Author name: Cristina Daniels

[ad_1] This mural, located on the end of a row of houses just off City Road in Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK, commemorates a way of life that ended in the late 19th century. It is constructed  from different colored bricks on the gable wall of a row of houses known as Sallyport Crescent. Before the

[ad_1] Denver International Airport is notorious for its weird, enigmatic exhibits, from a conspiracy-ridden mural to a massive statue of a demonic horse that killed its own creator. There’s also a pair of Notre-Dame-style gargoyle sculptures above the baggage claim carousels. Just because. Officially titled Notre Denver, the unusual airport gargoyles were created in 1994 by

[ad_1] Qila Rai Pithora was the first major city in modern-day Delhi and the capital of the Delhi Sultanate. Today, its best-known remaining monument is the Qutab Minar, the medieval tallest minaret in India, commemorating the conquest of this region by Sultanate founder Qutab ud-Din Aibak. However, it was once going to be dwarved by

[ad_1] Wealth and affluence have long flowed through Georgetown in Washington, D.C. Whether inspired by the trappings of high society or true love, marriages between prominent families and families of limited or lesser means are not uncommon in the history of this prosperous parish. Baron Alexander de Bodisco was a Russian diplomat with the official

[ad_1] For centuries, Iceland was plagued with a nationwide pandemic: leprosy. In 1898, a law was passed stipulating that people with leprosy had to be isolated from the rest of the population.  Those afflicted with the disease were committed to the hospital in Laugarnes. The Holdsveikraspítalinn í Laugarnesi was a gift to the people of