by Lindsay Shapka in Travel, History, culture, Discovey
After taking 130 spiraling steps 20 meters below the streets of Paris, I found myself on the verge of my very first panic attack.
I had never felt the fear of claustrophobia before, but I was pretty sure that it was the reason why I couldn’t catch my breath.
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If I were to ask you to close your eyes and picture the Greek Islands, what would you see?
White sand? Feta cheese? Brad Pitt dressed as Achilles?
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In 1975, the Khmer Rouge — one of the most lethal regimes of the 20th century — took over Cambodia.
Led by Pol Pot, the regime forced the Cambodian people to work on collective farms and labor projects, as a form of agrarian communism. Sympathetic to the peasants, they killed all who they deemed to be “New People,” or those who lived in the city at the time of their take over.
Read Moreby Lindsay Shapka in Book List, culture, History, Travel, Discovey
In most of the bookstores I walk into, the art history section is pretty lean. There are a lot of large-scale glossy photo books with the standard famous works of art in them, but not much that is critical, new, or honest.
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After passing through the massive, white porticoed main entrance of the British Museum, you will find yourself standing in the Great Court.
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