St John the Evangelist, Broadclyst, sits towards the north-west of the Church Lane and Church Close side roads, at the north-west corner of the village. It is notable for its tower of the 1500s which ...

The former St Andrew Marsh Green was (and still is) located on the south side of the main lane in this small village, with the war memorial on its western flank. It is shown here half hidden by the ...

The site of the lost Mawla Old Chapel can be reached by leaving Chapel Hill by the Mawla Lane End road, which leads south-east to reach a t-junction. A gate and field lie opposite, known as Chapel ...

Gambling is a popular leisure activity in many countries. In the modern world, a vast amount of entertainment is available: original and modernized versions of various games. However, their history ...

The city of Girsu survives today as the archaeological mound of Telloh or Tello. It was located approximately twenty-five kilometres to the north-west of Lagash, but it also lies close to the modern ...

The concept of a preserved river valley park was first presented to the city of Edmonton, Alberta, in 1907 by landscape architect Frederick Gage Todd. Prior to that the river valley had been developed ...

Las Vegas is known as the world's casino capital, and it is visited by tens of millions of tourists every year. It is associated with a large number of gambling establishments, an atmosphere of ...

It was the Romans who coined the name 'Gaul' to describe the Celtic tribes of what is now France and Belgium, quite possibly based on an original form of the word 'Celt' itself (see feature link).

Aryana Vaejah (or Airyanem Vaejah) translates as the 'expanse of the Aryans'. It was part of the core homeland of the early Indo-Iranians in the late second millennium and early first millennium BC.

The area which formed Sumer started at the Persian Gulf and reached north to the 'neck' of Mesopotamia where the two rivers, the Tigris and the Euphrates meander much closer to each other. To the east ...

Sub-Roman Britannia underwent rapid change in the course of fifty years between AD 550-600. At the start of this period, the Angle and Saxon kingdoms on the east and south coasts were firmly ...