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Photo: Horse grazing at sunset
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Photograph by Farrell Grehan

A horse grazes in a mist-shrouded pasture near Swansea in southern Wales. Horse-drawn cars provided the world’s first regular passenger rail transport when Swansea was connected in 1807 to a village called The Mumbles, which became a popular resort for Victorian society.

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For 5,000 years, the purpose of this monument has remained a mystery, but archaeologists have uncovered a theory for this architectural riddle. Catch this National Geographic Channel special.
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London is a hub of culture, business, and politics—and center of the once glorious British Empire that can still throw its weight around the globe.
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Take a visual journey through Wales, a diverse land rich in Celtic history with hundreds of miles of coastline, a mountainous interior, and breathtaking pastoral beauty.
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