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It’s one of the most popular and iconic songs of the Christmas season. There’s an interesting story behind the creation of Silent Night, Holy Night, celebrated each Christmas Eve in the tiny chapel in the Austrian Alps where it was first performed 202 years ago, on Christmas Eve 1818. The village is Oberndorf, near Salzburg.
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Eight buildings by Frank Lloyd Wright have been added to the UNESCO World Heritage List, joining the Sydney Opera House, the city of Brasilia, and the Bauhaus School in Germany as modern architecture recognized as cultural icons. The new World Heritage Site designation, entitled “The 20th-Century Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright,” includes the Guggenheim Museum,
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Sustainability is good for the environment and good for business, including for hotels and resorts, especially one located inside a protected UNESCO biosphere preserve in The Maldives, in the Indian Ocean. The island nation is known for its beautiful sunsets and scenery, including clear turquoise waters and coral reefs for snorkeling, scuba diving and other
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UNESCO has added 23 new Biosphere Reserves sites around the world, including four that straddle national boundaries, plus enlarging eleven others. Biospheres protect endangered environments, at the same time they are learning places for the sustainable use of natural resources. New and extended Biosphere Reserves are in every part of the world, from Europe and
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