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From crumbling fortresses and mountain battlefields to rusty gun emplacements and skeletal ships, there are ghostly reminders ...
One of the highest visibility classical music contests in the world, the Cliburn has been held quadrennially in Fort Worth ...
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18th-century brass eagle.
The Lublin Voivodeship Conservator of Monuments has announced a remarkable discovery, i.e., a mysterious and elite brass eagle badge dating back to a pivotal period in Poland’s fight for freedom.
In a short span of time, immigrants flooded Hamtramck, a blue-collar town fully within Detroit's borders. And things would ...
A species that was hunted to local extinction made a comeback on its historical range, scientists who witnessed the ...
LONDON -- The British government is to rollout the use of medication to suppress the sex drive of sex offenders, as part of a package of measures to reduce the risk of reoffending and alleviate the ...
It cross-bred and reproduced in 19th-century Poland, leading to the gradual emergence of smaller domestic cats. Over the centuries, cats have secured a significant place in human settlements ...
Kehlmann's "The Director" is a story of artistic compromise. Some of its scenes are inspired by his father's life under ...
The Catholic leaders of Leo’s hometown hold out hope that the new pope can help turn around ailing finances and a shortage of ...
The atmosphere was that of a 'shadow-realm Coney Island where the only prize is the grim certainty that the end is nigh,' ...