T his week, our two countries celebrate national holidays. Canada’s was July 1 and is called simply Canada Day. It used to be known as Dominion Day but that had a bit too much of a whiff of ...

Generations of Germans believe Frederick the Great brought the beloved potato to Germany. But the legend, which includes ...

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Frederick William II (1744 - 1797) was from 1786 King of Prussia, Margrave of Brandenburg, and elector the Holy Roman Empire. Woodcut engraving after a painting (1793) by Johann Heinrich Schröder ...

But their heyday was in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries, when having one became almost a requirement for a French, English or German king. Elephant and Castle From the early 1500s, mistresses were ...