Dover is a town and major ferry port in Kent, South East England, known for its surrounding chalk cliffs, the White Cliffs of Dover. In 1844, South Eastern Railway established a railway line that connected Dover to London.
Moelfre comprises a village, harbor, and small settlements on the northeastern coast of the Isle of Anglesey in Wales. The harbor was formerly a center for local fishing; a lifeboat station has been based here since 1854.
Chernyakhovsk, known as Insterburg prior to 1946, is a town in the Chernyakhovsky District in Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia. It became part of the Kingdom of Prussia in 1701, and of the German Empire in 1871.
The Cocos (or Keeling) Islands is an Australian external territory in the Indian Ocean, comprising of twenty-seven coral islands, of which only two are inhabited by humans, located approximately midway between Australia
Laki is a volcanic fissure in southern Iceland, which erupted between June 1783 and February 1784, pouring out 42 billion tons of basalt lava and clouds of poisonous hydrofluoric acid and sulfur dioxide compounds.
Connecticut is the southernmost state in New England, a region in the northeast of the USA. The song “Yankee Doodle” is the state’s anthem, and Hartford is its capital. Connecticut was on the thirteen original American colonies.
The Druwé Fund at the University of Leuven has supported the creation of annotated novels by Anthony Trollope and Elizabeth Riddell (US$1,000 per edition).