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IN THE WONDER ROOMS

In an age of dogma, Europe’s Wunderkammern celebrated a world of wonders.

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THE TRAVELS OF IBN BATTUTA

The West marvels at Marco Polo. But the rest know that no one traveled farther and wider than Morocco’s ibn Battuta.

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Where once barbed wire and minefields stretched, a miracle now spans the former Iron Curtain.

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All those comets, craters, exo-planets. . . Who names them? And why is there a crater on Mercury named John Lennon?

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IN 1827, when Egypt sent a giraffe to France, there was only one way to get her to Paris.

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Once you’ve seen our “blue marble” from space, you’re never the same again. Could this be the change we’ve been looking for?