In 1996, Theresa Powers painted “La Quinceañera" in Echo Park. When she recently returned to restore the painting, she ...

Known for military-themed paintings, Doug Bradford is shifting focus to local landscapes in a new show at The Art Hub at ...

This story appears in the May 2006 issue of National Geographic magazine. I've always believed the best way to know a river is to paddle it, to feel its undercurrents and speed, to take in the ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Eric's career includes extensive work in both public and corporate accounting with ...

Officials in Qinghai Province say rising levels in Ngoring Lake (top), in the Yellow River Basin, prove that environmental efforts are working. But scientists say the effects of climate change—thawing ...

Flooding occurs when a river bursts its banks and overflows onto the surrounding land. There are many factors which can cause a flood - often the natural landscape can influence flooding and human ...

Somewhere between the first whiff of chocolate and the moment you spot those colorful candy bins, Ruth Hunt Candy Company in ...

It is thought that upper-class Victorians in England invented table tennis in the 1880s as a genteel, after-dinner alternative to lawn tennis, using whatever they could find as equipment. A line of ...

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