Route 26 makes the perfect introduction to southern Scandinavia. Our journey runs up Jutland before we hop on a ferry across ...
Britain has more than 3,000 stately homes, and many are open to us hoi polloi. Indeed, visiting a stately home has become a ...
This style was intimately associated with the Hanseatic League – a confederation of ports and other cities that in the 15th ...
His name? Edward Jenner. For over three thousand years, smallpox devasted mankind. In 18th century Europe, this ‘speckled monster’ killed roughly 400,000 people every year, and for centuries ...
By Milena Lazazzera More than 100 porcelain perfume bottles from the 18th century are being offered ... that once existed and still exists in Europe?” Modern Love at 20: Reading some 200,000 ...
Indigenous people occupied the land for at least 40,000 years before the first British settlements of the 18th century. #1 in Cares about animal rights The Commonwealth of Australia occupies the ...
The 15th century was when the Age ... a new staple was created in Europe: chocolate. Moreover, by the 1530s, tobacco, smoked ...
As you approach New Haven, on the right you’ll pass “Composition in Black and Brown,” a billboard by the artist Ken Gonzales-Day collaging his photographs of 18th-century marble busts from ...
The DNA from archaeological cat remains is being tested in an effort to solve the mystery of cat domestication. Scientists have known for a while that feline domestication has come about in a way that ...
A 1797 “Wildman of Jesso” bronze half-penny-sized advertising token was the star attraction during Stanley Gibbons Baldwin’s ...