The Books In Historic Portuguese Library 'Biblioteca Joanina' Have The Most Unusual Guardians — Bats Books are a storehouse ...

The outsized number of restaurants in the area reflects the global taste of the international community at Georgetown ...

But by the 18th century the Republic of Venice was in decline ... Noticing her precocious interest in reading as a child, he built a library and hired a tutor to support her intellectual ambitions.

An organized system to assist runaway slaves seems to have begun towards the end of the 18th century. In 1786 George Washington complained about how one of his runaway slaves was helped by a ...