Galway has been dub bed the Gateway to the West. For hundreds of years, this was a modest fishing village, then in the 13th century, the English wised up to the area's strategic spot on the water. 14

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The Villa is one of the few places on the Riviera where you can tour a grand Belle Epoque mansion. It was built for the Baroness Ephrussi de Rothschild in the early 1900s. She supervised and directed

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Goods flowed down this riverway from France and Switzerland on their way to the sea for transshipment all over Europe. Nobles along the way collected tolls, but big profits could still be made by whol

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Good evening, I don't know if it made the stir outside the United States that it'd made here, but last Monday night, the big headline in the evening papers and on the telly was one that the poor fello

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There has been a settlement here since about 500 B.C., but Rothenburg didn't really come into its own until the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf the First, chartered it as a free imperial city in 1274. Rothe

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In 1976, two local art collectors donated their outstanding collection of modern art to the town of Troyes. The works of the artists known as

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I can't imagine my life or anyone else’s without music. It's like a light in the darkness that never goes out. The blues takes you back to the place where it first came to life. There is an old Afri

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As you leave the castle area, you can stroll through the Malá Strana or Lesser Quarter tuck ed at the foot of the hill. The neighborhood, one of the best preserved in the city, prospered when upper-c

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Windsor castle, of all Britain's royal palaces, none is older, larger or more loved. This magnificent thousand-year-old fortress is no museum -- it's a vast, living castle. Home to the Queen since chi

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Like all stories from history, this is a search for ghosts -- a quest for the people who made us what we are, and for one man in particular. William Shakespeare is the most famous writer of all time,

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(Vienna 1785) My son was hail ed by all of Vienna not only as a great pianist, but as one of the greatest and most controversial composers of his time. But I saw it first. I nurtured that talent in hi

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In January,1559, Elizabeth I was crowned Queen of England. She was the last of the Great Tudor dynasty, a bright star who dazzled both the nation and the world. The achievement of most stars fades qui

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The ancient landscape of Ireland is steeped in myths and legends. Some go back 3000 years into the mystery of its Bronze Age people. They left behind hoards of extraordinary work in gold. But nobody k

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North of the Arena , the old town streets lead inevitably to the Piazza delle Erbe. Once the site of a Roman Forum, the Piazza is still the city’s hub , a marketplace, gathering place and shopping m

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From its earliest days, Britain was an object of desire. Tacitus declared it

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This series is about the disappearance of something, religious faith. It's the story of what is often referred to as atheism , the history of the growing conviction that God doesn't exist. Given the f

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The story of Noah building an ark to save his family and save thousands of animals from a flood which destroys all life on earth is an epic from many people's childhoods. It's a wonderful story found

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We used to be a nation of farmers. But now it’s less than two percent of the population in the United States. And so, a lot of us don’t know what it takes to grow food. Over 12 thousand years ago

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The pioneers of flight have captured public imagination, but the history of aviation is a catalogue of human tragedy and technical disaster. The catastrophic loss of the Hindenburg airship, and the dr

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