In 1598 Spanish explorers entered the area, within the next 20 years missions were established in most of the Rio Grande pueblos. Fransican priests directed the building of churches and conventos, each larger and grander than the previous one. Cultural conflict, Apache raids, disease, drought a...
The vast majority of bars, lounges, and clubs in Santorini are located in Fira. High-end lounges and bars tend to be near the caldera where patrons can sip local wine and cocktails while taking in a colorful sunset over the sea. Farther inland in Fira are casual bars, dives, and night...
Begun in 1248 and finished in 1880, it became a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1996. Unlike Speyer, Cologne was pretty much flattened during the bombing raids in WWII, but incredibly, despite taking seventy bomb hits the Cathedral did not collapse – awesome construction, or, puny bombs. I’...
A similar malware went undetected within the border police, and last week, as hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian women and children tried to leave the country, computers at the crossing to Romania were disabled, adding to the chaos, according to people familiar with the matter. … On the last...