Cheesecake's origins are uncertain, but ancient Greeks made cheese-filled cakes, and the Greek plakous was a layered cake soaked in honey and eaten at the end of a meal. Romans offered cheese cakes to their gods, and Cato the Elder recorded a recipe for libum, made from cheese, flour and egg. Soft-cheese tarts appear in English records by 1265, and the first recipe turns up in the 1390 cookbook Forme of Cury. The English name cheesecake emerged in the 15th century, and many later dishes under that name had no cheese at all. The modern cream-cheese version took shape after 1872, when William Lawrence of New York tried to recreate the French Neufchâtel and produced a creamy unripened cheese.

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Angkor, near Siem Reap in northern Cambodia, was the capital of the Khmer Empire, which ruled much of mainland Southeast Asia between roughly the 9th and 15th centuries. At its height the city spread across about 3,000 square kilometres, making it the largest pre-industrial city on Earth by area. Its growth depended on water: huge reservoirs called barays, along with canals and embankments, stored monsoon rain and carried it to rice fields. That system let farmers harvest more than once a year and fed a very large population through the dry season. The temple complex of Angkor Wat, built in the early 12th century, is the best-known monument and still stands at the heart of the park.