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Victoria died at Osborne House on the Isle of White on 22nd January 1901; she was then the matriarch of European Royalty, had transformed the standing of the Monarchy and had made it the single most obvious link holding together the world’s largest…

Folklore is the science that studies the beliefs and traditions of a people. The manners, customs, prose, dance songs, fairy tales, myths, every intellectual creation such as poetry, superstitions, exorcisms, spells, melodious lullabies, folk…

John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States of America (1961-63), was born in Brookline Massachusetts May 29th 1917 and graduated from Harvard in 1940. He was the first catholic to be elected President and the youngest to die in office from…

Windsor castle is the best-known symbol of the British Monarchy. William the Conqueror choose the site for a fortress after his conquest of England in 1066. In 1917 when King George V needed to camouflage his German origins he chose Windsor as the…

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) was founded on 16th November 1945. In its ambitious goal to build peace in the minds of men, it did not consider it enough to build classrooms in devastated countries.…

Female Costume

The Creation

The earliest maps of Cyprus were in manuscript form and belong to the Lusignan and Venetian periods in the history of the island. One very rare map from this period depicts the walls of Nicosia during Lusignan rule. Although the first printed map of…

Moufflon

The Church of the Virgin Mary of Podithou, whence this wall painting derives, is in the village of Galata and dates from 1502 A.D. The Church belonged to a monastery. When the Russian traveller Basil Basky visited the Church in 1735 the monastery was…