The cubicle began as a reaction against open-plan offices. Before the 1960s, office workers sat at desks in open rooms, exposed to constant noise and activity. In 1960 Herman Miller founded a research unit that concluded the office had changed a great deal, yet its layout had not. The researcher Robert Propst found that open space reduced communication and personal initiative, and his team created the Action Office, which was first a sales failure. A redesigned Action Office line later sold about $5 billion by 2005. Many cube farms were built during the dotcom boom, and the cycle reversed in the 2000s, when open plans returned as a response to cubicles, and in 2020 plexiglass partitions reintroduced divisions.

Israeli reports also say the cabinet directed the military to prepare for a possible new attack on Iran.

Angkor, near Siem Reap in northern Cambodia, was the capital of the Khmer Empire, which ruled much of mainland Southeast Asia between roughly the 9th and 15th centuries. At its height the city spread across about 3,000 square kilometres, making it the largest pre-industrial city on Earth by area. Its growth depended on water: huge reservoirs called barays, along with canals and embankments, stored monsoon rain and carried it to rice fields. That system let farmers harvest more than once a year and fed a very large population through the dry season. The temple complex of Angkor Wat, built in the early 12th century, is the best-known monument and still stands at the heart of the park.