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Our roving continental correspondent Alexander Shaw recently hitchhiked from Florence to London on a mere twenty euros. Herein he recounts his tale, which in his customary fashion is usually calculated to offend. (Readers are reminded that the writer...

He came from poverty and wasn’t expected to go much further than the small village in Co. Limerick where he was raised, but Michael Dowling, president and CEO of Northwell Health, never stopped dreaming and never stopped believing. His life story is...

August 24 In History 410: The Visigoths under Alaric begin to pillage Rome for three days. According to tradition, the treasures of the Temples taken by the Romans in 70 now fell into his hands.  The Visigoths would move and by the start of the 8th...

CENTRAL EUROPE from Berlin to Zagreb - Leipzig, Germany Leipzig, Germany CENTRAL EUROPE First part: DRESDEN and LEIPZIG This has been my seventh journey in Europe during the last 16th months. I took a low cost flight with Ryanair from Milan to Prague...

On this day in history… December 27 1825 – 1st public railway using steam locomotive completed in England between Stockton and Darlington 1831 – HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin departs England for South America 1871 – World’s first cat show (Crystal Palace...