Isotope composition within fish tails found in London archaeological digs shows that the city began importing cod from northern Scandinavia some 800 years ago. Cynthia Graber reports
WATCH: Daydreaming of the Serengeti Most of us are chained to our desks day in and day out — and sometimes we just need a little armchair safari. Thankfully, brothers Darrell and Oliver Hartman, who recently came back from the Lamai Triangle, a lush zone that borders Kenya, brought back this video. It has us dreaming of Africa. Again.
Played out every half-hour during Arlington National Cemetery’s summer schedule and every hour the rest of the year, the changing of the guard at the Tomb of the Unknowns typically produces a hushed awe from onlookers as they watch the sentinels perform their duties with meticulous exactness. Every footstep, hand placement and eye movement is measured.
Rideshare services Uber and Lyft learn from regulators that they must comply with regulations or stop helping their customers. The two companies have effectively rejected regulators' demands.
In an article that went viral in 1989, Francis Fukuyama advanced the notion that with the death of communism history had come to an end in the sense that liberalism — democracy and market capitalism — had triumphed as an ideology. Fukuyama will be joined by other scholars to examine this proposition in the light of experience during the subsequent quarter century.
Here, five amazing things to eat at Hong Kong International Airport.
This week in tennis news brought us Rafael Nadal’s birthday celebration, Murray’s soccer dream team and Gulbis’ suspect eating habits. Plus, watch video of Serena Williams’ now-infamous wedding crashing episode in Miami and see her latest eye-popping Instagram photos.
Недавний опрос выявил, что число россиян, желающих эмигрировать, снижается. Как отвечают на этот вопрос прохожие в Москве?
On WSJ Café, Stefanie Cohen talks about class and race with LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Sophie Okonedo and Anika Noni Rose from the cast of "Raisin in the Sun". Photo: raisinbroadway.com
The "Raisin in the Sun" cast joins WSJ Café to talk about their Tony nominations and Denzel Washington's role in the play. Photo: raisinbroadway.com
The Ladies of "Raisin in the Sun" on WSJ Café talk Tonys, Lorraine Hansberry, and stage fights. Photo: raisinbroadway.com
Summertime means beautiful bursts of vivid clematis Or choose C. jackmanii, which sports 3- to 4-inch velvety purple, open-faced blooms. Lavender flowers are large (4 to 5 inches) and feature a pronounced corona of inner tepals, giving the blooms a distinctive identity. Flowers on this native North American vine are usually a rose-pink color with yellow flared tips and are followed by long-lasting silvery seed heads. Cultivation Clematis generally like fertile, well-drained soil and regular water to get them established. Читать дальше...
It’s four inches of spicy, salted, processed meat, but is there actually beef inside the tiny stick? Well, that depends on your definition of meat.
Watch bakers make the city's signature sourdough bread through a 30-foot observation window while taking in historic and interactive exhibits that shed light on the intertwined past of sourdough and the city. Classes cover bread-making techniques and tips for focaccia, German white bread, bagels, sourdough and other styles. With little decoration beyond the colorful breads baked that morning, and a simple menu based on a wood-burning oven, this spot near Los Angeles is the lovechild of a bakery and a restaurant. Читать дальше...
Should small crimes turn into bigger crimes for those unable to pay the fines or fees?
