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...
There was a time when the Portuguese dominated the seas and set out to discover and conquer new worlds. The Portuguese explorers were responsible for discovering more than...
There is a well-known legend surrounding Empress Catherine the Great of Russia, which involves a horse. The myth is that Catherine was crushed to death by a horse...
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...
Lisbon might not have the status of Rome or Paris in terms of sights, but the Portugal capital is really...
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