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A teenage shah, and part-time poet, founded modern IranIsmail was no older than fourteen when he was crowned shah in Tabriz, and within a decade he ruled all of Iran, the first native dynasty to unify it since the Arab conquest some e…
A teenage superheroine struggles to balance saving the world with being a normal girl.Created by Rob Renzetti, this animated series follows XJ-9, a sophisticated robot girl who prefers the name Jenny Wakeman. While she is Earth's primary defender against the roboti…
A teenage vampire navigates the high-stakes world of performing arts and secret identitiesVee Hauntley is a 13-year-old vampire trading Transylvania for a human boarding school. While chasing her musical dreams, she must hide her supernatural nature from the legendary …
A teenage vision earned Ibn Arabi an interview with AverroesAs a boy at the Seville court, Ibn Arabi preferred army-camp games to books. Then a teenage vision changed him so visibly that his father told the philosopher Averroes, who asked …
A teenager becomes a real-life video game hero to battle a secret organization.In the science fiction series Aaron Stone, sixteen-year-old Charlie Landers is recruited to embody his world-renowned video game avatar. Tasked with protecting the world, he faces…
A teenager discovers his father is a legendary creature hiding from a greedy corporation.When Adam Harrison begins experiencing rapid hair growth and enhanced senses, he uncovers a family secret: his long-lost father is Bigfoot. This revelation pulls the teen into a h…
A teenager fights to restore her father's honor through the art of Japanese storytelling.In the world of rakugo, a lone performer brings multiple characters to life using only subtle gestures and vocal shifts. When Akane Osaki's father is expelled from his profession,…
A teenager fought the Dutch government to sail solo around the world aloneLaura Dekker spent her childhood at sea, but her dream of a solo circumnavigation triggered a fierce legal battle. Dutch authorities attempted to block her voyage, citing safety c…
A teenager on a ship to England worked out how heavy dead stars can getSailing to Cambridge in 1930, a young Indian graduate spent the voyage adding relativity to the physics of collapsed stars. The upshot, now called the Chandrasekhar limit, says no…
A teenager's beach walk became bossa nova's global signatureGarota de Ipanema—The Girl from Ipanema—was written in 1962 by Antônio Carlos Jobim with Portuguese words by Vinícius de Moraes and later English lyrics by Norman Gimbel. The Stan…
A teenager's dream of becoming a drag queen sparks a powerful community transformationInspired by a real-life documentary, this stage musical follows sixteen-year-old Jamie New as he navigates bullying and family rejection to embrace his identity. Beyond the glitte…
A teenager's elaborate scheme to fix her mother's love life backfires in this romantic comedy.In the 2005 film The Perfect Man, a teenage girl tired of moving every time her mother suffers a heartbreak decides to intervene. She creates a fictitious secret admirer for her m…
A teenager's quest for autographs uncovered a forgotten chapter of baseball historyWhat began as a simple hobby for Cam Perron transformed into a mission to restore dignity to the Negro leagues. By reaching out to veteran players through their baseball cards, he…
A Tehran nobleman nicknamed Father of the Poor founded a worldwide faithBorn into Persian aristocracy in 1817, Baha'u'llah turned down a government post, gave his wealth to charity, and backed a banned movement. Chained in an underground Tehran dungeo…
A televised execution in 1994 signaled the collapse of South Africa's apartheid-era bantustan system.When the Bophuthatswana government faced a massive civil service strike in 1994, it invited right-wing Afrikaner militias to restore order. The plan backfired spectacularly. The l…
A television drama designed to bypass historical stereotypesWhile many portrayals of Northern Ireland are defined by the Troubles, Hope Street deliberately looks elsewhere. Created to showcase local resilience and warmth, this crime drama …
A television milestone: the first major character with Down syndromeBefore the 1990s, television rarely reflected the full spectrum of human experience. Life Goes On broke that mold by centering on a suburban family where one child lived with Down…
A tell is not just a hill, but a layered history of human civilization.Across the Near East and parts of Europe, thousands of artificial mounds rise from the landscape. These are tells—stratified piles of debris, mudbrick, and sediment created by gen…
A temple dance renamed in 1932 still shapes classical IndiaBritish officials banned Sadiraattam in 1910. Protest and stage work carried it beyond Tamil temples, and in 1932 reformers renamed it Bharatanatyam. The form still rests on bent …
A temporary city suspended above the Metropolitan Museum of ArtExperience the architectural ambition of Tomás Saraceno's Cloud City. This card explores the context of the installation that transformed the Met's roof into a site of suspended, …
