The spectacular engineering behind New York’s water supply (great pictures)
Built in 1158, The Cathedral of St Andrew was the largest and most remarkable church in Scotland
The relationship between monasteries, abbeys and beers in Belgium is a rather perplexed one
The ancient city of Polonnaruwa: one of the best planned archaeological relic sites in Sri Lanka
Imago Mundi is the name of the Babylonian map which is the oldest in the world
The catastrophic Russian famine of 1921-22 killed more than 5 million people
A mysterious organization terrorized Japanese food production companies during the 1980s
Shah-i-Zinda necropolis: a magnificent complex of medieval Samarkand mausoleums
A best-selling book from 1919 was written by a 9-year old
Arthur Guinness signed a 9000-year lease for an abandoned brewery in Dublin: Guinness is still brewed at St. James Gate
