Design is everywhere in our lives, perhaps most importantly in the places where we've just stopped n
Dollar stores are not just a U.S. phenomenon. They can be found in Australia and the United Kingdom,
Through a combination of passive and active acoustics, architects and acousticians can control the s
People who write the White House know that the president himself will most likely not see their mess
Every now and again, a truly great athlete shatters all previous assumptions about what’s possible t
In the summer of 1961 the upper stage of the rocket carrying the Transit 4A satellite blew up about
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On the night of February 27th, 2010, a magnitude of 8.8 earthquake hit Constitución, Chile and it wa
On September 11, 1973, a military junta violently took control of Chile, which was led at the time b
Reporter Whitney Jones argues that R.E.M.’s Out of Time is the most politically significant album in
Who decides that the color this season is “mint green” or that denim jackets are “back?” Of course,
Large portions of San Francisco, New York City, Boston, Seattle, Hong Kong and Marseilles were built
Infrastructure makes modern civilization possible. Roads, power grids, sewage systems and water netw
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Founded by architect Walter Gropius in 1919, the Bauhaus school in Germany would go on to shape mode
The largest body of water in California was formed by a mistake. In 1905, the California Development
In 1996, President Bill Clinton and the Congress undertook a reform effort to redesign the welfare s
The US military buys a lot of foam ear plugs. Visit any base and you’ll find them under the bleacher
In 1943, the Army Corps of Engineers began construction on a scale model that could test flooding in
In the late 1950s, the Institute of Personality Assessment and Research embarked on a mission to stu
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