Sometimes an entire neighborhood is a sight in and of itself
Sometimes an entire neighborhood is a sight in and of itself
Spend a day in Greenwich, a Thameside village on London's eastern outskirts by which the world sets it clocks, with a rich maritime history, stellar little museums, and the Prime Meridian
A bustling plaza of buskers, tourists, theatre-goers, and pub crawlers at the heart of London's West End
London's old Bohemian neighborhood is firmly in the tourist and nightlife zone now, but still packed with great cheap eateries
On August 27, 1896, Britain declared war on its protectorate Zanzibar, where a pretender to the Sultanate had just siezed power.
At 9:02am, British ships in the habor began shelling the would-be Sultan's palace.
By 9:40, the shelling had stopped, the palace was on fire, and the pretender's flag had been cut down.
At 38 minutes, the Anglo-Zanzibar War remains the shortest war on record.
Some 500 Zanzibaris were killed.
One British Petty Officer was wounded.