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Blijdorp is a walhalla for young families in Rotterdam, and the number one place to stay with kids. The neighborhood is small ...
Creative types have been flocking to the West Bohemian Spa Triangle for centuries, but it’s still relatively unknown outside ...
Does industrial concentration shape the life and death of cities? We identify settlements from historical maps of England and Wales (1790–1820), isolate exogenous variation in their late 19th-century ...
Why, 200 years ago, was a five-year-old girl in Scotland painstakingly embroidering her idea of Australia, and what can ...
The Bayeux Tapestry, a 70-meter- (229-foot)- long medieval artwork that depicts the Norman conquest of England, will be ...
S OME 120 years on, few remember the outrage provoked by the awarding of the Nobel peace prize to Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th American president and, to his critics, a might-makes-right, America ...
The 19th-century power struggle between the Sikhs, the British, and the Afghans shaped the political landscape of the time.
In the heart of County Kerry lies a land of contrasts, where rare ferns and moss blanket lush valleys of ancient forests, ...
Warsaw's gorgeously reconstructed Old Town and, in its rising downtown, the new museum of modern art, by the New York–based ...
The River Seine reopened to swimmers in Paris on Saturday morning, marking the first time since 1923 that bathers could take ...
Eltville am Rhein invites visitors to slow down and stroll through history along the banks of the Rhine River.