Twice a week, the utility’s workers use a machine developed for swimming pools to suck up the coins from the basin. During ...

In Paris in 1740 the hangman publicly burned his most famous book. In England some of the best and brightest – Alexander Pope ...

When used together, the New York museum’s print catalogue and supplementary website on their 18th-century French works make an excellent initial resource but offer little new information ...

Both iconic images of Lisbon, the yellow tram 28 line starts just outside of the hotel, while the gothic industrial-era Santa ...

As generations of schoolchildren were taught, Elizabeth I of England famously said 'I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of ...

Sherbro Island City’s vision of an elite urban development brings to mind some of the colonial thinking around the ...

Focuses on the origins of the Canzona and its evolution into the baroque sonata. Performed by Vicki Boeckman (renaissance recorders), Tina Chancey (tenor viol), Jeffrey Cohan (renaissance transverse ...

France is a holiday favourite for a reason. As off-the-beaten-track destinations enjoy their moment in the limelight, it has ...

December 31, 2024 • Finland says a ship affiliated with Russia's "shadow fleet" is linked to a 60-mile-long anchor drag mark on the seafloor. A power cable in the Baltic Sea was severed last week.

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Focus on Europe presents genuine stories about the lives of real people –from the Polish blacksmith to the Finnish air traffic controller, from a British businessman to a Turkish women‘s ...