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A teapot made in South Carolina during the 1760s by an enigmatic English émigré potter named John Bartlam provides an allegory for porcelain’s journey from the East.

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The discovery of a Brazilian orchid with huge red-and-purple flowers in the early nineteenth century set off a mania for the exotic plants in Victorian England.

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The wooden heart I wear over my own like a tiny armor plate was carved by the hands of a geography teacher from Melitopol. Maybe this is why it looks like

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In a quartet of books about life in the mountains of southern Bulgaria and North Macedonia as they descend into Greece, Kapka Kassabova gives voice to the shepherds, nomads, horse breeders, dog breeders, villagers, and refugees who live there.

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New drone technology is transforming the battlefield in Ukraine—and demonstrating the obsolescence of much Western weaponry.

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The Israeli government has announced plans to make civilians in the Strip accept further displacement as a condition of receiving food—and eventually to push them out of Palestine altogether.

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