The Big Buddha of Phuket and Its Viewpoints
Visit Phuket’s towering Big Buddha and the island’s best panoramic viewpoints.
The Biggest City Above the Arctic Circle: Murmansk and Its Port
A Soviet-built harbour city where giant icebreakers, a towering war memorial and the polar night define everyday life.
The Billionaire Janitor
An unemployed man applied to Microsoft for a janitor’s job. After a short interview and a practical test — cleaning a floor — the Human Resources officer told him: “You’re
The Black Death: The Two Years That Remade England
In the summer of 1348 a ship put in at the little Dorset port of Melcombe, near modern Weymouth, and something stepped ashore with the sailors that would kill perhaps
The Blinking Box in the Corner: How Your Wi-Fi Router Really Works
In this article The box that everyone has and nobody understands Modem or router? They are not the same thing From screeching dial-up to invisible Wi-Fi How Wi-Fi actually works:
The Bodo People of the Brahmaputra Valley
In the fertile plains along the Brahmaputra in Assam live the Bodo people, who call themselves Boro, counted among the earliest inhabitants of the great river valley of northeastern India.
The Breath of Motivation
When Bobby Fischer was preparing for his world-championship chess match against Boris Spassky, his daily training routine included a stretch of swimming underwater every day. He knew that as chess
The British Museum, London: Rosetta Stone, Mummies & Free Entry (London Travel Guide)
Step into the British Museum and you step into the entire story of humankind, all under one roof — and entirely for free. From ancient Egypt to imperial China, this
The British Museum: Highlights and Visitor’s Guide (London Travel Guide)
If you visit only one museum in London, make it the British Museum. Spanning two million years of human history under one roof — and completely free to enter —
The Buddhists of the Steppe, the Story of the Kalmyks
On the dry steppes north of the Caspian lives the only Buddhist people of Europe. This is the story of the Kalmyks, a Mongol nation who rode across a continent to make their home in Russia.
