Of all the fictional gin joints in all the towns in all the world, none may have been more famous than Rick’s Café Américain in the 1942 film Casablanca. Owned by Humphrey Bogart’s character, Rick Blaine, plenty of booze is featured in scenes set in the bar, particularly glasses of...
All the houses in old villages, towns or cities are always kept the same and traditional. In my opinion there is no other reason why I can't wait for the summer holidays every year. Italy has the most Unesco world heritage sites, three thousand years of history and had an enormous ...
He is best known for the capture of two out of the three Spanish galleons carrying the Aztec treasure of Hernan Cortes from Mexico to Spain and one ship from Santo Domingo in 1522. This was one of the earliest recorded acts of piracy against the new Spanish Empire and encouraged the ...
Like "Main Street" in America, the generic name of the primary business street of towns. This road is usually a focal point for shops and retailers in city centres. There are 5,410 High Streets in the United Kingdom. Highway 1• Australia A network of highways that circumnavigate the ...
Both my parents came from towns in Mexico. Then I was born in E1 Paso,Texas and when I was four, my family moved to a housing project in East Los Angeles.Even though we struggled to make ends meet, my parents stressed to me and my four brothers and sisters how fortunate we were to...
There are,however,festivals going on somewhere in the world every day of the year. These range from very large events which involve whole cities to local celebrations in tiny villages or neighbourhoods of towns or cities. We have selected a few of the more unusual,colourful festivals from ...
This is the kind of destination that will make even grownups wake up with nightmares days after returning from the spot. Also called Island of Dolls, Isla de las Muñecas is located in Mexico. The whole area consists of old, creepy dolls hanging from trees. Dolls in several stages of mu...
Exploring the Top 10 Ghost Towns in Texas! Subscribe toKISS FM 96.9on It doesn't always land at number 1, but it's always there. Terlingua. Is Terlingua, Texas The Lone Star State's Most Famous "Ghost Town?" It seems like it. Over the past several years, Terlingua has been the sub...
the towns of Tabasco and Vera Cruz. But these stone heads can also be found in other towns in Mexico, as well as Guatemala. Most of them were buried as early as 900 BC so it can be said that they were made earlier than that. In the museum, they are all displayed in the gardens....
female gamblers. Born at the turn of the century, Maria Gertrudis "Tules" Barceló was already known as theQueen of Sinby the time she was 25. She rose to fame thanks to an illegal gambling venue she ran in Ortiz Mountains, New Mexico, attracting attention from both authorities and the ...