Turmoil in 19th Century Spain

President Paul Biya is the second longest serving leader in Africa...

There are as many Buddhas as there are atoms...

Nowadays, the charm of a Little Switzerland is not a lofty, aesthetic ideal of Romanticism...

Climb if you will, but remember that courage and strength are naught without prudence...

Pine martens retreated to the rocky crags of Snowdonia and the Lake District…

There was a time after the last Ice Age when pine martens thrived all across the British Isles...

Can the soul stroll?

Leslie Stephen Mountaineering

Nobody can deny that there are serious dangers in Alpine climbing...

You could repeat escapes over the Berlin Wall. Was she really there?

Madescent Malta

Malta is not so much an island as it is the top of a mountain...

Or so very little longer...

Dillenius identified several mosses and fungi, under the heading Cryptogams, denoting plants that reproduce via spores...

The Guggenheim Bilbao hits a quarter century

Outside, along the riverside, a confident linear park unpeels...

ZHUANG ZHOU DREAMS HE IS A BUTTERFLY...

The tea should be strong. For a pot holding a quart, if you are going to fill it nearly to the brim, six heaped teaspoons would be about right...

The thing about new blooms is that they tend to bleed— / Those petals birthed / hugging close / that come warmer weather are tricked into jumping away...

‘from An Explanation of America: Countries and Explanations’ by Robert Pinsky

Farah Abdessamad on François-René de Chateaubriand

I spent a good part of my childhood at home staring outside my bedroom window, following the trail of planes approaching the nearby Paris airport in the sky from my banlieue. I envied the passengers...