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The U.S. dollar index posted its biggest weekly percentage gain in a month on Friday, buoyed by the prospect of a more aggressive pace of tightening from…

TL Photo/CARRI GRAHAM The Monroe County Gold Star Families Memorial is unveiled Friday afternoon in Beallsville. …

History links WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Purdue men's golf team completes final…

The American Civil Liberties Union this week helped defeat a bill that would have allowed the Biden administration to liquidate the assets of Russian oligarchs and return the proceeds to Ukraine.ACLU officials told lawmakers on Tuesday that…

M CloutierThe Flagler Museum's Café des Beaux-Arts will offer its Gilded Age-style tea services for three more days before its seasonal closure, which has been extended from April 15 to April 16.In addition to the regular hours of 11:30…

Published on: 04/07/2022 - 22:52Amended: 04/07/2022 - 22:50 Santiago (AFP) - Chile's new left-wing president, Gabriel Boric, whose election in December sparked market skepticism,…

AUSTIN, Texas — The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin has acquired the papers by Richard N. Goodwin, speechwriter and policymaker to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B.…

Rabat is a surprisingly tranquil capital that feels a world apart from Casablanca and Marrakech. As well as excellent museums detailing modern art and Moroccan history, one of its main attractions is its decent range of international…

GOP hardliners are already planning to invite him to join their congressional caucus. And House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said Wednesday he was a "huge fan" of her.But some Republicans in Alaska scoff. "We have 50 names that Alaskans…

A quilt on display at the African American Museum shines a light on black entrepreneurship throughout Gaston County's history, museum founder Dot Guthrie said."It's for the community," said Guthrie, who founded the museum located at the…

French National Front (FN) leader Marine Le Pen has gained ground against incumbent President Emmanuel Macron in the latest poll ahead of the first round of France's April 10 presidential election.Charles Platiau | ReutersFrench markets…

The Los Angeles City Council's Land Use Planning and Management Committee on Tuesday put forward a proposal to designate Oil Can Harry's, which closed last year, as a historic-cultural landmark to be the one of the oldest gay bars in…

CLICHY-SOUS-BOIS, France, April 5 (Reuters) - Capucine Blond is set to vote in her first presidential election on Sunday, but the disconnect the French teenager feels with the ruling elite is so great that she has decided that it was of no…

PTI Colombo, April 5 Sri Lanka's ruling coalition, led by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, faced more problems on Tuesday after the resignation of new…

UC Irvine recently announced plans to build the Langson Institute and Museum of California Art (IMCA) on its North Campus. We asked the museum's first director, Kim Kanatani, what to expect. Q. Describe the UCI art collection. A. In…

Humanity has less than three years to halt rising carbon pollution that is warming the planet, UN climate experts warned on Monday, with any delay in…

SMYRNA, Ga. — For half a century, celebrities, tourists and local residents have flocked to Aunt Fanny's Cabin, a restaurant known as much for its Southern menu as for its depiction of plantation life and racist imagery, where white…

PARIS Kylian Mbappe scored two goals and three assists as Paris Saint-Germain beat Lorient 5-1 and maintained their 12-point lead over Marseille to inch ever closer to a record 10th French league title on Sunday. There are eight…

HBO Max is rapidly becoming one of the leading streaming platforms, thanks to the presence of iconic HBO originals. Many of them are sitcoms with loyal followings, including the likes of Veep and Calm your enthusiasm. At the same time,…

Air France prepares for a busy summer, as he prepares to serve more 196 destinations on its network – operating at 90% of 2019 capacity. Long-haul network Demand appears to be strong for Air France's services, with supply being increased…

Baku, April 2, AZERTAC As one of the magnificent historical monuments of Azerbaijan, Garakopektepe is located on the right bank of Kondelenchay, at the entrance to the city of Fuzuli. The monument is a high hill in the shape of a…

Few people know how long April Fool's Day has been around.Officially, it began in 1700 in England, although its origins are believed to date back to 1582, according to history.com.Related:On the old year and the newIt's been at least 300+…

PILSEN — Hundreds of previously unseen photos from Frida Kahlo's personal collection are on display for the first time in Chicago at the National Museum of Mexican Art in Pilsen.The exhibition "Frida Kahlo, her photos" began in 2009 at the…

The remains of Sgt. Richard Musgrave was found during an ordnance clearance process north of Lens, France, in July 2017. The Canadian military has confirmed that the remains found on a French First World War battlefield are those…

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The coastal region of Aquitaine in southwest France is known for its sand dunes, fine Bordeaux wines and delicious seafood.Maïder Taudin is a fishmonger at The Aiguillonin Fish Market in Arcachon. The family fish shop sells all kinds of…

