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This beautiful city in Belgium offers travelers an array of culture, good food, great views, and stunning architecture.
There are quaint bars and restaurants lining the outer edges of the town, which provide the perfect opportunity for an ...
This drone footage reveals the haunting beauty of the Douaumont Ossuary, the vast battlefields, and the tranquil Meuse River, offering a powerful contrast between nature’s renewal and the ...
"JANE the Bike” has taken on her latest cycling venture – an epic ride spanning 600km across continental Europe. Winchester woman Jane Hough, 77, is part of the way through her 31st solo cycle ride, ...
Peak of the blitzkrieg attack was at Abbeyville, a French port at the end of the Somme Bay, where the Somme river flows into the ... seized a bridge across the Meuse that had not been blown ...
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Keokuk’s treasures
On a recent two-day trip seeking Iowa history, Marion and Rich Patterson discovered that Keokuk is much like its abundant geodes: ordinary on the outside, and sparkling on the inside.
Liège is Belgium’s third largest city, which sits in the Meuse River valley, close to the German and Dutch borders. It is one of the country’s major educational hubs and boasts a large population of ...
The Italic languages had already diverged into Latin, Oscan, Umbrian and possibly Venetic – a language which, as its name ...
Aided by a week of cloud cover that grounded the Allies’ now superior air forces, German “panzer” tank divisions rolled toward the Meuse River. Beyond was the critical Belgian port of Antwerp.
Footage of the collision shot by horrified onlookers show the ship moving swiftly backwards and then striking the ...
In October, the unit took part in the Bois de Bantheville offensive and in November the offensive continued across the Meuse River. The 89th continued its advance until receiving notice that the ...