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By Corinne Whiting, CNN Pittsburgh (CNN) — Pittsburghers seem to enjoy that their hilly, welcoming city, which sits at the junction of three rivers in Southwestern Pennsylvania, surprises most who arrive. It seems like a badge of honor for those here to dispel long-gone stereotypes “the Steel City” held, its industrial prowess once evidenced by

By Pavlo Fedykovych, CNN (CNN) — Greek legends are typically full of the incredible — winged white stallions, bull-headed minotaurs, Trojan horses and vengeful gods. While ancient writer Palaephatus later tried to bust some of these extraordinary myths, when it came to strange legends about what is now Olympos in modern Turkey, he had no

By Leah Dolan, CNN London (CNN) — Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s 19th century painting, “The Beloved,” a bejeweled Black child offers a bouquet of roses to the pale, red-headed bride at the picture’s center. The child is tucked away in the bottom left-hand corner, but in the mind of curator and art historian Alayo Akinkugbe, his

By Precious Adesina, CNN London (CNN) — At Frieze London this year, three large artworks by the artist Nengi Omuku were hung away from the walls so viewers could walk around them. With each work, one side offered a vibrant nature-filled painting. The other presented strips of sanyan, a thick traditional Nigerian fabric that Omuku

By Blane Bachelor, CNN (CNN) — Like many hotels, Red Cliffs Lodge, in the outskirts of Moab, Utah, provides guests with complimentary items like maps, in-room toiletries and, upon request, dental kits stocked with oft-forgotten toothbrushes and toothpaste. But in the fall of 2023, the property began lending some guests a decidedly different kind of

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — A curator at a museum in New York City has discovered a previously unknown waltz written by Frédéric Chopin, the first time that a new piece of work by the Polish composer has been found in nearly 100 years. The waltz, written on a small manuscript measuring about 4

By Alexandra Willingham, CNN (CNN) — If Halloween had a fashion handbook, the party scene from the 2004 classic “Mean Girls” would take up a whole chapter. Twenty years have passed since the original Plastics stomped their kitten heels into movie history, but the (now, rather outdated) observation Lindsay Lohan’s outcast-turned-”it girl” Cady Heron makes

By Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — A “staggering array” of witches’ marks have been discovered on the walls of a Tudor property in England. The carvings, which are formally known as apotropaic marks, were at the time believed to provide ritual protection against evil. News of the discovery, aptly timed to coincide with Halloween, was

By Helen Regan and Genta Takeda, CNN (CNN) — November is just a few days away, but Japan’s iconic Mount Fuji remains snowless, marking the latest date without a snowcap since records began 130 years ago. The peaks of Japan’s highest mountain are usually dusted in snow by early October, but as of Tuesday the

By Maggie Hiufu Wong, Jane Sit and Kelly Wu, CNN (CNN) — Simon Sio grew up in humble surroundings in the heart of Macao, living in an old building directly across from what was then the city’s grandest accommodation, Hotel Central. Opened in 1928, it became a prestigious gathering place for celebrities and diplomats in