Flushing was achieved manually. Residents would pour water from jars or pitchers into the toilet chute to flush away waste, an effective and hygienic method given the climate and available materials.

There’s always a guy like Harold. We’ve now entered the summer travel season, when you can take a package bus tour to Paris.

There are many family-friendly events at National Trust properties through its ‘Summer of Play’ initiatives, and you may also ...

Beneath technicolour cedarwood ceilings, maps show Moroccan empires that once encompassed nearly the entire Iberian peninsula, Tunis and Nouakchott, now the capital of Mauretania, and how the city’s ...

It's not like he's short of choice. Sir Rod has one of the all-time classic songbooks, from early hits with the Faces such as ...

The resort has three stunning pools that enhance the sense of being immersed in nature. In the guest rooms, lights are controlled by timers that detect when a guest leaves, returns, or goes to sleep, ...

One Golden Summer is a follow-up to Carley Fortune's debut book Every Summer After and tells the story of Alice, a ...

Lately I’ve been feeling like I need to add a little more whimsy into my life. Between the delayed start to summer weather in Chicago, my general feelings of being exhausted (special shout-out to my 5 ...

It made us laugh. But more importantly, we knew it would’ve made our dad laugh. For most of his life (or at least as long as ...

For 985 days, Reed was held in a series of Russian prisons, thrown in isolation cells as small as a closet for 23 hours a day, placed in a psychiatric ward and sent to a forced labor camp he ...