The Second World War Diary Stitched in Secret onto a Hong Kong Bedsheet
Day Joyce stitched a secret WWII diary into a bedsheet while interned at Hong Kong's Stanley Camp. Her remarka...
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Ten Quiet National Park Sites in New England That Skip the Crowds
From Olmsted's Brookline studio to Vermont's managed forests, ten under-visited NPS sites in New England worth...
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From Zimbabwe's Dry-Stone City to Somalia's Cave Art: 11 African Ruins Worth Skipping the Pyramids For
Beyond the pyramids: 11 remarkable African ruins, from Great Zimbabwe and Volubilis to Kilwa Kisiwani and the...
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Patagonia's Giants: How a 500-Year-Old Myth Put Argentina's Far South on the Map
How Magellan, Drake and Byron fuelled the myth of Patagonian giants — and the real story of the tall Tehuelche...
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The Gilded Gallows of Stuttgart: How an Alchemist's Failed Gold Hoax Ended in 1597
The alchemist Georg Honauer promised Duke Friedrich of Württemberg he could turn iron into gold. It ended on a...
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Guernica: the small Basque town behind Picasso's most famous painting
Picasso's Guernica: the 1937 bombing of a Basque town, the painting's exile, and where travellers can see it i...
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Christ Enthroned: One Page of the Book of Kells That's Worth the Trip to Dublin
The Book of Kells' Christ Enthroned page: how Irish monks created Ireland's greatest medieval treasure and whe...
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A Roman Farmer Figured Out Germs 2,000 Years Before Microscopes
Roman scholar Varro warned against building near swamps in 37 BC, suspecting invisible creatures that caused d...
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There's a Chunk of Roman London Hiding in a Car Park on London Wall
A surviving section of the Roman wall that encircled Londinium sits inside a car park on London Wall — free to...
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Mastro Titta: The Umbrella-Painting Executioner Who Walked Rome for 68 Years
Mastro Titta, Rome's papal executioner for 68 years, carried out 516 executions — and painted umbrellas on the...
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Gander, Newfoundland: the small town that fed 6,600 stranded travellers on 9/11 — and still welcomes visitors today
How Gander, Newfoundland housed 6,600 stranded passengers on 9/11 — and how travellers can now tour the airpor...
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The Arctic Expedition Russia Tried to Keep Secret — and the English Translator Who Smuggled It Out
Catherine the Great's 1785 Arctic expedition was kept secret for years. How translator Martin Sauer survived i...
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