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At the end of Chapter III of Through the Looking-Glass (1871), Alice emerges from the Lethean wood, is promptly abandoned by ...

The Irish aptitude for storytelling has long been lauded as a national characteristic, and its outlets in different literary ...

The Ming doctor Li Shizhen’s pharmacopoeia is widely known in China, and the man himself has appeared on postage stamps and ...

The best museum sleepover ever would be to spend a night in the Parthenon Gallery at the Acropolis Museum in Athens, bedding down among the sculptures, looking out at the Parthenon itself. That is ...

The ideas of the German-Jewish mathematician Emmy Noether (not least the four-part theorem that bears her name) laid the foundation for much of modern physics, yet it is the case that students today ...

Arthur Machen’s “N” (1936), written towards the end of his career, is a “lost domain” story warning of what might happen to those who, while walking in London, “wander away from the friendly tavern ...