Antipodes

The theme of this blog post is silly, which explains why I've never mentioned it before... neither in my Antipodes blog nor even in pri...

French school-children have always heard the expression "our ancestors, the Gauls"... without knowing too much about that civiliza...

This beautiful heart-shaped map of the world was created in 1536 by a Frenchman with a funny name: Oronce Fine . I hasten to point out that,...

Whenever I see an exceptionally spectacular human creation—such as a fortress perched above sheer cliffs, for example, at the tip of a mount...