All about Neutral Moresnet
Neutral ...what? What was the only country in the world to have Esperanto as the national language? Neutral Moresnet. Now that the pub trivia is...
Have two countries with McDonalds ever gone to war?
Introduction Is it true that no two countries with a McDonalds have ever gone to war? No it is not true, in fact quite a...
Who is Kim Pyong Il?
Introduction Kim Pyong Il is the last surviving son of North Korean founder and President Kim Il Sung and half brother of late North Korean...
Psychedelic Socialism: LSD in Czechoslovakia
Before we get to psychedelic socialism, some context. The 1960s were a turbulent and exciting time in pop-culture, most notably in the western world. The...
How to get out of Europe during COVID
The 2020 COVID pandemic has caused most countries around the world to close off their frontiers to tourists. Typically allowing only residents and freight can...
The Romanov Empire
We here at WWW make no secret of our interest in the post-Soviet world. For the better part of a century, the legacy of the...
Visiting a Roma Gypsy Market in Bulgaria
The Balkan country of Bulgaria has no shortage of weird and wonderful things to do. From Communist UFO in Buzludzah to Black Sea party cities...
Culinary Masochism of Vikings and Koreans: An Unlikely Dynamic Duo
I admit, I went a bit far with the title in terms of comparing two very different cultures. But you know what? Sometimes people from...