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The Himalayas of northwestern Bhutan are peaks of such otherworldly beauty, locals believe them to be home to spirits. In the ...

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From the oracles of ancient Rome to Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung, humans have long turned to the dream world to decode the ...

Emerging in monasteries and convents, apothecaries were later incorporated into guilds to serve the general public. But the ...

Mexico's $30 billion Tren Maya railway was built to unite the country and honor ancient Maya sites. Now that it’s up and ...

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We don't know the number of asymptomatic cases.” First discovered in 1955, the virus is transmitted from person to person by ...