stackyFACTSIf you were a young, wealthy male hundreds of years ago, you were forcefully shipped off for months of cultural exposure. This mandatory roaming was designed to polish rough youths with foreign music, literature, and fencing. Mostly, they just squandered vast fortunes trying to look highly sophisticated.
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Forget online reviews. In the late 1700s, early Grand Tour travelers like Thomas Manning and William Bray functioned as an elite, painfully slow gossip…
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The modern vacation industry was essentially launched by a guy trying to keep people sober. Thomas Cook organized the first official group excursion in 1841…
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Long before you could watch high-definition walking tours on YouTube, Victorians who lacked the funds to board a ship simply stayed home and read heavily…
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That fun little glass cylinder is exploiting a legal loophole. To avoid complicated regional regulations involving the promotion of harsh liquor,…
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Imagine your entire career being a relentless, lifelong battle against Daylight Saving Time. The British monarchy literally employs a full-time horological…
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Stonehenge rocks were famously dragged from Wales, but tourists rarely know this highly controversial secret.
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