Art Prints

Buckingham Palace revealed that Queen Victoria regularly enjoyed a slice with tea every afternoon. The quintessential English teatime treat of a tw...

Studies prove that marriage does more to promote life satisfaction than money, sex, or even children. Compared to singles, married people also accu...

The stork is seen as a symbol of good luck. They had a tendency to nest on people’s roofs and chimneys and it was believed that storks on the roof ...

Magic is a subject of fascination even for the British monarch. The most famous member of the Magic Circle is in fact Prince Charles who joined the...

The All Seeing Eye is a reminder that every action and thought is observed by God. The square beneath reminds each Freemason to ‘square [their] act...

Often people battle to eat sushi with their chopsticks, but in fact traditionally, although this would be correct eating sashimi (slices of raw fis...

Measuring 126 square miles (326.5 km2), Nagoya is Japan's fourth largest incorporated city. Some argue the origins of the city name stemming from t...

Measuring 375 square miles (972 km2), the capital of the United Arab Emirates enjoys 360 days of sunny weather annually. The main official language...

Dubai measures 1,588 square miles (4,114 km2) and is home to the tallest building in the world, the Burj Khalifa measuring 828m. Every year at leas...

St Petersburg measures 556 square miles (1,439 km2) and home to one of the deepest subways in the world (the deepest station is Admiralteyskaya pos...

Munich is home to one of the oldest cinemas in the world - the Neues Kino Gabriel which has been running since 1906. Munich is also home to over 60...

Osaka prefecture measures 735 square miles (1,905 km2). Based in the Kansai region, it is the third largest city in Japan and was and was once the ...

Amsterdam measures 85 square miles (219 km2) and in 2012, was ranked the second best city to live in by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). Many...

Rotterdam is the second-largest city of the Netherlands, behind Amsterdam, measuring 125 square miles (325 km2). It is known for its Erasmus Univer...

Hamburg measures 291 square miles (755.22 km2). Opening in 1678, the city is home to the oldest opera house in Germany. Unknown to many, the Beatle...

Tokyo measures 847 square miles (2,194 km2), with around 14 million residents. It is the most populous prefecture of Japan, and home to Shinjuku st...

Berlin measures 344 square miles (891 km2) which is over 9 times the size of Paris. Home to 9 castles, 3 opera houses, 180 museums and over 150 the...

The town was founded around 250 BC by the Parisii - a sub tribe of the Celtic Senones. 987 AD the city became the capital of France. Initially with...

The blooming of cherry blossoms, is a symbol of purity as well as a reminder to fully enjoy and cherish each moment. Pattern from an antique Japane...

Charles John Huffam Dickens (1812-1870), a social critic, and considered by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. He also set up “Ura...

Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936), English journalist, short-story writer, poet and novelist, is best known for writing the Jungle Book which was ...

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doylet (1859-1930), British medical doctor and prolific writer, is namely recognised for his character Sherlock Holmes wh...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) creating over 600 musical works spanning from chamber music to opera and symphonies, he is recognised as one of...

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874-1965) is famous for his inspiring speeches and serving as Prime Minister of Great Britain. He wrote a n...

It is said that the longest sentence published in literature belongs to Victor Hugo from Les Misérables where there is a sentence which is 823 word...

The world’s first full-length novel is said to be the Tale of Genji written by the Japanese noblewoman Murasaki Shikibu around 1000 A.D, who served...

Released 15th February 1950, the film Cinderella was a huge gamble for the Disney studio that was heavily in debt and was their last ditch effort t...

Illustration by draughtsman and print maker Jean Bernard (1732-1797). According to a study, cats typically sleep between 12 to 16 hours every day, ...

Masks help in reducing the spread of infectious disease by catching microbes expelled by the wearer. Through sneezing, large droplets can travel as...

The average golfer has a 12,500 to 1 chance of making a hole-in-one. Tiger Woods made his first hole-in-one at the age of eight. He has gone on to ...