A temporary organ may carry an ancient viral gene signatureThe placenta is a transient organ mediating exchange between mother and offspring, evolved repeatedly—including multiple times in fish and in some reptiles—and crucial to placenta…
A ten-cent nitrate tax cost Bolivia its coastlineFrom 1879 to 1884 Chile fought a Bolivian–Peruvian alliance for Atacama coastal claims rich in nitrates. A Bolivian tax hike on the Chilean CSFA mining firm violated the 1874 boun…
A ten-day trip to Weimar Berlin gave Isherwood Sally Bowles and his life's subjectIn March 1929 Christopher Isherwood joined W. H. Auden in Berlin, drawn by the city's sexual freedom. The short visit changed everything. He moved there that November, filled diar…
A ten-metre tyrannosaur relative wore feathers twenty centimetres longYutyrannus, a cousin of Tyrannosaurus from early Cretaceous China, is the largest dinosaur known with direct fossil evidence of feathers. Its adult was perhaps 10 metres long and …
A ten-minute track that transformed Lady Gaga's life and the pop landscapeWritten in just ten minutes while the artist was nursing a hangover, 'Just Dance' was a sleeper hit that eventually defined an era. What began as a risky gamble for a struggling a…
A ten-week war handed America an overseas empireFrom 21 April to 13 August 1898 the United States fought Spain after the USS Maine blew up in Havana Harbor on 15 February. The December Treaty of Paris transferred Puerto Rico, G…
A ten-year quest is merely a fraction of an elf's lifeAfter defeating the Demon King, an elven mage named Frieren returns to find her human companions aged and dying. This is not a story about the battle to save the world, but the qu…
A Tennessee death row inmate executed despite claims of innocence and DNA evidenceOscar Franklin Smith was scheduled for execution multiple times before his death in 2025. Despite presenting new DNA evidence and claiming the justice system was broken, he was ul…
A Tennessee mother finds her footing after thirty-three years of marriage in LeanneWhen a long-term marriage ends abruptly, life in Knoxville takes an unexpected turn. The sitcom Leanne, created by Leanne Morgan, Chuck Lorre, and Susan McMartin, follows a woman …
A Tennessee town fought a federal court battle to rename itself after a songIn 2014, a small Tennessee community officially rebranded as Rocky Top, hoping to leverage the fame of a classic song for economic development. The decision sparked a legal confro…
A tennis star's social media post triggered a global disappearance and censorship crisisIn November 2021, Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai posted a bombshell accusation on Weibo. Within 30 minutes, the post and her name were scrubbed from the Chinese internet. Her su…
A tense 911 thriller filmed entirely from a van during a global pandemicIn this 2021 remake of a Danish thriller, a troubled police officer working the night shift attempts to rescue an abducted woman. The production, directed by Antoine Fuqua and sta…- A tentacled teacher threatens to destroy Earth unless his students can assassinate him first.In the hit manga Assassination Classroom, a mysterious creature obliterates most of the Moon and demands to teach a class of academic outcasts. He offers the Japanese government a…
A tenth-century caliph asked for a pen that would not stainIn 953, the Fatimid caliph of Egypt, al-Mu'izz, demanded a pen that would not dirty his hands or clothes. His craftsmen delivered one that stored ink inside and fed it to the nib,…
A tenth-century court lady accidentally invented the world's first blog with her private musings.Sei Shōnagon, a court lady in Heian-period Japan, wrote The Pillow Book for her own eyes only. When a guest discovered her private notes on a cushion, they were snatched away, eve…
A tenth-century Indonesian fleet sailed about 7,000 kilometres to raid East AfricaIn 945 and 946 AD, seafarers from the island kingdoms of what is now Indonesia, either Malays of Srivijaya or Javanese of Mataram, sent around a thousand boats across the Indian O…
A terminal diagnosis forces a family to embrace an unlikely, chaotic love storyIn the Australian drama Babyteeth, sixteen-year-old Milla finds an unexpected connection with a drug-addicted drifter named Moses. As Milla faces a recurrence of cancer, her paren…
A terminal diagnosis forces a father to confront his moral compromises in BarcelonaAlejandro González Iñárritu’s 2010 drama Biutiful follows Uxbal, a man navigating the criminal underworld of Barcelona while dying of prostate cancer. As he struggles to secure hi…
A terminal diagnosis leads to a lavish European escape in this charming romantic comedyWhen a shy department store clerk is told she has weeks to live, she liquidates her savings for a luxury vacation. This 2006 film, starring Queen Latifah, explores how a brush wit…