Published on: 03/29/2022 - 07:28 Tokyo (AFP) - Tokyo's futuristic-looking Nakagin Capsule Tower will be demolished next month, its owners say, after a long battle to save the…

York County History Day is Saturday, April 16. (WYDaily/Nancy Sheppard) YORK COUNTY — The community is invited to experience the history of York County on Saturday, April 16. There will be activities along the river for York County…

The NSW State Emergency Service has issued evacuation warnings for lower parts of North Lismore and South Lismore, after the Bureau of Meteorology predicted possible flooding along the Wilsons River. “Residents and visitors to these areas…

The Stone Mill Museum, owned and operated by the Sandwich Historical Society, will open for the spring/summer season on April 2. The museum will be open to the public on Sundays from 1 to 4 p.m. from April to September.Built in 1856 as a…

New Delhi: After a two-year hiatus, international flight operations resume on Sunday. After operations resume, foreign airlines will once again be able to offer one-stop transits to travel between India and the rest of the world through…

WATERFORD - The George Washington Statue Park in Waterford will have a facelift this year for the statue's centenary.The Fort LeBoeuf Historical Society will re-dedicate the George Washington statue on August 27 and is raising funds to…

F1 CEO Stefano Domenicali recently gave several interviews regarding the future of F1 circuits and was quick to say that the series' priorities are A) money and B) global expansion.Tradition and existing fan support don't seem to be part of!-->…

A Maryland judge ruled Friday that Democrats in the state drew an "extreme gerrymander" and rejected the state's new congressional map, the first time this redistricting cycle where the map of a legislature controlled by the Democrats was…

The Field Museum's collection of historic eggs sheds new light on climate change. (Patty Wetli / WTTW News) A new study by the Field Museum shows that climate change is disrupting when birds lay their eggs. This latest research,…

Ruling out any military involvement in the ongoing war between Ukraine and Russia, French President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday (local time) that France had decided to…

When hockey fans think of UMass, the name that usually comes to mind is Avalanche defenseman Cale Makar. And rightly so. After becoming the first UMass player to win the Hobey Baker, college hockey's most…

From the smog-choked narrow streets of downtown Birmingham to his country mansion, Tommy Shelby's homes have fascinated Peaky Blinders fans. The BBC crime drama follows Tommy, the patriarch of the Shelby crime family, from his early days in!-->…

By Jim Beaugez | Guest Contributor One of Marcie Cohen Ferris's strongest memories of her Jewish youth in the Arkansas Delta town of Blytheville is the regular trips her mother made to Memphis to stock up on kosher food. She…

Published on: 03/23/2022 - 11:50 Geneva (AFP) – Scientists are urging Europe not to delay the transition to greener agriculture in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which is…

WEST TOWN — A couple who want to demolish their longtime family home in a historic neighborhood and sell the property could get final approval from city council on Wednesday, despite objections from the local alderman.The council committee…

FranceIt was the collective sense of purpose and unity that was most striking as France reclaimed their grand slam and climbed to second place in the world rankings. In the past, they would suffer a setback and often let it distract them.…

The residential real estate market rebounded last year following the easing of Covid-19 restrictions, with the value of houses and apartments sold increasing by 21%.An analysis of the Residential Property Price Register shows that the total…

The International Civil Rights Center and Museum is getting a $250,000 discount on the purchase of the former building next door to First Citizen, as Guilford County Board of Commissioners Chairman Skip Alston, one of museum…

The Egyptian-French Business Forum in Cairo on Monday (Photo: Egyptian Cabinet)Such ventures benefit both friendly countries, spur genuine economic growth and provide employment opportunities for future generations, Madbouly added in his…

TOWN OF NEWBURGH - It was meant to be a marketing tool for the village of Newburgh in the 1830s. Modeled after a Greek temple, the Dutch Reformed Church on Grand Street had oyster shells built into its facade for him give off a pearly glow,…

The Russian TV editor who interrupted a news program to protest the war in Ukraine said on Sunday she acted out of dissatisfaction with propaganda broadcast by Vladimir Putin's government and said she refused an offer of asylum in France…

BALBOA PARK, Calif. (KGTV) — Ukraine House hosted its Pysanka Festival at the Hall of Nations in Balboa Park on Saturday. “There is a saying in Ukraine. As long as the pysanky are written, Ukraine will survive,” said Nadia Haywas,…

Producer John Goldwyn declined his invitation to the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures' September 2021 Opening Gala. The grandson of Samuel Goldwyn - an industry founding father whose leadership efforts a century ago led to the…

