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For more than 200 years, the São José Paquete d’Africa lay hidden off Cape Town’s shore. Its excavation in 2014 uncovered a ...

Few international visitors make it to this corner of the Mediterranean, where France’s head of state has vacationed since the ...

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In July, the southern German city of Ulm transforms its river into a dramatic stage where costumed jousters in boats vie for ...

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Thanks to centuries of folklore, novels, movies, and TV shows, the tropes of vampires are carved deep into the popular ...

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