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The Royal Tourist: Queen Elizabeth visits New York City; most notably takes a stroll through Bloomingdale’s

New Yorkers greet the Queen with a tickertape parade in 1957. Courtesy jeffs4653/Flickr What do you buy a queen on

Fifty-eight years ago today, the headquarters for the United Nations officially move from their temporary offices in Lake Success to

Pope John Paul greets the crowds at Yankee Stadium Welcome Benedict! I’m not Catholic, but I do love a good

(Secretariat Tower, in a dazzling light show during a special session on the international HIV/AIDS crisis.) It’s the only area