Published on: 03/18/2022 - 23:44 Brussels (AFP) – Belgium on Friday delayed its plan to phase out nuclear power by 2025 by a decade, spooked by the huge spike in energy prices due to…

Today in Detroit, more than 200 high school students will participate in what you might call a job fair like no other. It's a world-class design event called Conceived by offering 30 round tables led by black designers, on the themes of…

By Joan Tupponce Iryna Piontkivska has agreed to present the topic "Ukrainian Language and Cultural Competence" for the VCU Continuing and Vocational Education Lunch and Learn Series ahead of the…

Fazio represented the Sacramento area from 1979 to 1999 and was a member of the House Appropriations and Armed Services commissions. "He was an incredibly sharp and passionate legislator, but someone who also cared deeply about those whose…

Karissa Francis has seen her fair share of drama in the seven years she worked as a visitor services assistant in museum foyers.Customers whose tickets have gone missing or who disagree with pandemic mask requirements have been known to…

Shares of Hindustan Aeronautics rose 8% to Rs 1,481.35 on BSE during Wednesday's intraday trading on reports that the company has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU)…

Women's History Month dates back to the first International Women's Day in 1911. In 1978, schools in Sonoma, California celebrated Women's History Week with events designed around March 8 ( International Women's Day). Following a…

The electoral commission announces after an unusual delay that Serdar Berdymukhamedov obtained nearly 73% of the votes.Turkmen authorities say the son of the Central Asian country's leader won the presidential election after an unusual…

JACKSON, Tennessee — A local college has partnered with a regional organization to shine a light on the history of black women in America. the University of Memphis Lambuth in partnership with the A real black history museumwho travels the…

A new round of talks between Russia and Ukraine has focused on discussing a possible ceasefire with an immediate troop withdrawal, a Ukrainian official said on Monday.ByJulia Fanzeres and Alex LongleyBloombergPosted on March 14, 2022March!-->…

Asian communities in overseas cities are often associated with their culture in specific neighborhoods like Little India, Little Tokyo, Chinatown, Koreatown, etc. Now, Filipino culture can be recognized with the Historic Filipinotown…

Published on: 03/13/2022 - 22:58 Los Angeles (AFP) - American actor William Hurt, known for his acclaimed films such as 'The Big Chill' and 'A History of Violence', has died at the…

Brent Renaud attends the annual Peabody Awards in New York in 2015. (Mike Coppola/Getty Images)Award-winning American journalist Brent Renaud was killed by Russian forces in Irpin, Ukraine, Kyiv region police said in social media posts on…

When Baltimore Sun columnist HL Mencken described Arkansas as a backwater nearly a century ago, Bernie Babcock decided she had to do something.In 1927, the suffragist, author and mother proved her "I'll show her" determination by opening…

Andrey Melnichenko's mega yacht is seized by Italian finance police in Trieste, Italy on March 12. (Giorgio Boemo/Reuters)Italian finance police seized Russian oligarch Andrey Melnichenko's mega yacht in Trieste, Italy on Friday night.The…

The 'cancelled' statue of Theodore Roosevelt that was transported in the middle of the night from the steps of the American Museum of Natural History should be sent for scrap rather than a presidential library in…

The casing of a Russian rocket capable of carrying cluster munitions is seen east of the strategic Ukrainian port city of Mykolaiv on March 10. NATO says Russia is using cluster bombs in its assault on Ukraine. (Scott Peterson/Getty…

In 2019, 143 acres of the former October Farm were transferred to Mass Audubon, a nonprofit organization that protects wildlife in Massachusetts that Brewster led as its first president. It was renamed Brewster's Woods Wildlife…

Published on: 03/11/2022 - 09:46Amended: 03/11/2022 - 09:45 Buenos Aires (AFP) - Argentine lawmakers on Friday approved a deal with the International Monetary Fund to restructure a…

SMITHFIELD, RI – Bryant University Vision 2030 strategic plan confirmed Bryant's unparalleled institution-wide commitment to educating students to be ready for the real world for success and superior results with a…

EUGENE, Oregon – Oregon's track and field team travels to Birmingham, Alabama this weekend for the 2022 NCAA Indoor Championships. The Ducks have 14 national entries - seven men, seven women - for the national meet of two days…

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has condemned a Russian attack on a children's hospital in the besieged city of Mariupol as evidence of 'genocide' as the United States moves to dramatically boost its support for the war-torn country…

After being closed for most of the pandemic, the Smithsonian's Anacostia Community Museum reopened on Wednesday. The museum opened in its original location in the old Carver Theater in 1967 with a mission to reach the local…

