Author: Ms. R.

The Berkeley Building, affectionately known as the “Old John Hancock Building,” is a 495-foot tall, 26-story office building located in the Back Bay neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. Completed in 1947, the building was the second tallest in the city until the completion of the Prudential Tower in 1964. However, it remains an iconic Boston landmark. A drawing of the building even appeared for many years as part of the John Hancock Insurance Company logo. Bostonians may best know the……

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The Ralph Foster Museum on the campus of the College of the Ozarks, grew from its humble beginnings in the 1920s to become one of the Midwest’s foremost institutions of historical preservation. The primary focus of the Ralph Foster Museum today is to collect, preserve, interpret, and exhibit items relating to the Ozarks region. For many years, Foster had been collecting Native American artifacts. His interest in the College of the Ozarks prompted him to turn this collection over……

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Not so long ago, villagers across Turkey practiced an ancient tradition of horsemanship that stretches back centuries, to the days of the Mongol Empire. Work horses spent three seasons on the farm, pulling plows in the spring and carts laden with hay, corn, and other produce through summer and fall, before villagers turned them loose for the winter. The horses spent the cold months on their own, scavenging for food on the plains and foothills and relying on their……

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The debate regarding the actual name of this castle began during the 17th-century. Castell Dinas Bran is sometimes wrongly translated as “The City of Crows” because the word dinas in modern Welsh means “city,” while in Middle Welsh it means a defended enclosure. Brân meanwhile is Welsh for “crow,” suggesting that the castle’s name was “the crow’s fortress.” It has also been suggested that Brân could be the name of an individual. According to legends, Brân was a Cornish prince and the son of the Duke of……

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Visitors to the town of Gadheim will find a very unique geographical marker known as the center of the European Union. Unlike many central points located across various geographical regions, the honor of being the center of the EU is not very long-lived, as it shifts every time a country is added or leaves. In fact, the geographical center of the EU has moved six times since 1987. The point in Gadheim came into existence after the events centered……

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On September 10, 1579, Doña María de Guzmán, a young, beautiful, and rich widow founded this monastery which only accepted young women from upper-class Spanish families. At the time, it was a tradition for the second daughter of a wealthy family to enter a life of service to the church. Life was hard and it was advantageous to have a family member regularly pray for her relatives’ welfare. Elder sons and daughters were normally married off to create ties……

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