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Kansas City makes dubious claims about its fountains. Here’s why I go with the flow
Kansas City Star via Yahoo News· 4 days agoAlso uncertain is how many ancient cities feel incentivized to audit their case. In a 2006 piece...
How to spend a cultural weekend in Rome
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 3 days agoRome has been around for almost three thousand years and yet carries all that weight of history with a dolce vita lightness of heart. It’s a city that...
Tracing the Long, Winding Path of an Ancient Roman Aqueduct
New York Times· 6 days agoIt was a dazzling January morning, and I was standing in the Park of the Aqueducts, about 20 minutes...
Could You Afford a Vacation Home in Portugal? Check Out the Prices in These 7 Cities
GOBankingRates via Yahoo Finance· 2 days agoPortugal, a favorite destination for vacationers from all over the world, is home to white-sand...
Europe’s greatest bus routes for sightseeing (which locals don’t want you to know about)
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 2 days agoIt’s an unavoidable sight: across Europe, almost all major cities have a competing network of...
World Password Day: A Reminder We're Still Using Crackable Tech
CNET· 1 day agoThe use of passwords dates back to antiquity, but cybersecurity experts have long pushed for their...
The odiferous unpleasantries of the ancient world
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner· 1 day agoWhat do the golden belly hairs of the gods smell like? Beats me, but I do know that Pythagoras hated beans after reading “Meet Pythagoras: Mathematician, Philosopher, and Bean Hater,” an article ...
American Gods | Magazine | The Harvard Crimson
The Harvard Crimson· 10 hours agoIn Disney’s version of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians,” the Empire State Building is the tallest building in New York. This is no longer true in real...
Don Wooten: A look at the Hamas-Israeli War and Middle East history
Quad-City Times· 2 days agoPro-Palestinian movements are increasing on college campuses, to the point where the University of...
Experts Say This is The #1 Worst Year in Human History
Cheapism via AOL· 4 days agoWhile the years of the pandemic have been difficult for many, there are other years that compete for...
