Art, Culture & Media

10+ hour, 21+ min ago   (13+ words) Inside One of the Gilded Age’s Grandest Mansions | Inside History | Architectural Digest YouTube...

3+ hour, 38+ min ago   (525+ words) Amid rapid urban modernization and renewal, developing and protecting historic cities have never been at odds. Heritage protection should work in step with how cities develop and better fit modern life, experts and officials said at a parallel session of…...

3+ hour, 59+ min ago   (666+ words) Alabama groups speak out regarding University of Mississippi deaths Injury report for Alabama football ahead of rematch against Florida State UA trustees advance plans for $88 million South Campus recreation center The Bee Shop makes clothing for students, college life How…...

4+ hour, 7+ min ago   (852+ words) We offer for the first time the book Babyn Yar: History and Memory in eBook format. A ravine on the outskirts of Kyiv on September 29-30, 1941, was witness to one of the great atrocities of the Holocaust. There, over a two-day…...

6+ hour, 7+ min ago   (1688+ words) By the 1800s, as Lower Manhattan expanded into the water through landfilling, Stone Street became increasingly commercial. As retail activity grew along the corridor, the Common Council approved petitions in 1811 to widen Stone Street by about four feet. After the Great…...

7+ hour, 28+ min ago   (21+ words) bam.org The History of Concrete YOU MIGHT ALSO ENJOY You Can See Everything Ken Russell’s The Devils...

7+ hour, 21+ min ago   (1279+ words) The McIlvaine barn in Lancaster County was built in 1817 and is a double decker. A bridge connects the ramp to the wagon bays on the top level, which is flanked by two sinkmows. Underneath is a granary and below that…...

8+ hour, 30+ min ago   (1342+ words) Dailynewsegypt Official accounts trace the word Korba to La Courbe—a reference to the sharp bend taken by the Heliopolis tramway along what is now Baghdad Street, where the Belgian tram conductor would call out, ‘Attention, la courbe!’ Locals offer…...

7+ hour, 37+ min ago   (260+ words) New book shines light on world's largest Khachkar Cemetery. Kara-Mian will present his new book, Eternal Armenia: Khatchkars – The CrossStones of Noratus, on Sunday, October 4th at 5 p.m. at the Tekeyan Cultural Association Beshgeturian Center, 1901 N. Allen Avenue in Altadena. This…...

10+ hour, 41+ min ago   (960+ words) As much as any word, “wilderness” has come to define the Adirondacks. Yet the definition of wilderness itself has proved as elusive as the bobcat and as fleeting as spring ephemerals. On Tuesday, the Whallonsburg Grange kicked off a six-part series…...