Utopia to blight: Surviving in Henry Ford’s lost jungle town. ... according to federal attorneys, has for more than 30 years ignored pleas to endow the town with historical protections.

In Search of Utopia at M-Museum, Leuven and Utopia & More at the University Library, Leuven are both on show until 17th January 2017. Portrait of Thomas More, c1527 by Hans Holbein the Younger ...

Remember Sir Thomas More in HBO’s “The Tudors”? The good guy who had his head chopped off by Henry VIII for challenging the king’s will? This scholar wrote a philosophical tale about an ...

In the end, Ford's utopia failed. Fordlandia's residents, ever in hope their patriarch would someday visit their Midwestern industrial town in the middle of the jungle, gave up and left.

One detail from Sir Thomas More’s Utopia stuck with me after reading it long ago, and it’s come to mind with some regularity over the past few months: on More’s imaginary island, anyone who aspired to ...

IT WAS meant as a joke, of sorts. Even the title of Thomas More’s “Utopia”, which was published 500 years ago this month, was composed with the author's tongue in his cheek: a Greek pun on ...

Just before Henry's 13th birthday, his mother Mary died leaving him bereft. He later restored his childhood home in her honour, replicating exactly how it looked when she passed away in 1876.

More than 70 years later, in the spring of 2016, a young judge named Domingos Moutinho accompanied his wife on a work trip to the nearby gold-mining town of Itaituba.

The first settlement deep in the Amazon rainforest to have running water and electricity. The first to treat patients in a modern hospital. The first to build a swimming pool, a cinema, street lamps — ...