Crater Lake, Oregon, has been known different names. It was first known, to non-Native Americans anyway, as “Deep Blue Lake,”...
Month: July 2020
July 31 – Some important events on this day. 30 BC 👉🏼 Battle of Alexandria: Mark Antony achieves minor victory...
We are in Ōsaki, in Japan's remote Tohoku region, where an abandoned amusement park rests upon the banks of the...
July 30 – Some important events on this day. 101 BC 👉🏼 Battle of Vercellae: Roman army under Gaius Marius...
If you go to any coastal town in the South, you’ll see huge, centuries-old live oaks with limbs covered in...
July 29 – Some important events on this day. 626 👉🏼 Avaren/Slaves under khagan Bajan begin siege of Constantinople 904...
We are off the coast of the Greek port city of Andros. Rising up out of the islet of Tourlitis,...
This incredible woman probably had to defy the laws of gravity after she survived a fall of 75 storeys trapped...
July 28 – Some important events on this day. 1148 👉🏼 Second Crusade: Crusaders abandon their siege of Damascus 1330...
Assistens Cemetery, Assistens Kirkegård in Danish, in Copenhagen, Denmark, is the burial site of many local notables. An "assistenskirkegård" (which...
July 27 – Some important events on this day. 1214 👉🏼 1st battle of Bouvines: King Philip II of France...
Since the days of the Roman empire, alum was used as a mordant or fixative that allowed textiles to be...
July 26 – Some important events on this day. 657 👉🏼 Battle of Siffin during the first Muslim civil war...
Vicars' Close, in Wells, Somerset, England, is claimed to be the oldest purely residential street with original buildings still intact...
July 25 – Some important events on this day. 306 👉🏼 Constantine I is proclaimed Roman Emperor by his troops...
When bees feed on the pollen of rhododendron flowers, the resulting honey can become a hallucinogenic punch. It’s called "mad...
The Victorian era was one of enormous transformation for British industry and architecture, popular also for its weirdnesses, including funerals...
July 24 – Some important events on this day. 1487 👉🏼 Citizens of Leeuwarden, Netherlands, rebel against ban on foreign...
The top of Glengesh Pass in County Donegal, Ireland, is breathtaking. Here you’re in one of the most remote corners...
July 23 – Some important events on this day. 1215 👉🏼 Frederick II crowned King of the Romans (King of...
Draga Mitrićević was a daughter of a well-to-do entrepreneur and Privy Councilor. She was educated abroad and spoke several languages...
July 22 – Some important events on this day. 1099 👉🏼 First Crusade: Godfrey of Bouillon is elected the first...
Svörtuloft (or the Black Ceiling) is a ruggedly beautiful place to visit. Despite the name sounds ominous, it stems from...
July 21 – Some important events on this day. 356 BC 👉🏼 Herostratus sets fire to the Temple of Artemis...
Located in the outer city district of Simmering, Wiener Zentralfriedhof, or Vienna Central Cemetery, is one of the largest cemeteries...
July 20 – Some important events on this day. 1304 👉🏼 Wars of Scottish Independence: fall of Stirling Castle -...
Probably you can’t afford to shell out $330,000 for a brand new Rolls Royce Cullinan, but you can still get...
July 19 – Some important events on this day. 1595 👉🏼 Astronomer Johannes Kepler has an epiphany and develops his...
If we speak about architecture, the Romans are among the greatest builders of the world’s history. Some of the surviving...
July 18 – Some important events on this day. 64 👉🏼 Great Fire of Rome begins under the Emperor Nero....
