The academic year 1996 started turbulently and restlessly. Even before September 1st, it was unclear whether students would have lessons with teachers – ultimatums were even heard. Higher education institutions…
Kaunas City Museum’s Kaunas History Department museologist, historian, PhD Gediminas Kasparavičius has published his second book related to the largest river in Lithuania…
People come to this place for the Baltic Sea, long white sandy beaches, and tranquility. However, just a few kilometers from the popular Polish resort, under a dense forest, lies a completely…
An incident that occurred near Vilnius 30 years ago entered the US intelligence archives and was classified. Only after several years was a report about an unidentified flying object (UFO)…
Archaeologists in one of the most famous parks in Warsaw have discovered the remains of an 18th-century “pyramid” built for the last king of Poland. The unusual structure has been…
In the mid-17th century, in the present-day Pien area (Poland), a young woman was buried under unclear circumstances. When archaeologists in 2022 – more than 300 years later – discovered…
Next week in Klaipėda, a new initiative “Klaipėda’s Red Brick Stories” will be presented, inviting you to look at the old city architecture not only as buildings, but as…
In 1987, a small amount of cesium (Cs-137) was stolen from an abandoned cancer treatment clinic in Brazil. This crime ended in a painful tragedy, which showed how dangerous…
Jos centre – a personal item of Bishop Motiejus Valančius, symbolically returned to its owner’s homeland after more than a century – a 19th-century handmade velvet shoe. Read more Vilnius becomes a literary scene: «Book Square» will invite to three city spaces this year The pontifical sandal and silk stocking were part of the bishop’s…
This is the journey of Padure Manor (Padures muiža) through two centuries. Calling and the Golden Age: A Scottish Dream in the Vastness of Courland It all began in the fourth decade of the 19th century when John Lewis Balfour, a Riga merchant of Scottish descent, fell in love with this landscape and decided to…