The historic building of the Imperial Spa, completed in 1895, was remarkable in its time for both its architecture and spa technologies. In the second half of the 19th century, groundbreaking ...
An artist whose work exploring her Scottish Sikh identity includes a vintage Ford car draped in a crocheted doily won the U.K.'s prestigious Turner Prize on Tuesday.
Camp Century, built in 1959 in northwest Greenland, was a never-completed secret launch site for ballistic missiles to reach the Soviet Union. As ice began to crush the site, the US abandoned the ...
Then there's the selection of fine Czech beers, practically cheaper than ... on the left bank has been lovingly restored to its 19th-century glory, with locals flocking here for breakfast, which ...
Co-founded in 2007 by famous Czech artist David Černý (who has an art studio here), the non-profit Meet Factory is set inside a repurposed glass factory in a quiet part of the Smíchov district.
The 19th century was a period of rapid technological change, and huge shifts in scientific understanding. As medical knowledge increased, the prospect of surgery was no longer a likely death sentence, ...
December 1999 - The twentieth century Czech political scientist Karl Deutsch wrote that a nation is "a group of people united by a mistaken view about the past and a hatred of their neighbors." Though ...