Bonsai tree planted in 1625 has survived Hiroshima and is still flourishing at the National Arboretum in Washington D.C. News
With an estimated 33,000 sculptures, the Meenakshi Amman Temple in India has been nominated for the “New Seven Wonders of the World” News
Shirley Temple was so popular in the USA that President Franklin Roosevelt once proclaimed: “As long as our country has Shirley Temple, we will be all right” News
In 1829, Alexander Griboyedov became the first Russian ambassador to be assassinated when he sheltered Armenian women who had escaped from the Shah’s harem News