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In the gray waters of the North Sea, a few miles off the coast of Suffolk in England, stands one of the strangest sovereign claims in the world: a…
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Long before travel bloggers and bucket lists, the ancient Greeks compiled the original list of must-see sights: the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. It was, in essence, a…
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In the hills of Derbyshire, in the English Peak District, sits a village of honey-colored stone cottages, dry stone walls, and quiet lanes that looks, at first glance, like…
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It is one of the most absurd confrontations in the history of two great nations: a standoff that brought the United States and the British Empire to the edge…
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Imagine a single block of buildings, fused together over decades into one continuous structure, rising a dozen or more stories, with no gaps between towers and no master plan…
English has a reputation, only half-joking, for following other languages down dark alleys and rifling through their pockets for loose vocabulary. It is a language built almost entirely out of…