A terminal diagnosis triggers a chaotic life pivot in the comedy-drama The ProfessorWhen a New England literature professor receives a stage 4 lung cancer diagnosis, he abandons his conventional life for a path of reckless abandon. The 2018 film, starring Johnny …- A terminal inspired by ancient ruins and traditional artHow does a modern airport honor 5th-century history? In Bihar, the new Jay Prakash Narayan Airport blends high-tech biometric entry with the aesthetics of Nalanda University. It i…
A terminal office worker finds a second chance building a thriving fantasy societyAfter dying from exhaustion, a Japanese salaryman is granted a divine do-over in a mysterious forest. Armed with a magical, shape-shifting farming implement, he transforms a desol…
A terrifying nightmare inspired the classic tale of Jekyll and Hyde in 1885Robert Louis Stevenson was so deeply unsettled by a dream in the autumn of 1885 that he scolded his wife for waking him. He believed he was witnessing a fine bogey tale, which he …
A territorial rivalry plays out in the Bahama StraitsExplore the complex social dynamics of the Caribbean's aquatic inhabitants. This footage captures the tension between Bottlenose and Spotted dolphins in the shallow waters of the …
A territory won by a pig and a Kaiser's decreeThe San Juan Islands weren't always a peaceful Washington getaway. They were once the center of a tense maritime standoff between the U.S. and Great Britain, culminating in a biza…
A test that always says positive catches every case and is uselessImagine a bogus kit that reads positive for everyone. It never misses a sick person, so its sensitivity is a perfect 100 percent. It also flags every healthy person. That thought …
A Teutonic fief became the engine of German unityPrussia began not as a kingdom but as a secularized remnant of crusader lands. In 1525 the Teutonic Order's Prussian territory became a Lutheran duchy under Hohenzollern rule; by …
A Texas astronaut connects with his hometown from the International Space StationWatch Commander Mike Fossum bridge the gap between Earth and orbit. This video captures a rare moment of local connection as a native of McAllen, Texas, discusses his research and…- A Texas coastal city built on cattle, storms, and the world's largest blue crab.Rockport, Texas, is a resilient coastal community defined by its deep-water access and maritime heritage. From its origins as a nineteenth-century cattle-shipping hub to its moder…
A Texas coastal hub defined by its military, energy, and civil rights historyCorpus Christi is more than a port city on the Gulf of Mexico. It is a place where military aviation meets deep-water commerce, and where landmark legal battles reshaped American …
A Texas county once defined by a massive lumber mill now hides its industrial past.Houston County, Texas, was the first county established by the Republic of Texas in 1837. By the early 20th century, it hosted a colossal timber operation that transformed the lan…
A Texas housewife's quiet life unravels into a notorious 1980s murder caseIn the late 1970s, Candy Montgomery appeared to be the quintessential suburban housewife in Wylie, Texas. Yet, an extramarital affair with a fellow churchgoer spiraled into a leth…- A Texas preacher hunts for God in this dark, supernatural comic book epicCreated by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon, Preacher follows a small-town clergyman possessed by a powerful entity. Alongside an Irish vampire and his former girlfriend, he traverses…
- A Texas residential project faces intense political scrutiny over claims of religious exclusivityInitiated by the East Plano Islamic Center, the EPIC City development in Texas sparked a firestorm of controversy. Despite developers insisting the project is an inclusive neighbo…
A Texas town built on cotton, rail lines, and a historic ranching legacyLittlefield, Texas, emerged from the vast acreage of the Yellow House Ranch to become a hub for agriculture and transit. While known for its cotton-growing heritage and denim prod…
A Texas town defined by its prisons, spurs, and a unique industrial historyGatesville, Texas, is a city where correctional facilities house over half the population and the local economy relies heavily on state institutions and military support. Beyond i…
A Texas town shares its name with a 1991 nuclear test explosionFloydada, Texas, is a rural community on the High Plains known as the Pumpkin Capital of Texas. While it is a quiet agricultural hub, its name was unexpectedly chosen as the code …- A Texas town's location was chosen to escape the floods of Little Cypress CreekFounded in 1846, Gilmer, Texas, sits on the historic Old Cherokee Trace. While the town is now known for its annual sweet potato festival, its original site was abandoned by early…
A Texas university just reclaimed its historic name after a century of evolutionFounded in 1889 as a small teachers' college, this institution has transformed from a local training ground into a public research university. After decades of shifting identities…- A Texas university looks like Bhutan because of one National Geographic issueAfter a fire destroyed a young Texas mining school in 1916, the dean's wife remembered photographs of Bhutanese monastery fortresses she had seen in National Geographic. The rugge…