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Booming Taipei: Capital of the ROC
Taipei, the capital of Taiwan, has undergone enormous change since its founding in the eighteenth century. Rice fields have been replaced by skyscrapers, and a modern, commercial city of millions has grown out of once quiet settlements.
Provocative Mumbai: Home of the Busiest Railway Station on Earth
Mumbai, in the past known as Bombay, is one of the most densely populated cities in the world. In 1533, when the Portuguese founded Bom Bahia, which means "good bay", no one could have predicted what Mumbai would end up like.
Glorious Vilnius: Architecture from the Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Neoclassical and Jugendstil periods
The Lithuanian city of Vilnius radiates southern charm under the northern sun. Positioned in the natural amphitheatre of the surrounding Lithuanian hills, Vilnilus has a lot to offer visitors besotted with historical buildings.
Modest Melbourne: Arts Heartland of Australia
As so often in Australias history, Melbourne was founded through deception when explorer John Batman, an Australian fluent in several aboriginal languages, made a "deal" with aborigines to lease land on behalf of speculators.
Copenhagen Capital of Denmark
Almost everyone who comes to Copenhagen visits the little mermaid harbour. Hans Christian Andersen's popular story is about a beautiful mermaid willing to give up her life in the sea and her identity as a merperson to gain a human soul and the love of a human prince.
The Aztecs and their history
The Aztecs have always been a shining example of human progress. Their achievements and events have rivaled most of the empires of Europe. Read on to know their bloody and turbulent history.
Fish oil: Why you should drink it?
You might have drunk it daily when you were a kid. In fact, you might still be using cod liver oil. Read on to know where it originated from and its unique history.
A short history of the automobile
Driving a car back and fro from work has exposed us our dependence on it. Read on to find the humble beginnings of this everyday object and its confused history.
Plastic storage containers & the skeletons they could hold
A discussion on Compulsive Hoarding Disorder and the neurosis that supports this much ridiculed mental health concern that is getting more common by the day.
The Charming History of Wine - it all Started with a Mistake
This story examines the roots of wine.
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