I didn’t expect to spend a recent Sunday dodging paint bullets and getting ambushed by my friend’s 13-year-old sniper-in-training and his crew, but that’s the gamble you take when you say yes to a ...

German cars are not unusual in the Czech border town of Cheb. By day, the BMWs and Mercedes come to buy cheap cigarettes and alcohol. By 10 p.m., the shops are long shut, but the cars still arrive. A ...

CHEB, Czech Republic, Feb. 21 (UPI) -- Police in Cheb, Czech Republic, said they were investigating the disappearance of a four-ton iron bridge from a rail line. Ladislav Boehm, a police spokeswoman, ...

The town of Cheb in the Czech Republic is well known as a beautiful place, its old town square full of pastel-washed houses dating back to the eleventh century. But in recent years, it's gained a ...

I bought this copper engraving in the early 1990s. It comes from Sebastian Munster's 1550 edition of Ptolemy's 'Cosmographia'. It was probably engraved by David Kandel [1520-92]- D K on the rock? The ...