Cities

Palm trees are common in the Los Angeles area.

The Laurentian Library (Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana or BML) was built in the cloister of the Medici Basilica of San Lorenzo di Firenze.

The first inhabitants of Shanghai settled in the western part of the city 6,000 years ago.

In 1512, the Medici regained control of Florence.

Eating, drinking, and throwing gum are not allowed on Dubai's trains, and people doing it face fines.

In 1454, the city was incorporated into Poland for a year thanks to King Casimir IV Jagiellon who changed its name to Królewiec.

In the 15th century, an important figure for Florence was Girolamo Savonarola - a Dominican, religious and political reformer, who was considered a heretic and schismatic by the Catholic Church.

The first American to receive the Nobel Prize in science in 1907 was Albert A. Michelson, who worked at the University of Chicago.

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

Palermo is a city in southern Italy, the capital of both the autonomous region of Sicily and the metropolis of Palermo.