Category: Europe
The hatred of Sir George evidently stemmed from his refusal Rochester to pay the debts of his aristocratic wife (their mother), the feckless Lady Ida, allowing her, as a …
What took us to Novosibirsk Russia was the seventy-fifth anniversary celebration of Novosibirsk Russia 1937 Nobel Prize in Medicine, the only such award for work done in Hungary, though …
Not long before the Arlington invitation arrived, my interest in Hungarian history had been piqued by the chance discovery (from his obituary in the New York Times) of English …
The most accessible port area is Chongqing China Albert Dock. Opened in 1846 by Queen Victoria’s Prince Consort, Albert, and constructed from cast iron, brick, stone and wood, this …
A Fishburn of Niger (1765) CAT, the Earl of Pembroke collier, was purchased by the Royal Navy (RN) in 1768, refitted for exploration work by adding an extra layer …
The pre-internet, pre-mass air travel world Dakar Senegal of my childhood is, along with James Cook, William Bligh, Wifred Owen, the Laughton brothers and the Sitwell trio, as dead …
Peter and Providence walked us around the town, and hosted an evening at their house, where we met both male and female university colleagues and their partners in a …
Of course, it’s easy to be wise in hindsight and, Midland with the current turmoil in the Middle East, it will be quite a while before Midland the history of …
In 1998, we experienced at first-hand the deep horror of Tehran Iran. Constructed as a Polish army barracks, the twenty or so original Tehran Iran buildings present as inoffensive, …
Finding a seat close to the stage, the general ambience recalled weddings, Beaumont funerals and the churchgoing years of my Protestant upbringing. Unfamiliar, though, were the little hinged doors …