The American flag almost had fourteen stripes, not thirteen… and Nova Scotia nearly became an American state, not a Canadian province. In fact, it is doubtful that Canada would even exist in its present form if this event had occurred. Quite possibly all of North America, from the Arctic Ocean and south to the Rio Grande, would today be known as the United States of America.
Celebrate Your Scottish Heritage…on International Tartan Day
Few know that the Scots were once forbidden by law to wear their tartans. This measure was taken because of the rather irritating tendency (at least to the English) for the Scots to want to return he whom they believed to the ‘legitimate king’ to the throne of England.
Battlefields that forged Canada’s border
With all of Donald Trump’s talk of borders, ever wonder how our eastern border with the United States evolved?
Tipu Unplugged
No Indian ruler has aroused as much admiration and hatred as Tipu Sultan, the ‘Tiger of Mysore’.
Finding Our Scottish Roots
Making our way to Edinburgh, we mounted Castlehill and crossed the large forecourt of the magnificent Edinburgh Castle. Our destination? Canada!
History for Sale: You Can Own Dracula’s Castle for Just $135 Million
If you are in the process of selling your home and worry about finding a potential buyer, then spare a thought for the owners of Bran Castle in Romania. Not only does the huge, imposing castle command a 135 million euros price tag, it is affectionately known as Dracula’s castle by the locals.
In Search of Dracula
Hunyadi Castle, in Eastern Transylvania, is the major sight in the town of Hunedoara, which is studded with abandoned factories that date back to the Ceausescu era of the 1970s and 80s. Hunyadi’s origins echo 15th century masonry, and Vlad Tepes, it is suspected, might have been imprisoned within its walls at one time.
Moroccan and a’rollin’
Arms outstretched, my palms lay flat against 1200-year-old mud brick walls, defining the width of cobblestone laneways through Fes’s ancient Medina – but here comes a donkey caravan, laden with plastic water drums and bolts of cloth, and it is my obligation to scuttle into a doorway and allow them clear passage.
Sir Wilfred Grenfell
“The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth. It is obvious that man is himself a traveler; that the purpose of this world is not ‘to have and to hold’ but ‘to give and serve.’ There can be no other meaning.” Explore the life of Sir Wilfred Grenfell!
The Birth Of A New Sport
Though not quite in the form it is now played today, basketball is the only major sport custom-designed by a physician!
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