Valletta, capital of Malta. Historical Fort St. Elmo is to the left, while domes and steeples pierce the skyline.
The poor were consigned to a lower hall, actually much prettier in my opinion, although the poor...
Midtown Manhattan, or simply Midtown, is a geographic area of Manhattan, New York City. It is home to some of the city's most iconic buildings, including the Empire State Building, the Chrysler Building, and the...
The Republic of Turkey was created after the overthrow of Sultan Mehmet VI Vahdettin by the new Republican Parliament in 1922. This new regime delivered the coup de grâce to the Ottoman state which had...
The Ottoman Navy was established in the early 14th century. During its long existence it was involved in many conflicts; refer to list of Ottoman sieges and landings and list of Admirals in the Ottoman...
The sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) is a dicotyledonous plant that belongs to the family Convolvulaceae. Its large, starchy, sweet-tasting, tuberous roots are a root vegetable. The young leaves and shoots are sometimes eaten as greens....
I've always been fascinated by Shamanism although it always felt somewhat distant to me growing up, largely because it wasn't something that locals did or knew much about in my small American town in the...
I always knew I was going to dislike Mexico City. Everything I read before my trip foreshadowed an insipid megalopolis drowning in the sea of frou-frou restaurants, superfluous street art and über-rich neighborhoods that makes most...
I spent the summer between kindergarten and first grade hunting butterfliesand was fascinated by the monarch butterfly. Armed with a net my dad had rigged up for me out of a five-foot dowel and a...
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