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Real Mojave Desert twenty minutes from the Strip — and from October to May the scenic drive now requires a timed-entry reservation booked in advance, without which visitors are turned away at the gate.

The original Las Vegas, pedestrianised since 1995 — with a canopy screen entirely replaced in 2019, a neon cowgirl that moved indoors in 2016, and Circa, the first ground-up casino downtown since 1980.

The muster of newly embarked passengers must take place before departure or immediately upon it, not within 24 hours of boarding; the rule changed in 2015. Survival craft capacity exceeds the number of people aboard by requirement. And the medical centre manages about nineteen cases in twenty without putting anyone ashore, but nobody regulates it and it is not free.

Downtown is the part of Las Vegas that is actually in the city. The Fremont East district, Container Park, the Mob Museum in a courthouse that held a Kefauver hearing, the Neon Museum boneyard and the Arts District.

Madrid practicalities: the heat that now decides when to go, the airport and transport tickets, the low-emission zones and the trap for a foreign car, and what has arrived since.

The hanging coffins of the Yangtze gorges are attributed by the only peer-reviewed genomic study to the Bo rather than the Ba, and the surviving 131 coffins in Zigui County are dated to the Tang dynasty, around twelve hundred years old, not four thousand. The earliest securely dated hanging coffins anywhere are about 3,400 years old and lie in coastal Fujian. The belief that a higher coffin was better for the dead is recorded in a Yuan-dynasty account.

Macao is a Chinese Special Administrative Region, not a city of Portugal, and the handover was on 20 December 1999. The Historic Centre of Macao has been a World Heritage site since 2005, and the Ruins of St Paul's, St Augustine's Church and the Guia fortress are all components of it. The territory is a peninsula plus Taipa and Coloane joined by reclamation, and about two-thirds of its land did not exist a century ago. Gaming tax supplied around 85 per cent of government revenue in early 2026.

The King does not live at Buckingham Palace and will not: Clarence House stays his London home for the rest of the reign. What the palace is instead, and what the East Wing opening of 2024 made visible for the first time in 175 years.

Practicalities for Paris now: the end of paper tickets and the single regional fare, the low-emission and limited-traffic zones, the new reality of the summers, what has reopened since the Olympics and what has closed, and the shape of the city.