Japan's remote islands offer a unique opportunity to practice meditation in some of the most serene settings. These islands, far from the hustle and bustle of city life, are perfect for those seeking ...

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Neighborhood French café L’Experience Paris, which has a Mercer Island location, welcomes chef Johannes Bonin as its new executive chef. A celebrated figure in the global culinary world, chef Bonin’s ...

Some countries lie on more than one continent. These are called transcontinental countries. A transcontinental country has land that stretches across two or more continents. This can happen due to ...

WASHINGTON — China is developing military technologies, capabilities and procedures at a pace and scale never before seen, said Army Gen. Ronald P. Clark, commander of U.S. Army Pacific, who spoke ...

Oceanography, Vol. 32, No. 1, SPECIAL ISSUE ON SCIENTIFIC OCEAN DRILLING: Looking to the Future (MARCH 2019), pp. 160-174 (15 pages) The association of deep-sea trenches—steeply angled, planar zones ...

WITHIN the recollection of men still alive, Japan has evolved from a small feudal principality voluntarily shut off from the rest of the world to the status of a Great Power whose influence is felt in ...

The “Silent Service,” i.e. the U.S. Navy’s submarine fleet, made many impressive contributions to the American victory over Imperial Japan during WWII, ravaging the latter nation’s merchant marine ...

Twenty-four Essex-class aircraft carriers were built for the U.S. Navy during World War II, and only two did not continue their service during the Cold War. One of those was the USS Franklin (CV-13).