Cities

The law was overturned in 2012. For almost 200 years, women would have to gain permission from city authorities if they wished to “dress as a man.”

Many objects, such as the Louvre, the Orsay Museum, and the Pompidou Center, are well known worldwide.

During the French offensive in 1812, St. Petersburg was not Napoleon's target. He attacked the "heart" of Russia - Moscow, thanks to which St. Petersburg was not destroyed.

In the early Middle Ages, the city was ruled by the Austrian Babenberg dynasty, and after the dynast ...

The United States Army Corps of Engineers turned this river into a fire protection channel - its banks were concreted for 82 km and the river flows through concrete channels.

At the beginning of the 19th century, about 300.000 people lived in St. Petersburg, in 1853 - about ...

Vines are grown there by about 400 growers on an area of about 700 hectares, with white wine in 80 p ...

The city hosts the annual Academy Awards ceremony. It is the oldest and most respected awards ceremo ...

He lived there from 1838 to 1844 with his wife, Virginia Clemm Poe. Initially, he was editor of Burt ...

On August 2, 1769, the Spanish officer Gaspar de Portola, who served as the first governor of Califo ...