18 March 2026 | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union | Category: General
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Laon is a city in the
Aisne department in
Hauts-de-France in northern
France . It is the
prefecture of the Aisne department, known for the gothic
Laon Cathedral .
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17 March 2026 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Category: General , Greater Los Angeles Area , Universities, Colleges, Academies
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Silicon Beach is the
Westside region of the
Los Angeles metropolitan area that is home to more than 500 technology companies, including
startups . It is particularly applied to the coastal strip from
Los Angeles International Airport north to the
Santa Monica Mountains , but the term may be applied loosely or
colloquially to most anywhere in the
Los Angeles Basin . Startups seeded here include
Snapchat and
Tinder . Major technology companies that opened offices in the region including
Google ,
Yahoo! ,
YouTube ,
BuzzFeed ,
Facebook ,
Salesforce ,
AOL ,
Electronic Arts ,
Roku ,
Sony ,
EdgeCast Networks ,
MySpace ,
Amazon.com ,
Apple, Inc. , and
Netflix . By some 2012 metrics, the region was the second or third-most prominent technology hub in the world.
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16 March 2026 | Author/Destination: North Africa / Nordafrika | Category: General
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Port El Kantaoui is a tourist complex 10 kilometres north of
Sousse city in central
Tunisia . It was built in 1979 specifically as a tourist center, around a large artificial harbour that provides mooring with 340 berths for luxury yachts, hosting sporting activities from water skiing to paragliding, and several golf courses.
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15 March 2026 | Author/Destination: Around the World / Rund um die Welt | Category: General , Bon appétit
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Kofta is a family of
meatball or
meatloaf dishes found in
South Asian ,
Central Asian ,
Balkan ,
Middle Eastern ,
North African , and
South Caucasian cuisines. In the simplest form, koftas consist of balls of
minced meat —usually beef, chicken, lamb or mutton, camel, seldom pork, or a mixture—mixed with spices and sometimes other ingredients. The earliest known recipes are found in early Turkish cookbooks and call for ground lamb.
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14 March 2026 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Category: General , Palaces, Castles, Manors, Parks
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The Butchart Gardens is a floral display
garden in
Brentwood Bay ,
British Columbia ,
Canada , located near
Victoria on
Vancouver Island . The gardens receive over a million visitors each year. The gardens have been designated a
National Historic Site of Canada .
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13 March 2026 | Author/Destination: Levant / Levante | Category: General , Opera Houses, Theaters, Libraries , Union for the Mediterranean
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The Habima Theatre (
Hebrew : Te’atron HaBima, lit. “The Stage Theatre”) is the
national theatre of
Israel and one of the first
Hebrew language theatres. It is located in
Habima Square in the center of
Tel Aviv .
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12 March 2026 | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union | Category: General
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Cartagena is a city in the
Region of Murcia in
Spain . As of 2024, with a population of 219,235, it is the
2nd-largest city in Murcia and the
25th-largest in Spain . The city lies in a natural harbour of the
Mediterranean coastline of the southeast of the
Iberian Peninsula . The wider urban or metropolitan area of Cartagena, known as
Campo de Cartagena , has a population of 409,586 inhabitants.
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11 March 2026 | Author/Destination: Gulf States / Golfstaaten | Category: General , Palaces, Castles, Manors, Parks , UNESCO World Heritage
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In
garden design , Persian garden or Iranian garden is a style of “
landscape ”
garden which emerged in the
Achaemenid Empire . Nine historical gardens, all of them in
Iran , have been inscribed in
UNESCO ‘s
World Heritage Sites as
The Persian Garden since 2011.
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10 March 2026 | Author/Destination: South America / Südamerika | Category: General , Bon voyage
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American Capital of Culture
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The
non-governmental organization American Capital of Culture selects one city or state in the
Americas annually to serve as the American Capital of Culture for a period of one year. The organization’s leaders claim the initiative is based closely on the
European Capital of Culture program; it enjoys the backing of the
Organization of American States , but the OAS is not involved in the selection process.
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