The Russian city of Kaliningrad is 15,1000 square kilometers and has about 1 million people living in the region. While it is a part of Russia and has...
The Portuguese explorer, Pedro Álvares Cabral, discovered Brazil. He was born in Belmonte between 1460 and 1470 and died in Santarém in 1520. He was attached to the...
Once, the Portuguese ruled the seas and set out to discover and conquer new lands. They found over 70% of the world that Europeans didn't know about before....
There's a famous story about Empress Catherine the Great of Russia involving a horse. The myth says Catherine died because a horse fell on her while she was...
Even the idea of “fake news” being a relatively new phenomenon is, well, fake news. Our country was founded on fake news, and our first president—well, first-ish, but...
There are few countries in the world with as much variety of traditional sweets as Portugal. The immense variety of...
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