For polyglot Irina Pravet, learning a language isn’t just about grammar. She sees knowing Finnish as a way to belong – and ...

This short tells a story about what would happen if the Grinch got mad, and stole Christmas once again. First thing they ...

Germany’s growers have started to cut their Christmas trees in anticipation of a tradition that’s around 500 years old.

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Maps have always both granted power and threatened it, depending on who controls the data, the scale and the narrative.

Peter Aufschnaiter was an Austrian climber who lived an adventurous, varied life, including turning a prison escape into ...

From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads, according to Google Maps, could’ve been a straight ... before cycling through Germany to Holland to catch the ferry to Harwich. Finally, I headed north via English ...

Some of the words are cutesy (kerfuffle, jubilee). Others are onomatopoeic, with a similar sound to the idea they’re describing (meow, clink, squeak). Some are bizarre sounding (for example, syzygy: ...

Experience Butler County PA reports on Pennsylvania's rich German heritage, spotlighting historic towns like Harmony, ...

Here are five maps and charts to help you understand New York City and how the vote works. New York City is the most populous ...

Passengers on what should have been a routine United Airlines flight from Des Moines, Iowa to Chicago got a lot more than ...

Far away in Germany, a teacher of English who fled her homeland in the Russian Far East works on a role-playing exercise with her high school students. It is, we soon realise, based on the story of ...