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The earliest surviving information places Dublin’s Christ Church Cathedral in its current location as far back as circa 1030. Dublin’s first bishop and Dublin’s Norse king together founded the Viking Church, which was most likely under the rule of Canterbury’s archbishop. By the mid-1100s, Christ Church was enfolded into the Irish church and a short …
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The World Heritage Site at Avebury is one of Neolithic Britain’s amazing surviving ceremonial sites. The sequence in which the various mounds, ditches, circles, and banks were built is unknown. So as not to disturb the site, very limited excavations have been performed. Thanks to more recent geophysical studies, as well as aerial, it is …
Bayou Bend – Museum of Fine Arts – Houston, Texas – Bayou Bend is housed in what used to be the home of I. Hogg, a Houston area art collector and humanitarian. Bayou Bend is now Houston’s Museum of Fine Arts collection illustrating some of the earliest American arts and decorative paintings. Ms. Hogg began …
The Falkirk region of Scotland is home to Airth Castle. What was once merely another of Scotland’s many castles is now a five-star luxury resort hotel with 125 rooms. Airth Castle Resort and Hotel has all of the amenities that a visitor would expect, such as Cloud Nine Beauty Spa, which houses a full-service spa …
It is unknown what its purpose or meaning may have been to the Neolithic peoples who built this mound, but Silbury Hill remains a most intriguing monument in all of Europe. The mound is the largest prehistoric mound made by man in the region. While both its purpose and meaning may escape us for now, …
Originally known as No Man’s Canyon, this gorge is situated over Franklin and Fuller Avenues, extending to the north up to Mulholland Drive. Local tribes, the Gabrielinos and the Tongvas, are thought to have utilized this canyon and the surrounding land as a campsite seasonally. The area was known to these nomadic tribes as Nopalera, …
