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Good News in History, May 4
198 years ago today, Frederic Edwin Church, one of the foremost painters in the American landscape movement known as the Hudson River School, was...
Archaeologists May Have Found the Villa Where the Roman Emperor Augustus Died
Excavations of a Roman villa dating to the start of the Imperial era show it may belong to the greatest of all the Roman...
Solar Balconies Are Booming in Germany and You Can Plug in and Install Them Yourself
Solar panels are finding their way onto all sorts of surprising surfaces, and now Central Europeans are beginning to line their balcony rails with...
Good News in History, April 25
70 years ago today, Bell Labs finished the first functional solar cell, allowing for a panel of metal and glass to refract light and...
The Car Fueled Entirely by the Sun Takes Huge Step Towards Production
One of the most hotly anticipated concept cars in recent history, the Aptera solar-powered car took a large step towards reality recently as the...
Good News in History, April 14
41 years ago today, EMI released David Bowie's 15th studio album Let's Dance. The album became Bowie's greatest commercial success, with 11 million albums sold and...
A Teacher Promised His 1978 Class an Eclipse Party in 50 Years–And He Just Hosted It
The year was 1978: Prime Minister Aldo Moro had been kidnapped in Italy, the US Senatorial proceedings were broadcast on the radio for the...
Greek Archaeologists Use The Iliad as a Map to Find 10 Ancient Shipwrecks
Covering almost 5,000 years of history, a team of maritime archaeologists from Greece have located a series of shipwrecks off the coast of the...
Good News in History, March 21
180 years ago today, the Bab began teaching the Baháʼí faith, marking forever both the Holy Day and Day 1, or New Year's Day...
High-Speed Railway Progresses Towards a 200-mph Train Line From Dallas to Houston
High-speed rail is a standard form of transport in places like Germany, France, Italy, China, Japan, and Switzerland, but with any luck at all,...
Good News in History, March 18
100 years ago today, the classic silent film The Thief of Baghdad, written by and starring Douglas Fairbanks, debuted in cinemas. Freely adapted from...
Good News in History, March 17
124 years ago today, Isadora Duncan, the first modern dancer, made her debut as a solo interpretive dancer in London to crowds who marveled...
Good News in History, March 13
On this day last year, worldwide unit sales of vinyl records climbed above CDs for the first time since 1987, completing the only low-tech...
Your Horoscope for the Week – ‘Free Will Astrology’ From Rob Brezsny
Our partner Rob Brezsny, who has a new book out, Astrology Is Real: Revelations from My Life as an Oracle, provides his weekly wisdom to...
Good News in History, March 9
50 years ago today, Hiroo Onoda, the Japanese infantryman holdout finally surrendered 29 years after the end of World War II. Operating out of...
Reborn from the Dust, Giant Statue of Atlas Put Back Together to Guard Sicily’s Valley of the Temples
A 20-year restoration project on the island of Sicily has led to the reconstruction of a 26-foot (8-meter) tall statue of Atlas, the god...
1,000-Year-old Scientific Instrument Was Passed Between Muslims and Jews, Historic Neighbors for Centuries
Scientists say an 11th-century Islamic astrolabe, bearing both Arabic and Hebrew inscriptions, is one of the oldest examples ever discovered, and one of only...
Good News in History, March 5
50 years ago today, a very special performance was held at Berkeley University to witness the singing of the Hymn to Nikkal. It had...
Good News in History, March 4
1,172 years ago today, a Duke named Trpimir I wrote in a charter in the Latin language that he was Duke of the Croats...
Kyoto Passes Law to Protect Traditional Geisha From the Obnoxious Tourist ‘Paparazzi’
GNN has long been an employer of travelers, and is quick to point out positive developments in tourism—which includes when malbehaved tourists are 'corrected'...