Cities

The coat of arms of the city features a bear leaning against a strawberry tree trunk.

Tallinn's only significant river is the Pirita.

There are over 450 gardens and parks in Paris.

Los Angeles is home to the largest diocese (by population) in the United States, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles.

The Colosseum was a gift to the people of Rome.

Bratislava's location is unusual and peripheral, as it is situated in the southwestern part of the country.

At the Chicago Museum of Natural History, you can admire the fossilized skeleton of the largest dinosaur - Patagotitan - and the most complete skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus named Sue.

When the Seven Years' War broke out (1757), Russian troops defeated the Prussians near Königsberg and occupied all of Prussia.

In 1990, the historic center of St. Petersburg and the complexes of suburban tsarist residences were added to the UNESCO World Heritage List.

As a result of the division of Czechoslovakia into the Czech Republic and Slovakia in 1993, Bratislava became the capital of independent Slovakia.