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Piccadilly Circus at night circa 1949, neon signs for Bovril Guinness Schweppes reflecting on wet cobblestones, red double-decker buses and black taxicabs in postwar London

Piccadilly Circus: London's Most Famous Crossroads

There are intersections, and then there is Piccadilly Circus. For well over a century, this corner of the West End has served as London’s unofficial living room — the place...

Piccadilly Circus: London's Most Famous Crossroads

There are intersections, and then there is Piccadilly Circus. For well over a century, this corner of the West End has served as London’s unofficial living room — the place...

Steaming plate of spaghetti with tomato sauce on a rustic Italian kitchen table with glass jars of dried pasta olive oil fresh basil and handwritten recipe in warm golden light

From Spaghetti to Stars: The History of Italian...

Pasta is one of the most documented foods in history. From the medieval Arab geographers who first described dried pasta in Sicily to the 20th-century factory catalogs that classified hundreds...

From Spaghetti to Stars: The History of Italian...

Pasta is one of the most documented foods in history. From the medieval Arab geographers who first described dried pasta in Sicily to the 20th-century factory catalogs that classified hundreds...

Victorian schoolroom in 1890 with teacher and students in period clothing attending a botany lesson with Marcius Willson chromolithographic school charts on the wall

Learning by Looking: Marcius Willson, the Objec...

In 1890, Harper & Brothers published a series of school charts by Marcius Willson and N.A. Calkins that transformed the way American children learned about the natural world. The story...

Learning by Looking: Marcius Willson, the Objec...

In 1890, Harper & Brothers published a series of school charts by Marcius Willson and N.A. Calkins that transformed the way American children learned about the natural world. The story...

The Mona Lisa painting behind bulletproof glass in an empty Louvre museum gallery with warm lighting and gilded frame

The Smile That Conquered the World: The Mona Li...

She has been the most famous painting in the world for just over a century. Before 1911, the Mona Lisa was celebrated but not uniquely so. It took a theft,...

The Smile That Conquered the World: The Mona Li...

She has been the most famous painting in the world for just over a century. Before 1911, the Mona Lisa was celebrated but not uniquely so. It took a theft,...

French architect's drafting table from 1878 with neo-medieval villa architectural drawing brass compass set square and ruling pen in afternoon light

Beauty for Everyone: Paul and Albert Leseine an...

In 1878, Architecture Nouvelle began publishing the work of two brothers from the Parisian suburbs whose villas were unlike anything else being built in France. Paul and Albert Leseine designed...

Beauty for Everyone: Paul and Albert Leseine an...

In 1878, Architecture Nouvelle began publishing the work of two brothers from the Parisian suburbs whose villas were unlike anything else being built in France. Paul and Albert Leseine designed...

British traveler's desk with leather passport London Underground map teacup Tower Bridge postcard

Two Thousand Years Along the Thames: The Monume...

London is not one city but many, layered across two thousand years of history along the banks of the Thames. From Tower Bridge to the Gherkin, from Westminster Abbey to...

Two Thousand Years Along the Thames: The Monume...

London is not one city but many, layered across two thousand years of history along the banks of the Thames. From Tower Bridge to the Gherkin, from Westminster Abbey to...