The story of the piano begins at the dawn of the 18th century, with the visionary Italian instrument maker Bartolomeo Cristofori. Around the year 1700, Cristofori invented the first piano—then
The story of the piano begins at the dawn of the 18th century, with the visionary Italian instrument maker Bartolomeo Cristofori. Around the year 1700, Cristofori invented the first piano—then
Eleuthera Island in the Bahamas is famous for one of the most dramatic natural contrasts in the world — the meeting point of the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea.
Across Asia, whispers of a Korean glaze traveled like myth: a green so pure it rivaled jade, a hue that shifted with the light, a color said to contain the
High in Argentina’s far northwest, beyond the colonial towns and cactus-studded valleys of Jujuy, rises one of South America’s most surreal landscapes: the Hornocal, or Serranía de Hornocal. Known as
High in the mountains of West Java, Indonesia, where cool air replaces the tropical heat of the lowlands, lies a place that seems lifted from the pages of fantasy: Kawah






