Founded in 1693 as a gold-mining camp, CURITIBA was of little importance until 1853 when it was made capital of Paran·. Since then, the city's population has steadily risen from a few thousand, reaching 140,000 in 1940 and some 1.5 million...
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GLASGOW 's earliest history, like so much else in this surprisingly romantic city, is obscured in a swirl of myth. The city's name is said to derive from the Celtic Glas-cu , which loosely translates as the dear, green place -...
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HANNIBAL might well have been just another medium-sized river settlement, had not Samuel Langhorne Clemens, who renamed himself Mark Twain after the cry of pilots on the Mississippi, spent his boyhood here. Although Hannibal does have...
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