years, 4,783 posts, around 300 contributors. Britannica Blog has had a good run since it first came online in 2006. But new ideas come to light, new paradigms emerge, and new tasks are taken on...
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