Alex A
Traveller, writer and history buff. You can usually find me in coffee shop somewhere in Europe.
Articles by Alex A:
In the Middle Ages, onions were so important that people would pay their rent with them and give them as gifts
Mummy portraits – Disturbingly realistic wooden paintings depict the ancient faces of Egypt from 2000 years ago
Interactive map shows every Nazi bomb dropped on London during the Blitz
The Queen’s Hamlet: Marie-Antoinette’s fairy tale Rustic Village at Versailles, where she loved to act like a “simple peasant”
Founded in 1905, Lombardi’s is the first Pizzeria in the United States
In Ancient Greece the winners of the Panathenaic Games were given as prizes amphoras, containing as much as 10 gallons of olive oil
Due to the Napoleonic Wars, the capital of Portugal was moved from Lisbon to Rio de Janeiro for thirteen years.
The Octobass- An extremely large bowed string instrument that was first built around 1850
Victor Hugo wrote “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” to raise awareness of undervalued Gothic architecture in Paris
Amish dolls are left faceless, possibly to emphasize that “all are alike in the eyes of God”
