A little-known Chief Storekeeper at the College's NROTC unit may have discovered in his travels what philosophers and scientists have been searching for through the ages--the key to the Universe. The ...

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Coco Chanel called luxury “a necessity that begins where necessity ends.” When form exceeds function, it expresses another kind of need, the claim to status. The British Museum’s “Luxury and Power: ...

Introduction: The Most Beautiful Blues -- Defining Polychromies -- Historiographical Overview, Part I: Approaching Achaemenid Persian Polychromies in the Nineteenth Century-Ancient Literary Testimony ...

Ancient engineers in Persia invented a form of natural air-conditioning thousands of years before electricity. Known as windcatchers, these towers harnessed airflow, water channels, and evaporative ...

From intricate windcatchers to innovative air channels, ancient engineers mastered natural cooling thousands of years before ...