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From Las Vegas to Tokyo, here are the 10 cities around the world where the biggest moments in combat sports have taken place.

Doing Good, Becoming Better, Following Leaders “I’ve lived my life at the exact half-way point between joy and rage, gratitude and dismay… I would think well of us if I’d never read a history book. Or read a newspaper. Or the comments sections of the Internet… “Is the world more terrible than beautiful? More beautiful than terrible? How can I praise such a world? How can I be

Well, after trying to scare the wits out of everyone with yesterday’s threat of a robot takeover of humanity, I felt today might be a good time for some palate…

By Ken Hissner: Let’s take a look at some of the biggest upsets and controversial endings in the heavyweight division.

By Ken Hissner: It all started with the JOHN “THE BOSTON STRONG BOY” L. SULLIVAN, 38-1-1 (32), coming over from bare knuckles to boxing, defeating American

Complete Mountain Almanac – Complete Mountain Almanac: A generous, life-affirming record from Jessica Dessner that never falls into melodrama

Maya, Mesoamerican Indians occupying a nearly continuous territory in southern Mexico, Guatemala, and northern Belize. In the early 21st century some 30 Mayan languages were spoken by more than five million people, most of whom were bilingual in Spanish. Before the Spanish conquest of Mexico and Central America, the Maya possessed one of the greatest civilizations of the Western Hemisphere (see pre-Columbian civilizations: The earliest Maya civilization of the lowlands). They practiced agricult...

Musicians mixed the old and the new, with vocals from Indigenous American tribes and flute music from the ancient Mayan courts among the year’s album highlights

The Maya civilization is considered one of the oldest and longest-lasting empires. Here's a look at this once magnificent civilization and some of its significant inventions.

On a bright, buggy summer morning, Charles Golden, an anthropologist at Brandeis University, slashed through the knee-high grass of a cattle ranch dee