On May 18, 1980, about three hundred people gathered to watch the eruption of Mount St. Helens (which means "St. Helena") in Washington state in the United States. Unfortunately, they did not know that instead of a beautiful spectacle, they were in for a real hell on earth. 42.TUT.BY recalls ...
The White House has been a part of American history since the time of George Washington, although he never lived there, writes Fox News. However, it was the first president who approved the White House project presented by the Irish architect James Hoban. Construction began in 1792 and was ...
The Acropolis of Athens is a powerful symbol in the history of democracy. However, many aspects of Greek democracy have not taken root in the modern world, writes MC Today. “What Athens was in miniature, America will embody on a full scale,” wrote Thomas Paine in 1792. It…
On October 15, 1880, the German Emperor Wilhelm I inaugurated the recently rebuilt Cologne Cathedral. With a height of 157,4 meters, it has become not only the tallest Catholic cathedral, but also the tallest structure in the whole world. In warm speeches about its opening ...
The US Forest Service invites those wishing to spend a month away from civilization on a historic ranch in one of the deepest and most famous canyons. They don’t take money from volunteers for this, but they ask to keep order in the surroundings, and also to be ready for ...
During the month of February, Lyft is offering up to $10 worth of free rides to museums, memorials, and cultural sites dedicated to Black History Month. “We believe in recognizing, celebrating and supporting the contributions of African American women and men throughout...
The more often we travel the world, the more we become convinced of its diversity and diversity. This is not only about national characteristics, architecture, or the way of life of specific countries and regions, but also about differences in their nature, climate, landscape, with a predominant ...
The more often we travel the world, the more we become convinced of its diversity and diversity. We are talking not only about national characteristics, architecture, the way of life of specific countries and regions, but also about differences in their nature, climate, landscape, with the prevailing ...
There are 650 thousand restaurants in America. Competition in this area is enormous. But the Union Oyster House in Boston occupies a special place not only on the map of the city, but also in the gastronomic culture of the country: it feeds visitors oysters, lobster and clam chowder soup already...
Storms and hurricanes, floods and earthquakes, volcanoes and forest fires, avalanches, blizzards and searing frosts, droughts and sandstorms, epidemics and sudden illnesses - the origin of all these phenomena could not be explained, and therefore they inspired terror and fear in our ...