Benjamin Franklin used naturalist Joseph Breintnall’s botanic prints of leaves on his paper currency to foil counterfeiters.

A common argument against increasing taxes on high earners is that the wealthy will simply move out of the city or state with higher taxes.

Judging by past executive orders, the US president’s newest policies on public lands may turn federal responsibilities over to state or local governments.

They have the fastest known jump among their kind according to a new study.

Aleksandr Volkov’s The Wizard of the Emerald City reimagined L. Frank Baum’s classic, imbuing the story with a love of labor for readers in the Eastern bloc.

As a follower of Stoic philosophy, Pliny used sensory experience to try to understand the divine.

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Whether it supports the production of wine or cheese, terroir is a “particularly French conception of cultural territory” says historian Tamara L. Whited.

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The clean, green garden city of Singapore has been built on sand extracted—at significant environmental cost—from its neighbors.