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Virginia: Preservation Virginia's 2024 top 10 list, most endangered historic places
The Progress-Index via Yahoo News· 2 hours agoThe program has a track record of success. Only 10% of the sites listed so far have been lost to...
Legendary treasure belonging to 18th-century conman discovered
CBS News via Yahoo News· 22 hours agoThe coins will be analyzed more thoroughly this year, but as heritage officials and explorers...
Suddenly There Aren’t Enough Babies. The Whole World Is Alarmed.
The Wall Street Journal· 2 days agoIn high-income nations, fertility fell below replacement in the 1970s, and took a leg down during...
Volunteers re-chalk iconic horse figure
BBC via Yahoo News· 3 days agoThe Cherhill White Horse, south of the village of Cherhill near Caln, was given a makeover on Saturday morning. The 18th century landscape is owned and...
How This Caribbean-Born Artist Became the Toast of 18th-Century France
Smithsonian Magazine· 23 hours agoBorn to a formerly enslaved mother in Guadeloupe, Guillaume Lethière (1760-1832) moved to Paris as a...
Dan Snyder Couldn’t Sell His $35 Million Mansion. So He Gave It Away.
The Wall Street Journal· 6 days agoSnyder hadn’t found a buyer. He and his wife, Tanya Snyder, had donated the house to charity. Now...
For a Year, I Lived as the Constitution Instructs. Here’s What I Learned.
Slate via Yahoo News· 6 days agoThis is part of How Originalism Ate the Law, a Slate series about the legal theory that ruined...
What the Methodist split tells us about America
Vox· 5 hours agoLast week, hundreds of United Methodist Church (UMC) delegates from around the world sat down to vote on whether or not to reverse a longstanding ban on...
Fire at 18th Century pub leaves owner stunned
BBC via Yahoo News· 4 days agoMore than a dozen firefighters have tackled a fire at an 18th Century pub in Warwickshire. Three fire engines were sent to The Cottage Inn on Black Hall...
Countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo On Training, Technique and Radical Operatic Expression
The New York Observer· 2 hours agoOver a busy three-decade career, Anthony Roth Costanzo moved from singing in Broadway shows as a boy...
