Discover how London’s unbearable Great Stink of 1858 forced Parliament to support Joseph Bazalgette’s revolutionary sewer system and transform public health.
Faced with floods, volcanoes, unstable mines, reservoirs, and other threats, entire communities chose or were forced to leave familiar streets behind and begin again somewhere safer. Their stories show that moving a town involves far more than transporting buildings because identity, livelihoods, memory, and political power must move with it.
The downfall of Nero in June of AD 68 set off a struggle in Rome that saw four emperors in the span of a year.
During a food shortage in WWI, an army supply ship docked in Amsterdam and had to fight off men and women looting the supplies.
When the remains of Knossos were discovered, it was noticed that the site had a familiar layout—which led archaeologists to an even more intriguing discovery.
In the heart of Prague’s Old Town, you’ll find a church proudly displaying a withered black arm dangling by a meat hook. The rotten limb is estimated to be about 400 years old—and its origin story is deeply disturbing.
In Paris, it is illegal to distribute images of the Eiffel tower taken at night due to copyright issues regarding the light display.
In 2011, Tokyo's Shiodome Nihon TV Studios recorded one of the greatest human feats of all time, when 21 members of the Caless Dance School squeezed into a Mini Cooper.
During the occupation of Greece, Grand Rabbi Elias Barzilai was ordered to submit a list of names and addresses of Jews living in Athens. But in a great act of defiance—he did the unthinkable.
Perhaps the most historically significant city on the planet.
London is the capital and largest city in England in terms of land and population. It was initially founded by the Romans who named it Londinium. Since the 19th century, "London" has also referred to...
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