Fleur Robertson

Part of the decoration in the lobby of the Empire State Building in New York City consists of illustrations of the Seven Wonders of the World at the time of Alexander the Great. When the building was finished in 1931 it was widely hailed as the eighth wonder of the world, but students of antiquity...

Did someone say second city? Surely they can't mean Chicago!Without Chicago, the city most Americans think of as "first" wouldn't have a skyline to brag about. It wouldn't have Dick Tracy to marvel at. Its citizens couldn't solve their problems by writing to "Dear Abby." They wouldn't have a Sears...

INTRODUCTIONA great, sparkling ocean spreads out to the horizon, as it has done for millions of years. Sunlight catches the tips of the waves, reflecting in the same way that dazzled the earliest European settlers four centuries ago. But a thin ribbon of white spray on this vast sea betrays the...

Part of the decoration in the lobby of the Empire State Building in New York City consists of illustrations of the Seven Wonders of the World at the time of Alexander the Great. When the building was finished in 1931 it was widely hailed as the eighth wonder of the world, but students of...