Survivors strive to ensure young do not forget Auschwitz
On a frosty Polish winter evening, 96-year-old Esther Senot told the 100 or so shivering students at Auschwitz-Birkenau how ...
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I'm the MailOnline Travel Editor - and these are the 37 best places I've ever stayed in, from hyper-luxury hotels to chocolate box B&Bs and one very dramatic castle
The hotel sits by Loch Lomond, home to 22 islands and 27 islets, with the piece de resistance view-wise ... felt like a royal at Airelles Château de Versailles, Le Grand Contrôle the moment ...
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Bucket-list opera houses for a concert to remember
Architectural highlights include the Versailles-inspired mirror room on the second floor ... José Carreras and the legendary pianist Richard Clayderman. Built in 1898 by French architect Eugene Ferret ...
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Versailles’s role as a palace of science
Science was used to assert French power across the world ... goats and cows were introduced to France. At Versailles he helped popularise the potato –‘le pain du pauvre’ – despite public resistance, ...
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A History of the Free City of Danzig (Now Gdansk)
The terms of the World War I-ending Treaty of Versailles required defeated Germany ... he made Danzig a semi-independent client state of his French Empire, also known as the Free City of Danzig.
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Reasons for the outbreak of World War One
The war in Europe spread to Africa, Asia, and the Middle East, as British, French, and German colonies ... Belgium put up a strong resistance, and Britain joined the war. What’s more, Schlieffen ...
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The Château-Style Victorian Mansion In California That’s Straight Out Of A Jane Austen Novel
Kimberly Crest House & Gardens stands proudly atop a hill, its turrets and spires reaching for the impossibly blue California ...
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From Michalis Stasinopoulos to Konstantinos Tasoulas – All the residents of the Presidential Mansion
Seven men and one woman have ascended to the highest office of the country following the 1974 Referendum and the ...
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This Sweet Tooth Road Trip Will Take You To 12 Dreamy Dessert Shops In California
Embark on this sweet tooth road trip and explore twelve dreamy dessert shops scattered across California. Picture this: You’re strolling through San Francisco’s Mission District, the scent of freshly ...
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The life and legacy of Gianni Agnelli, 22 years after his death
When Italy changed its allegiance away from the Axis powers later that year, he fought gallantly with the resistance, while his fluent English ... The rolling, carnival house party of the 1950s French ...
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Palace of Versailles: Everything You Need to Know
The Palace of Versailles, known as château de Versailles in French, is a paragon of Baroque architecture that once served as a royal residence and the de facto capital of France—but its ...
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These Fascinating Objects Show How the Palace of Versailles Drove Surprising Scientific Advances in the 17th and 18th Centuries
Science and Splendor," a new exhibition illustrates how the royal court encouraged innovation during the reigns of Louis XIV, ...