Eighty-Nine Films: Italian Cinema in 1943, and the Year the Industry Broke
Eighty-nine Italian films are listed for 1943, and almost all of them reached cinemas before the armistice of 8 September. What happened afterwards belongs…
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UNESCO World Heritage Sites Near Delos: The Uninhabited Birthplace of Apollo, the Terrace of Lions and Hellenistic Mosaic Floors in a 30,000-Person Slave Market Island
Delos, an uninhabited 5 km² island in the Greek Cyclades, preserves both the ancient sanctuary of Apollo — mythological birthplace of the god —…
September 2026Ninety-Six Films: Italian Cinema in 1942, and Where It Was Made
Ninety-six Italian films were distributed in 1942, against forty-five in 1938: the peak of a production boom that began when the American studios walked…
September 2026
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UNESCO World Heritage Sites Near Hiraizumi: The 1124 CE Golden Hall Entirely Covered in Gold Leaf, Bashō’s Elegy and Japan’s Buddhist Pure Land on Earth
Hiraizumi's 12th-century Buddhist temples and Pure Land gardens represent the brief, brilliant civilisation built by the Northern Fujiwara clan in the remote Tōhoku region…
September 2026Matmata: the Houses That Were Dug, Not Built
A troglodyte courtyard at Matmata, southern Tunisia. Photo: Damien Slattery, photographed by Colin Kenworthy — CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. From the road…
September 2026
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UNESCO World Heritage Sites Near the Valley of Flowers: 500 Himalayan Plant Species, the Sacred Nanda Devi Peak and the British Botanist Who Died Photographing Wildflowers in 1975
The Nanda Devi and Valley of Flowers National Parks, a UNESCO site in the Indian Himalaya, combine the permanently closed wilderness sanctuary around Nanda…
September 2026
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UNESCO World Heritage Sites Near the Ennedi Massif: The Saharan Crocodiles of Guelta d’Archei, 120-Metre Natural Arches and Rock Art Showing Hippos in the Desert (Chad)
The Ennedi Massif in northeastern Chad, a UNESCO mixed site inscribed in 2016, preserves Carboniferous sandstone eroded into vast gorge systems and natural arches,…
September 2026
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UNESCO World Heritage Sites Near the Rock Islands: Palau’s 445 Mushroom-Shaped Islands, Jellyfish Lake and the Pacific Marine Biodiversity Hotspot
The Rock Islands Southern Lagoon, a UNESCO mixed site in the Republic of Palau, encompasses 445 limestone islands with mushroom-shaped profiles, over 385 coral…
September 2026
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UNESCO World Heritage Sites Near Vladimir and Suzdal: 566 Carved Bas-Reliefs on St Dmitry Cathedral, the Church on the Nerl and Russia’s White Stone Architecture Before the Mongols
The White Monuments of Vladimir and Suzdal, UNESCO-inscribed in 1992, preserve the 12th–13th century limestone architecture of the Vladimir-Suzdal principality — the dominant Russian…
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