Great Explorers: Middle East
The great European explorers of the Middle East are noted for their extraordinary endurance, epic journeys often involving a lifelong commitment and a habit of going native.
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Switzerland
Le Corbusier‘s Radiant City
Built between 1947 and 1952 this apartment block in Marseille incorporates all the theories of what was called The Radiant City formulated by Le Corbusier in 1935.
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Five of the World’s Tough Treks
TREKKING IN PAPUA Irian Jaya, now known as Papua Province, is Indonesia’s final frontier and one of the last great
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Albert Einstein‘s Forgotten Wife
Albert Einstein developed his theory of relativity in Bern in 1905 and the humble apartment where Einstein lived with his young family between 1903 and 1905 while working in the Bern patent office which has now been turned into a museum.
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The Legend of William Tell
In a centre town square in Interlaken a heroic bronze figure, a stern, sturdy, bearded man in homespun clothes, crossbow over his shoulder, stands with his arm around a barefooted boy.
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