At Berta Fanta’s salon on Prague’s Old Town Square, Albert Einstein and Franz Kafka belonged to the same German-speaking intellectual circle. The White Unicorn house gives that connection a documented address.
In 1913, Freud worked from Berggasse 19 while Trotsky, Stalin and Hitler were also in Vienna at different points. Their shared city does not establish a meeting; this story marks documented places and keeps their very different histories apart.
The original Cavendish Laboratory on Free School Lane brought experimental physicists together under Ernest Rutherford. Its documented 1920s work is the focus, without borrowing discoveries made in 1932.
What happened to the Twelve after Jesus? The evidence is uneven: Acts follows a few apostles closely, early Christian writers preserve several strong memories, and later churches tell traditions that often disagree. This trace maps one meaningful place for each apostle, including Matthias in place of Judas Iscariot, while keeping documented history separate from tradition.
Follow Christopher Columbus from a documented family home in Genoa through the negotiations, ports and Atlantic crossings that transformed his life—and the world. This trace does not present him as the person who “discovered America”: Indigenous peoples had inhabited the Americas for millennia, and a Norse settlement at L’Anse aux Meadows predates 1492 by almost five centuries. Instead, it follows the places where Columbus’s westward project became a lasting connection between Europe and the Americas, while confronting the conquest, forced labour, enslavement and demographic catastrophe that followed. Several exact sites remain disputed; each such stop is marked as a traditional, commemorative or archaeological identification rather than a certainty.
Follow Titanic from the Belfast shipyard through her final fitting-out, sea trials and maiden-voyage calls to the collision, sinking and Carpathia rescue. The open-ocean markers distinguish an approximate collision area, the position transmitted in distress calls and the wreck coordinates established decades later.
1911
Staroměstské náměstí 17, Prague, Czechia
Berta Fanta hosted discussions at the White Unicorn house on Old Town Square. Prague City Tourism identifies both Einstein and Kafka with the salon; Einstein also played violin there. Einstein taught in Prague in 1911–12. The present building’s interiors were reconstructed after a fire in 1945, so the pin marks the historic house rather than an intact 1911 room.
