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Heritage, faith, art and the places that shape them, from the LIKE® archive and new features.

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Nine cranes fly in a loose wedge across a pale grey sky; along the bottom edge runs the caption LIKE Magazine, Day of the White Cranes, October 22, 2026

(LIKE® Art · Culture · Diplomacy)

DAY OF THE WHITE CRANES: THE SOLDIERS WHO FLY HOME AS CRANES, THE GIRL WHO FOLDED A THOUSAND AND THE DAY A POET ASKED THE WORLD NOT TO FIRE

On Oct. 22, the Day of the White Cranes, the fallen are remembered beneath an image born in a Dagestani poem and a Hiroshima hospital room, one that now stands in stone and bronze from Saratov to Seattle.

D. Michael De La Force at sunset above the temple plain of Bagan, Myanmar. Photo: LIKE Magazine archive

(LIKE® Culture · Travel & Tourism · Diplomacy · Global)

SUNSET OVER BAGAN: MYANMAR'S TEMPLE PLAIN, AND THE COUNTRY AROUND IT

Bagan's temple plain at sunset, and the Myanmar around it in 2026: a general-turned-president, new US talks, the Shwedagon's diamond, Inle Lake, faiths and the poppy fields.