This year’s Imaginarium Festival theme is Winter Utopia, featuring ice kingdoms and fairytale landscapes alongside infinity mirror rooms, interactive exhibits, carnival games and an ice skating rink.
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Marcus Smith,
Sacbee.com,
7 Nov. 2025
The history of premodern Southeast Asia, where small kingdoms competed and traded without coming under the dominion of China or India, suggests a different model.
No more communism, or fascism; no more theocracy, or monarchies.
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Richard Stengel,
Time,
1 Oct. 2025
America’s most steadfast allies in this bit of the 21st century are the Gulf monarchies, true and unapologetic kingdoms big on pomp and light on participation.
Sophie, the Duchess of Edinburgh, has similarly dropped into deep curtsies when meeting other sovereigns on trips abroad.
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Janine Henni,
PEOPLE,
17 Oct. 2025
Wall Street, institutions and even sovereigns are migrating infrastructure onto the blockchain and ETH is well positioned to capture value through various channels.
But research increasingly shows that the aftereffects of disasters last longer, and extend to more domains of our lives, than official death tolls can capture.
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Clayton Dalton,
New Yorker,
11 Nov. 2025
Researchers have found a winner's curse in many other domains.
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