Towns for romantics, foodies, and history buffs
|  | Thursday, June 23, 2022 | | | | |
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| | Who needs big city hustle and bustle on vacation? We’ve found six historic villages in Europe where you can climb castles, linger over coffee, and stare at a river or a verdant valley. And seven others known for the Brontë sisters, Monet’s lily pads, or as Camus’s resting place.
“Forgotten by developers and never annexed into suburbs, many of these places seem suspended in a past age,” Raphael Kadushin writes for Nat Geo.
Catch our historic picks here. (Pictured above, Italy’s San Gimignano; below, France’s Château de Chambord.) And see our selections for romantics and outdoor adventurers.
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| | Showing off: The Vogelkop superb bird of paradise puts on quite a show. Its fake blue eyespots and bright breast shield are set against a black cape, photographer and Nat Geo Explorer Tim Laman tells us from West Papua, Indonesia. More than 677,000 people have “liked” Laman’s series of bird photographs on our Instagram page. Read more here about these extraordinary creatures. | | | |
 | | PHOTOGRAPH BY JINGYU LIN | | How one law changed lives: One Kari played college lacrosse in the 1980s; another Kari currently plays at the same school for the same coach. College sports have radically evolved during that time, but there’s one constant: Title IX of the Higher Education Act, enacted 50 years ago today, ensures that no person is excluded from university programs “on the basis of sex.” Listen to Overheard podcast host Amy Briggs ask Kari Briggs Novak and Kari Buonnano (pictured above with Princeton coach Christine A. Sailer) how Title IX has affected them.
Related: The fight for gender equality in schools
Related: How the gap between boys and girls in school athletics has narrowed
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| | City life: Raccoons have gotten smarter, and it’s partly our fault. Garbage cans fit for a buffet and window bars that serve as ladders make life easier for citified animals (pictured above, a mother raccoon and her offspring atop a home in San Francisco). It isn’t just raccoons that are settling in: Black bears, coyotes, and other mammals are adapting to city life in shockingly savvy ways, Nat Geo reports. | | | |
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