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Colonialism

Tainan City, Taiwan

Suehiro Shrine at Hayashi Department Store

On the roof of the oldest department store in Tainan stands a Shinto shrine dating to the 1930s.

Podcast: Sans Souci Palace

Inside the ruins of a palace that once hosted Haiti's only king.

The Podcast Team May 6, 2024

A dingonek has seemingly impenetrable, armadillo-like scales, a powerful tail, and very sharp teeth.

The Man-Eating Dingonek Lurks Beneath East Africa’s Rivers

The 18-foot-long, dog-headed beast-fish didn't seem so unbelievable to Africa's early white colonizers.

April White April 29, 2024

Hong Kong's Colonial Post Boxes

These post boxes from a bygone era have been the source of controversy and debate.

Tarout, Saudi Arabia

Tarout Castle

This former Portuguese defensive fort atop a hill was occupied for thousands of years.

Velha Goa, India

The Convent of St. Dominic's Cross

The only surviving relic of the abandoned Dominican convent.

For years, the triathlon occurred on the lake of a volcano crater, but now takes place on the ocean.

The World’s Most Remote Triathlon Involves Bird Eggs, a Volcano, and Bananas

Tau’a Rapa Nui continues to fight for its place against shifting tides.

Charis McGowan April 18, 2024

Kent, Sierra Leone

Firing Point

On an idyllic island off the coast of Sierra Leone, remnants of the defense of the slave trade and its later abolition.

Each air bubble says so much about life and death on Earth.

Gas Trapped in Antarctic Ice Recorded the Mass Death of 56 Million People

Plagues, war, and genocide were literally frozen in time.

Meg St-Esprit March 14, 2024

No images of Tarenorerer have survived today: However, this portrait shows an Aboriginal woman from southern Tasmania, a contemporary of Tarenorerer, and perhaps the best example we have of what Tarenorerer might've worn and looked like.

The Fierce Female Warrior Who Fought Tasmania’s Colonizers

An Aboriginal woman from northwest Tasmania, Tarenorerer became one of the war's most feared soldiers.

Valorie Castellanos Clark March 13, 2024

Potsdam, Germany

Tip of Mount Kilimanjaro

A stone from Africa's tallest peak is immortalized in a Potsdam palace—but is it actually the mountaintop?

A New and Correct Map of AMERICA (London, 1752).

For Hundreds of Years, People Thought California Was an Island

Dozens of maps show cartography's most persistent mistake.

Frank Jacobs, Big Think February 16, 2024

Hòa Vang, Vietnam

Bà Nà Hills

Founded by French colonists in 1919, this mountain resort has been transformed into one-of-a-kind theme park.

An Arctic tern in flight; the seabirds were a critical source of food for the Beothuk people of Newfoundland, and also likely inspired some of their funerary traditions.

In Newfoundland, a Bird Spirit May Have Guided a Lost Culture's Dead

For centuries, the Beothuk people relied on seabirds to survive—and likely to find their way to the afterlife.

Nicky Nielsen February 7, 2024

Casa da Moeda

The erstwhile Portuguese Era mint house of Goa.

Saint-Leu, Réunion

Musée Stella Matutina

A museum dedicated to the history of sugar cultivation on Réunion island.

La Guez Mère

Head to this repurposed Renault van for fiery sausages and fries.

Scott City, Kansas

El Cuartelejo

The ruins of the northernmost pueblo in the Americas tell the story of a mixing of native cultures.