My father has always had an interest in Inuit art, but he took me by surprise one day when he suggested we pay a visit to Canada’s far north. His initial motivation in going there was to see the Inuit stone carvings. Later, however, he became more and more curious about the Inuit culture in [...]
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What are we? Where are we from? Where do we go?
Paul Gauguin (1897)
People study history because of some hidden motivations. Perhaps the more important is to know better what role we play in the world. Of the tree classical questions above, history has the potential to answer partially at least two of them: “what are [...]
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Standing in my room in the attic, I look through the window at a hill ten kilometres away. There is nothing special on it except for the ruins of an old stone and mud-mortar fortress. There, the Inca soldiers dominated all of the valley of Santiago, Chile, ensuring that the trade routes were free from [...]
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[This article first appeared on the site Ingebretsen's Scandinavian Gifts at http://www.ingebretsens.com/. Thank you to Molly Ingebretsen for permission to use]
One of the most recognized and familiar examples of Norwegian history and culture is the stave church (”stavkirke”). Unique to Norway, they are medieval yet elegant symbols of Christianity’s initial foothold into a country [...]
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A New World city with Old World charm.
A slice of Europe in North America.
These are some of the descriptions given to Quebec City, Canada. Every year, thousands of tourists flock to the municipality and surrounding area to see the historic buildings and monuments, make a pilgrimage to the basilica of Ste-Anne-de-Beaupré, or enjoy events like [...]
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On February 12, 1541, Spanish explorer and conquistador Pedro de Valdivia founded the City of Santiago (Chile) of the New Extreme. Valdivia named this city in honour of the worshiped military protector of the Spaniards during their fight for independence from Moorish dominion. But Santiago also accompanied the Spaniards to the New World, an enterprise [...]
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