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Leah Dolan, CNN Remember when Robin Williams threw on a set of rock hard abs? The buttoned-down shirt was from Jean Paul Gaultier’s Spring-Summer 1996 collection, “Pin Up Boys,” and featured an unmistakably chiseled male torso rendered in red and white halftone dots. The print was a “trompe l’oeil,” meaning “trick of the eye.” According

By Lilit Marcus, CNN A collection of treasures from Ernest Shackleton’s Antarctica voyage has been sold at auction in London this week. The timing couldn’t be better, as the wreck of his ship HMS Endurance was finally located in the Weddell Sea earlier this year, 107 years after it sank. The highest priced item (£176,400,

Francesca Street, CNN The summer Tim Thomas was 18, he packed up a rucksack, left his small hometown in the south of England and hopped on a train to France, kicking off a month-long journey through Europe by rail. It was 1972. Thomas was among the first travelers to take advantage of the fledgling European

Oscar Holland, CNN | Jacqui Palumbo, CNN A judge has blocked the sale of a pinafore dress worn by Judy Garland in “The Wizard of Oz” — just one day before it was expected to fetch up to $1.2 million at auction. Missing for decades but rediscovered in shoebox last year, the costume was withdrawn

By Serenitie Wang, CNN When I made up my mind to travel outside of Hong Kong in early March, the city’s daily Covid-19 case count had just passed 50,000, with the highest fatality rate in the world. But I was trying to go to Shanghai, my hometown, for the first time in more than two

Silvia Marchetti, CNN It was nutritious, easy to prepare and great as a snack, especially when sprinkled with poppy flower seeds and served in cubes. The ancient Romans feasted on a delicious honey-crusted cheesecake called Savillum, which is believed to be the real ancestor of modern US-style cheesecake. Instead of Philadelphia soft cheese, there was

Ann Binlot, CNN In much of Western art, Asian women have often appeared as one-dimensional characters — sometimes seen as meek and docile, and at other times hypersexualized and exoticized. But such portrayals fail to show individuals coming from a myriad of cultural backgrounds, their identities rooted in distinctly different countries and histories. “Wonder Women,”

Toyin Owoseje, CNN Colin Cantwell, the visual effects artist behind many of the iconic spacecraft in the original “Star Wars” movie, has died at the age of 90. In an announcement on his Facebook page Sunday, Cantwell’s partner, Sierra Dall, said he died on Saturday at his home in Colorado. “Colin Cantwell passed away peacefully

Leah Dolan, CNN Over the centuries, the tiara, something of a little sister to the omnipotent symbol of the crown, has come to represent more than just a membership to the monarchy. Closely connected to the romantic idea of a princess, it’s a cultural shorthand for youth and femininity — as well as status. From

Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN From steam-powered ships, to mega-liners, the cruise industry has been through quite a transformation over the years. And the market has skyrocketed. Back in 1970, an estimated 500,000 people went on a cruise holiday. That figure had jumped to five million by 1997. So what brought about this sudden surge in interest?

Oscar Holland, CNN In Thurstan Redding’s photography series “Kids of Cosplay,” the mundane and the fantastical collide in unexpected ways. Spiderman stares pensively into the middle distance as he grabs milk from a fridge. A group of Batmen cavort outside a small brick bungalow. X-men’s Mystique lays across the street beneath an orange sky, cigarette