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The Paradores of Spain are so much more than mere hotels. They are repositories of the romance...

18 March 1454 Florence - †22 February 1512 Seville Amerigo Vespucci was an Italian navigator,...

The Pilgrims and the Mayflower Who were the Mayflower pilgrims, and why did they come to...

Imagine Napoleon’s dismay when he realised he was not being banished to America as he anticipated...

Rhaeto-Romance, Rheto-Romance, or Rhaetian, is a purported subfamily of the Romance languages...

Abel Tasman and country named after him New Zealand is a country in the southwestern Pacific...

Regardless of the many languages one is fortunate to be fluent in English takes its place as one...

The Kumano Kodo (熊野古道) Kumano Kodo (熊野古道) refers to a network of pilgrimage trails through the...

Regions of Britain Great Britain is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean off the northwest...

List of English monarchs  This list of kings and queens of the Kingdom of England begins with...

Tulip season in The Netherlands Part of The Netherlands is transformed into a vast sea of...

Living in a small town in Switzerland, this is how Audrey Hepburn spent her last 30 years of life...

THE STORY OF A DREAM The idea for an ambitious, large-scale museum dedicated to Charlie Chaplin...

Actor, producer. Most remembered for his dapper English roles in such films as the Pink Panther...

Here are five hidden facts you may not know about playing cards. Playing cards date back...

(CNN) -- The longest railway tunnel in the world was completed on Friday in Switzerland when the...

During our two-week-vacation in Tuscany in June 2013, we did a three-day trip (13/16 June) to...

My name is Vivienne. I was born and raised in Peking (Beijing), China.     In the late 1980th I...