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Family was an essential part of Inca societal structures, and bonds within families were strong even outside the nuclear family structure. The Inca name for the broad family was “ayllu” and were essentially one group comprised of many smaller…

As the Inca Empire grew its boundaries well throughout the Andes region, they surmounted large sums of wealth. The Incas collected large deposits of gold, created large food storages, and offered valuable gifts to gods during religious ceremonies.…

Luigi Russolo created the intonarumori between 1913 and 1921 amidst the rise of Futurism in Italy (“The Original Noise Artist”). These are a series of “boxes of various colors and sizes, each with an impressive horn protruding from its front”…

The building project that garnered international attention and became an icon of Kroll’s design philosophy of participatory architecture, the Medical Facility’s student complex at the Catholic University of Louvain stands out as a unique figure…

The gorgeous ruins of Machu Picchu, sitting high above the world on a ridge in the Andes Mountains, serves as a lasting reminder from the Inca that they were here. Its creation has been dated to have been in the mid-15th century AD, placing its…

The world of Pokémon was created by Satoshi Tajiri for Nintendo, and started as video games on the Nintendo Game Boy system. Since then, the characters have been adapted to merchandise such as collectible trading cards, action figures, anime…

This is an online copy of the WSB Videotape of a news broadcast that aired in 1993. This news coverage highlights that Koresh failed to keep his promise to leave the compound after airing a message, stating that God told him to wait. The broadcast…

Information from Pacific High School, an experimental school in Santa Cruz California, 1971.

To facilitate communication throughout their expansive empire, the Inca built over 40,000 kilometers of roads and bridges winding throughout the Andes. This highway system, the Qhapaq Ñan, was primarily not for use by common citizens, and citizens…