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Irish Highwayman "Captain" Gallagher tormented British landowners in the late 1700s and early 1800s in County Mayo (Credit: Travelpix Ltd/Getty Images)

Culture & Identity

The legend of Ireland’s ‘Highwaymen’

By Ronan O'Connell

One year before the Titanic sank, Australia's SS Yongala hit a cyclone and ran aground off the coast of Townsville, killing everyone on board (Credit: State Library of Victoria)

Discovery

A shipwreck undiscovered for 47 years

By Craig Tansley

For nine months in 1994, the author hauled around a battery-powered laptop to file the world's first travel blog posts from around the world (Credit: Jeff Greenwald)

Culture & Identity

Why doesn't the US value the elderly?

By Paul Theroux

In 1959, Castro and his comrades were idolised by American women as young, sexy liberators (Credit: Hulton/Archive Staff/Getty Images)

Culture & Identity

Fidel Castro’s love affair with NYC

By Tony Perrottet

A team of alpine archaeologists hikes towards base camp in the Teton Range, Wyoming (Credit: Matt Stirn)

Discovery

A race to rescue frozen artefacts

By Matt Stirn

Eating foods may evoke powerful emotional memories that may live deep within your subconscious (Credit: Getty Images/lucky_spark)

Travel

The strong link between food and memory

By Susanna Zaraysky

Gary Rizzo, Allison’s partner, takes a moment for himself at the Cliffs of Moher the day before scattering Allison’s ashes in the same location (Credit: Kaylin Frank)

Adventure & Experience

Ireland’s mystical healing powers

By Lauren DePino

Author James Clark travelled through the Strait of Magellan nearly 500 years after the sea route’s discovery (Credit: James Clark)

Adventure & Experience

Is this the world’s most dangerous sea?

By James Clark

Pico Iyer: “Autumn is the season when everything falls away” (Credit: Pascal Mannaerts/Alamy)

Adventure & Experience

Is this the world’s last paradise?

By Andrew Evans

Writer Stacey McKenna travelled to Québec in hopes of practicing the French language (Credit: Ken Gillespie Photography/Alamy)

Adventure & Experience

How I fell in love with French

By Stacey McKenna

Writer Marcia DeSanctis was on assignment in Botswana when she received devastating news from home (Credit: Felix Odell)

Adventure & Experience

A deadly predator that brought solace

By Marcia DeSanctis

More than 60 years after her grandmother, Jean, arrived in Mexico City, writer Victoria Stunt decided to retrace her steps (Credit: robertharding/Alamy)

Adventure & Experience

'She travelled because she wanted to'

By Victoria Stunt

In 1955, five students from Oxford University travelled to Idihr in hopes of studying the region’s geography, wildlife and customs (Credit: Liza Foreman)

Adventure & Experience

The Moroccan village that 'disappeared'

By Liza Foreman

Ryan MacDonald: “After being here, seeing all this, I respected [my grandfather's] drive and ion even more (Credit: Ryan MacDonald)

Adventure & Experience

The remote road that led to riches

By Ryan MacDonald

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