Pierre Rainero of Cartier explains the enchantment of the brand’s newest watches
Pierre Rainero from Cartier shares about the maison's latest magical-themed timepieces such as the Santos-Dumont Rewind watch ...
Pierre Rainero from Cartier shares about the maison's latest magical-themed timepieces such as the Santos-Dumont Rewind watch ...
One of the environmental activists who scaled Montreal’s Jacques Cartier Bridge last week is refusing to eat while in police ...
The Yangtze River is one of the longest rivers in the world, flowing nearly 4,000 miles from the western interior of China to the coast in Shanghai, and the surrounding valleys are home to thousands of species of woody and flowering plants, many of them rare. But throughout the river valley, temperatures are warming too fast for many native plant species to migrate or adapt in place, and hardier, non-native varieties are taking their place. Nautilus Memb
Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . In the summer of 1862, at the height of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Morrill Act, which set aside federal land for new colleges to “promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes.” Two months earlier, President Lincoln created the United States Department of Agr
Have you picked your Halloween costume yet? There’s still time, especially if you’re willing to brave the crowded, rubber mask–scented aisles of a costume store. There’s the standard witch hats and skeleton suits, tiny princess and superhero costumes for children, and supplies to dress as whatever’s in the pop-culture water. I imagine that this year, in 2024, we’ll be seeing a lot of Beetlejuices and Rayguns. On the higher end, celebrities don’t hit up Spirit Halloween for their costumes. Thin
Lake Chelan invites superlatives. It is extraordinarily narrow: it extends over 50 miles into the heart of the Cascade Range, but averages only a bit more than a mile wide. It is the deepest lake in Washington (and the third-deepest in the United States) at 1,486 feet, behind only Crater Lake in Oregon (1,949 feet) and Lake Tahoe between California and Nevada (1,645 feet). It sits in a glacially carved valley, oversteepened by the glaciation, such that not only are the slopes extremely steep bu
“I don’t have jet lag. Jet lag is a luxury. That means that you’re always well-rested,” Pearl Lam tells Artsy after handing over a bag of snack-sized Cape Cod Salt & Pepper Kettle Chips and a Diet Coke.Artsy meets the Hong Kong gallerist on the 10th floor of a building in Manhattan’s Garment District just after she has finished recording an episode for her self-titled podcast at ASL Studios. New York was just a pit stop in Lam’s hec
Seven hundred feet above the banks of the Colorado River, hikers can find what looks like a collection of square windows cut into the sandstone. The carvings were made around the year 1100 by the Ancestral Puebloan people. The cutouts served as grain storage facilities that were designed to be sealed, protecting food stores from seasonal flooding, rodents, and insects. The ruins are most easily accessed from the Colorado River, at a beach 53 miles downstream from Lee’s Ferry. Once there, it is
This article is adapted from the October 26, 2024, edition of Gastro Obscura’s Favorite Things newsletter. You can sign up here. Throughout my 20s, I hosted an annual birthday costume party with a different theme each year. The theme for my 21st was, of course, alcohol: I glued crystals to my face and went as Bombay Sapphire. But as my interest in food grew over time, the focus of my parties shifted from the costumes to the menu, and I stopped limiting myself to just my birthday. Last year, I p
Founded in 1216, St. Olave’s Priory was dedicated to St. Olav, the patron saint of Norway, which is unusual for religious sites in England. The priory was established by a local nobleman named Roger Fitz-Osbert to create a community for Augustinian Canons, who focused on both worship and helping the local area. Today, the ruins of St. Olave’s Priory are all that remains of what was once a busy religious community. The most notable part still standing is the gatehouse, built in the 14th century
Situated between the cities of Liège and Brussels sits Omal, a small Hesbaye village which is intersected by the Roman road Boulogne-Bavay-Cologne. Driving along the street, it is nearly impossible to miss the burial mounds, called tumuli, on either side. The collection is referred to as "The Five Tombs," and is thought to date back to the second or third century. Though there are forty or so tumuli sites in the Hesbaye—the natural region where almost all the tumuli in Belgium are located—thes
The David Bowie Centre will open its doors on September 13, 2025, granting unprecedented access to the extensive David Bowie archive for the first time. This facility will be a highlight of the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A)’s new East Storehouse location in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London, which will partially open to the public on May 31, 2025. The V&A secured the David Bowie archive in 2023. The archive features over
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In 1987-1988, an archaeological dig was undertaken at the Tomizawa site in Sendai as a preliminary inspection for the construction of an elementary school. It had been long known as the site of a prehistoric settlement, but no one expected to find what was buried underneath: a fossilized 20,000-year-old forest. In favor of this unique archaeological site like no other, the construction project was immediately dropped and moved elsewhere. In 1996, the Sendai City Tomizawa Site Museum—commonly k
DEPLOYANT - The watch magazine for collectors, by collectors Before the advent of the Streamliner, the Pioneer collection was the sporty face of H. Moser & Cie. To put in simple terms, it is a more masculine, casual, chunky iteration of what you typically see from Moser that isn’t a Streamliner. It’s not just the looks, of course; the Pioneer is indeed water-resistant to [...] The post Review: The New H. Moser & Cie. Pioneer Retrograde Seconds appeared first on DEPLOYANT.
Breguet has enriched its Classique collection with two elegant models that combine noble materials such as platinum and "Grand Feu" enamel: the three-hand Classique 5177PT and the Classique 7787PT, with moon-phases and power reserve indication.In this collection, this is the first time that Grand Feu enamel dials are encased in platinum cases. Nicknamed "the metal of kings," platinum is distinguished by its striking grey hue, often mistaken for white gold or silver. However, several qualities se
One of the most iconic moments in Brian De Palma’s 1976 movie Carrie comes right before the credits roll. By now the titular Carrie is dead, having massacred her high school bullies, stabbed her abusive mother, and destroyed her family home with herself inside. After the dust settles, we cut to a dream sequence with the sole survivor of this killing spree, a teenager named Sue. For more than a minute, the camera lingers on Sue approaching the site of Carrie’s death and then laying down a bunch
Among London’s oldest statues, the origins of some are very well known, such as the statue of Queen Elizabeth I outside St. Duncan-in-the-West on Fleet Street, while the origins of others are unclear, such as the lower half of the statue of Alfred the Great in Southwark. The statue called the Ancient Melancholy Man in Holland Park falls within the category of statues with unknown origins. The approximately 180-centimeter-tall limestone statue depicts an indistinct bearded man with a cloak and
This story was originally published on The Conversation. It appears here under a Creative Commons license. There’s one question I get every time I give a talk. I’m a curator of political history at the Smithsonian Institution, and when I discuss the deep history of political division in our country, someone in the audience always asserts that we can’t possibly compare past divisions to the present, because our media landscape is doing unprecedented harm, unlike anything seen in the past. I