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Wieliczka Salt Mine – A UNESCO World Heritage Site

August 23, 2022

Due to falling salt prices and mine flooding, commercial salt mining was discontinued in 1996. The Wieliczka Salt Mine is now an official Polish Historic Monument (Pomnik Historii) and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Its attractions include the shafts and labyrinthine passageways, displays of historic salt-mining technology, an underground lake, four chapels and numerous…

Reviver of Buddhism in India – Alexander Cunningham

August 23, 2022

archeology·History·People

Early life and career Cunningham was born in London in 1814 to the Scottish poet Allan Cunningham (1784–1842) and his wife Jean née Walker (1791–1864). Along with his older brother, Joseph, he received his early education at Christ’s Hospital, London. Through the influence of Sir Walter Scott, both Joseph and…

The Most Beautiful Suicide – Evelyn Mchale

August 22, 2022

Cover Story·Lifestyle

Evelyn McHale was an American bookkeeper who killed herself by jumping from the 86th floor Observation Deck of the Empire State Building on May 1, 1947. A photograph taken four minutes after her death by photography student Robert Wiles has become an iconic suicide photograph, referred to as “the most…

Artistic Photo Gallery

June 7, 2019

Photography

Art fairs and photography festivals provide you with an opportunity to experience classic works of art, while exploring new, emerging art forms and styles as well. They introduce you to a new breed of artist, sharing their art alongside the great masters of the past. Here is a list of…

Photo Realistic Paintings by Imam Malik

September 18, 2018

Arts

Boy the way Glen Miller played, songs that made the hit parade. Guys like us we had it made, those were the days. And you knew who you were then, girls were girls and men were men. Mister, we could use a man like Herbert Hoover again. Didn’t need no…