ZAGREB: A CULTURAL AND LITERARY HISTORY book by Celia Hawkesworth, Foreword by Sonia Wild Bićanić:

Situated at the foot of a range of hills on the edge of the great Pannonian Plain, for most of its history Zagreb has been a small town to which things happened. Administered from 1102 by Hungary and later absorbed into the Habsburg Monarchy, Zagreb was under threat from the advancing Ottomans until the late sixteenth century. In 1918 the Croatian lands joined their immediate South Slav neighbours in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, later renamed Yugoslavia. Following Yugoslavia’s violent collapse, in 1991 Zagreb became the capital city of the new independent Croatia.

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While Argentina has had its problems this year, with the campoblocking roads and now the drought, the nation nonetheless received good economic news yesterday.According to the Clarín, 7.039 million dollars in exports left the country during the month of July, setting a new record.Additionally, purchase within the nation were valued at around six billion dollars, making the country’s commercial surplus around one billion dollars.These statistics were announced yesterday by the Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos (National Institute of Statistics and Censuses) and show that international sales have risen 53 percent since July of last year.For anyone investing in the Argentine economy, these statistics seems like good news indeed.

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When you visit Delhi, you will find many monuments and forts of another era. Many Delhi tourist attractions were erected in the heyday of the Mughal empire. When you visit these monuments, you will feel as though you are caught in a time warp, back to an age long gone.

Some of the well-known Delhi tourist attractions include the Red Fort, Jama Masjid, Humayun’s Old Fort, Jantar-Mantar, Qutub Minar, Gurudwara Raquab Ganj and Shish Ganj, and a number of other monuments. Lutyens’ Delhi is the capital’s power centre – the seat of the government of India. Visitors are amazed at the beauty of the architecture and the imagination of the architect who thought of developing the area, as a symbol of British power. You’ll also find great Delhi tourist attractions in this area, including Rashtrapati Bhawan, Sansad Bhawan and India Gate.

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March 28th, 2008 by susan j

Iolani Palace photo uploaded by digitonin

As an island out in the Pacific, Hawaii has a history and culture that are drastically different from the rest of the United States. Hawaii is one of only three U.S. states that were indepedent before joining (or being annexed by) the United States. It’s also the home to the only official state residence of royalty in the United States.

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Vienna, the capital of Austria, and its largest city, is famous for its long artistic traditions, and cultural sophistication, being particularly highly regarded for its music, theater and opera. Vienna has long been regarded as being the capital of European classical music, with such great names as Mozart, Beethoven and Strauss having associations with the city.

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