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Saynday Tales
Article by Joshua J. Mark

Saynday Tales

Saynday tales are popular legends of the Kiowa nation featuring the trickster figure Saynday who, like other Native American tricksters, sometimes appears as a hero, sometimes as a villain, and other times as a clownish buffoon. Two of the...
Fox Statue, Fushimi Inari Shrine
Image by James Blake Wiener

Fox Statue, Fushimi Inari Shrine

The Fushimi Inari Shrine near Kyoto (Heiankyo) is the largest and most important shrine dedicated to Inari, the Shinto god of rice and prosperity. It is famous for the large number of red gates (torii) at the site. The shrine was founded...
Fox Statue at Fushimi Inari Shrine
Image by James Blake Wiener

Fox Statue at Fushimi Inari Shrine

The Fushimi Inari Shrine near Kyoto (Heiankyo), Japan is the largest and most important shrine dedicated to Inari, the Shinto god of rice and prosperity. It is famous for the large number of red gates (torii) at the site. The shrine was founded...
Göbekli Tepe, Pillar with Sculpture of a Fox
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Göbekli Tepe, Pillar with Sculpture of a Fox

Göbekli Tepe is a c. 12,000-year-old archaeological site in Anatolia, Turkey. One characteristic feature of the site is the abundance of monumental stone pillars, often arranged in a circle and elaborately decorated in many cases. This...
North American Red Fox
Image by Lvaughn7

North American Red Fox

North American red fox photographed in the Rocky Mountains, Colorado, USA by Lvaughn7 in 2015.
Kitsunebi (Fox Fire)
Image by Brooklyn Museum

Kitsunebi (Fox Fire)

Utagawa Hiroshige: New Year's Eve Foxfires at the Changing Tree, Oji No. 118 from One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, 9th month of 1857. Woodblock print Brooklyn Museum
The Origins of British Pub Names
Article by Mark Cartwright

The Origins of British Pub Names

Pubs remain a prominent feature of the rural and urban landscapes of Britain, but their names very often date back to medieval times. Red lions, white horses, and colourful characters peer from pub signs as landlords choose names to represent...
Found In the Grass
Article by Joshua J. Mark

Found In the Grass

Found In the Grass is a legend of the Algonquian-speaking nations of the Plains Indians and one of the most famous. The story is told in many different versions, but the best-known comes from the Cheyenne and features the child hero Mok-so-is...
How Rommel became the Desert Fox | Operation Sonnenblume
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How Rommel became the Desert Fox | Operation Sonnenblume

In February 1941, Erwin Rommel arrived in Libya to save an Italian army in disarray. But instead of following orders to defend his position, Rommel attacked. Leading from the front, he pushed the understrength British and Commonwealth forces...
Lost Civilisations of Anatolia: Göbekli Tepe
Article by Nicholas Kropacek

Lost Civilisations of Anatolia: Göbekli Tepe

Göbekli Tepe is the world's oldest example of monumental architecture; a 'temple' built at the end of the last Ice Age, 12,000 years ago. It was discovered in 1995 CE when, just a short distance from the city of Şanliurfa in Southeast Turkey...
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