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Why Is Puerto Rico Part of the USA? The Full Story
When you arrive at Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in San Juan, you do not clear customs or immigration. The currency is the US dollar. Signs are in English and Spanish. Police drive Ford Explorers with lights and sirens identical to those...
Oslo's Viking Ship Museum: The World's Best-Preserved Viking Vessels
On the Bygdøy peninsula — Oslo's museum quarter — stands a cross-shaped building of modest exterior and extraordinary interior. The Viking Ship Museum (Vikingskipshuset) holds what is beyond reasonable argument the finest collection of original Vikin...
What Was LoDo? The Remarkable History of Denver's Lower Downtown District
LoDo or, Lower Downtown Denver is the roughly 25-block area bounded by the Platte River to the west, Larimer Street to the north, 20th Street to the east, and Speer Boulevard to the south. It is today Denver's most densely packed dining and nightlife...
The Oldest Cemetery in the United States
Ask which cemetery in America is the oldest and you'll start an argument. The honest answer is that it depends entirely on what you mean by "oldest" — and the most defensible title belongs to a small, unassuming plot of ground in Duxbury, Massachuset...
The Stanley Hotel: The Night That Gave Stephen King The Shining
On the night of October 8, 1974, a young, not-yet-famous writer named Stephen King checked into a grand old hotel in the Colorado Rockies with his wife Tabitha. It was the very end of the season. The hotel was closing for winter the next day, the sta...
Why Is It Called Budapest?
The name Budapest is a well-known city name in Europe in terms of tourism and one of the least known in terms of its actual history. Budapest was formed in 1873 by the administrative merger of three separate cities, Buda, Óbuda, and Pest. What Doe...