Unassuming Melbourne: Arts Capital of Australia

December 31, 2008 – 2:54 am

As so often in Australia’s history, Melbourne was founded through fraud when explorer John Batman, an Australian fluent in several aboriginal languages, made a “deal” with aborigines to lease land on behalf of speculators.
While offering the Aborigines any compensation at all was progressive in a colonial culture that preferred to simply run them off [...]

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Piazza San Marco - One of Venice’s Most Beautiful Squares

December 15, 2008 – 5:33 am

 
One of the world’s most evocative squares, Piazza San Marco (St. Mark’s Square) is the heart of Venice, a vast open space bordered by an orderly procession of arcades marching toward the fairy tale cupolas and marble lacework of the Basilica di San Marco.
Alwyas packed by day with tourists and fluttering pigeons, it can be [...]

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