BBC World Histories - 08.2019 - 09.2019

80 CULTURE Agenda Agenda EXHIBITIONS, TV, FILMS AND MORE ИЗП ОДГ ОТО ВИЛ АГР УПП А "What's News" VK.COM/WSNWS ...

81 APPETITE FOR ART When Vesuvius destroyed Pompeii in AD 79, killing at least 1,000 people, it froze our perception of the city ...

82 ROOT OF THE TROUBLES In mid-August 1969, political and sectarian tensions in Northern Ireland flared up into full-scale viole ...

83 FROM GRAFFITI TO GIOTTO If you’re wondering why hip-hop pioneer Fab 5 Freddy – memorably namechecked in Blondie’s 1980 song ‘ ...

Daniel Rey traces the South American patriot leader’s arduous 1819 expedition across flooded grasslands and freezing Andes 84 In ...

85 SHUTTERSTOCK The páramo (high plateau) of the eastern Colombian Andes. Traversing this harsh environment, many of Bolívar’s t ...

86 JOURNEYS In the footsteps of Simón Bolívar’s campaign to liberate Colombia wo hundred years ago, Simón Bolívar set out from V ...

87 Æ ILLUSTRATION BY THERESA GRIEBEN 26 May 1819 Bolívar’s army sets off west from Mantecal, Venezuela, towards the border with ...

88 Before setting off, Bolívar drafted a quick note to his sister, Juana. “We march now for Barinas,” he wrote, in case the lett ...

89 Æ SHUTTERSTOCK/DREAMSTIME/BRIDGEMAN Boyacá Bridge, 70 miles north-east of Bogotá, site of the pivotal battle between Bolívar’ ...

90 Daniel Rey is a British-Colombian writer and historian for Bolívar, but his army was severely exhausted and undernourished. F ...

91 Issue 17 – August/September 2019 BBC World Histories is published by Immediate Media Company Bristol Limited under licence fr ...

92 JOURNEYS angon’s beating heart is the Shwedagon Pagoda, the holiest temple in all Myanmar (Burma), one of the most fervently ...

93 a downtown with domes and pillars that wouldn’t look out of place in London. Today, Yangon’s collection of colonial-era build ...

94 JOURNEYS Wonders of the World SHUTTERSTOCK Lalibela, Ethiopia Wonders of the World ИЗП ОДГ ОТО ВИЛ АГР УПП А "What's News" VK ...

95 Cross of St George The cruciform Bet Giyorgis (House of St George) is the most photogenic of the 11 churches and chapels hewn ...

JOURNEYS Wonders of the World 96 Stone saint A life-sized apostle is carved into a niche in the walls of Bet Golgotha, which con ...

97 Paul Bloomfield is a travel and heritage writer and photographer, co-author of Lonely Planet’s ALAMY/AWL/SHUTTERSTOCKROBERT H ...

98 Yi Chen is curator of early Chinese collections at the British Museum, London MUSEUM OF THE WORLD Global history’s finest obj ...

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