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Unbeknownst to the thousands of passengers that pass through the station each day, right under their feet, between platforms 2 and 3 at the Gare de l’Est lies an old concrete World War II bomb shelter. One of the busiest stations in the heart of Paris, the 19th century terminal is hiding a 120m² wartime bunker [...]
Here’s one they left out of the history textbooks. A recent French film, Free Men, brought to
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This breathtaking pool of glistening turquoise water under creamy ecclesiastical stone vaulting is
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There can be no feeling like it; uncovering a secret treasure buried in the past. A Reddit.com user
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Just hours after Adolf Hitler committed suicide on April 30th, 1945, former fashion model and Vogue
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Picture this: quite possibly the most important street photographer of the 20th century was a 1950s
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(c) Matt Green Every city has its secrets, it’s just a matter of finding them…
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The Ritz Hotel in Paris is arguably a museum in itself with all the clandestine history that went
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When she died, her husband Diego Rivera ordered her clothes be locked up for 15 years. When Diego
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Little do London tube passengers know as they travel through the maze of the underworld, what may
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There is no feeling quite like it, when you realize you’ve discovering something that’s
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Just a photograph of your average Nazi rally in Hitler Germany. Or is it? At the launch of a German
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The soundtrack of Flinstones cartoons broadcast continuously over the park’s tinny
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As a former Londoner, born & raised, who thought she knew everything there was to know about
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What if we did have superheros? What if they had been there to help us (or turn on us) when the
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You just don’t hear stories like this anymore… A painting by the French impressionist
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