Imagine that you are a merchant in 17th-century Mexico. With bated breath, you stand at the harbor of Acapulco, eagerly ...

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Since humans discovered the power and capability that comes with numbers, we have lived in societies that enable us to … ...

The city is known for its baroque streetscapes, imperial palaces ... of the headquarters of an Austrian Hungarian Monarchy Bank, right in the heart of The Golden Quarter. Everything from The Opera to ...

A vast archive of letters sent by relatives of soldiers missing in World War One seeking the help of Spain's King Alfonso ...

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ATHENS, Greece — Members of Spanish and Danish royal families gathered ... Greece abolished the monarchy in 1974, and members of the former royal family regained their Greek citizenship in ...