When Brooklyn was incorporated as a city in 1834, building a new city hall was high on the list of priorities.

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There is an elite group of residential roads in Wales that can genuinely claim to be the most unique, the most sought-after, ...

Some old Scandinavian writings trace kings back to Christ’s birth, once dismissed as mere tales—but perhaps there’s truth in ...

Yezhov means ‘Hedgehog’, although Stalin called him affectionately Yezhevichka, ‘little bramble’. Despite the implicit prickliness, there was momentary relief in the USSR when, in autumn 1936, Stalin ...