No rose-colored glasses are needed to enjoy these stunning stretches of sand. You may have heard of white and black sand beaches, but what about shores with pink sands? Though ...

Gold Rush charm meets modern-day magic in Grass Valley, California, where towering pines frame Victorian buildings and the ...

Hundreds of thousands of Velella velella, more commonly known as by-the-wind-sailors, are drifting onto the coastline.

See the dude in the top left corner of the top of the painting above (Raphael’s famous Madonna della Rosa ... from the brushstrokes, the color palette, the shading and every aspect of the ...

Notre Dame Cathedral burned on April 15, 2019, destroying the roof and doing significant structural damage to the famous cathedral ... to determine what the colors actually would have looked ...

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a California Democrat whose district includes the island, questioned the feasibility of reopening the prison after so many years. “It is now a very popular ...

There's a reason Hollywood comes calling to Marigot Bay (scenes from the original "Doctor Doolittle," starring Rex Harrison and "Firepower," starring Sophia Loren, were shot here). It's because ...

Secretariat, the greatest racehorse in history, burst onto the worldwide scene by winning the 1973 Kentucky Derby in a world record time of 1 minute, 59.4 seconds, a mark that stands 50 years later.

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In its purest form, the mineral corundum is colorless. Trace elements that become part of the mineral’s crystal structure cause variations in its color. Chromium is the trace element that causes ...