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during the IBEW Local 553 Apprentice Training Program at Durham Technical College March 2, in Durham, North Carolina. (Allison Joyce/AFP/Getty Images) US Vice President Kamala Harris will discuss…

The wreckage of the Endurance has been found in Antarctica, 106 years after the historic ship was crushed in pack ice and sank during an expedition by explorer Ernest Shackleton.A team of adventurers, marine archaeologists and technicians…

EEven on the night Real Madrid concluded La Liga, everything revolved around Europe. On Saturday, the day Paris Saint-Germain lost 1-0 to Nice, Carlo Ancelotti's side perhaps produced their best performance of the season. Coming from a…

The New York Times Co. said it was withdrawing its editorial from Russia days after the country passed a law that threatens jail time for anyone who publishes what authorities say is false information about the invasion. Ukraine by country.…

The Newcomb Art Museum is ranked among the top 10 art museums in New Orleans. (Gabi Liebeler) When Tulane University's Newcomb Art Department expanded and renovated its facilities in 1996, the Newcomb Art Museum was established as an…

Odessa, which Ukraine fears is the next target of Russia's southern offensive, is the country's main port and vital to its economy. But the city of one million inhabitants near the Romanian and Moldavian borders also occupies a special…

A The traffic cone that adorns the head of a Glasgow statue has been given a Ukrainian makeover to show solidarity with the people of the war-torn country.Pauline McWhirter decided to use her crochet skills to create a blanket for the…

The penalties are piling up. Seven Russian banks, including its second largest, VTB, will be barred from SWIFT, the backbone of international financial transactions. Companies like Apple, Ford, Nike and…

A historic country house in Cheshire has come on the market for almost £2million. The Grade II listed Hulme Hall on Hulme Hall Lane in Allostock, Knutsford is on sale for £1,895,000 after undergoing a huge restoration thanks to!-->…

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- The Frazier History Museum hosted a benefit event Friday night for the Tyler Gerth…

Zurich (AFP) – Switzerland's new tough stance vis-à-vis Russia has forced the Swiss economy to readjust to the sanctions, blowing a wind of panic on the commodity market in particular.…

Residents of Odessa preparing to defend the city, Odessa, Ukraine, March 3. (Gilles Bader/Le Pictorium/Cover Images/Reuters)In Odessa, a strategically important port city on Ukraine's Black Sea coast, civilians – computer programmers,…

Credit: Jean Guichard/Gamma-Rapho/Getty Luc Montagnier achieved scientific notoriety and won a Nobel Prize for co-discovering HIV. His work has led to the development of diagnostic tests and…

HORICO – Is the Satterlee Clark House Museum in Horicon haunted?Curator Lahnie Neu believes so and invited a team of paranormal investigators to the site in January to check it out. The results of the investigation will be…

Russia attacks Ukraine Read more on Russia attacks Ukraine "We only know each other to the extent that we have been tested." Most Poles recognize this line from a poem by Nobel laureate Wislawa Szymborska. Today, following…

YELM, Wash. “What once served to supply the town of Yelm with water now serves a different purpose.“It really is a shining beacon now for us,” Yelm Mayor Joe DePinto said.The historic water tower, located next to Yelm's town hall and…

The National Covid-19 Preparedness Plan, which will require additional funding from Congress, focuses on spending on Covid-19 treatments, preparing new variants, keeping schools and businesses open and continuing efforts to vaccinate the…

The academics of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, one of the works in the museum, a representation of Christ holding a globe circa 1520-1530, is probably by the great Italian Renaissance artist Titian. Experts have spent…

(CNN) — From an English castle threatened by climate change to an Egyptian monument in the shadow of its more famous counterparts, this year's World Monuments Watch shines a light on 25 culturally significant but endangered heritage…

"I did not like." You wouldn't expect an award-winning sommelier to say that about their first wine tasting. But Joseph Dhafana still remembers the bitter, acidic burn of his first sip – he was in his twenties and not a fan. At 23,…

WASHINGTON — Last Wednesday, hours before Russian tanks began arriving in Ukraine, alarms went off inside Microsoft's Threat Intelligence Center, warning of never-before-seen "windshield wiper" malware that appeared to be targeting the…

“We should partner with someone for production,” he said. "We need production capacity."The museum produced four alpha models of the box-in-a-box concept that Kronkright developed with a team of retired vibration engineers from the Jet…

PARIS — French energy companies operating in the Russian Arctic Sea. Italian luxury shops near Red Square. German car factories in southern Russia.As the United States and the European Union apply sanctions to penalize Russia for its…

In the 1940s, a farm nestled beside the Patuxent River in Prince George's County, Maryland became an airfield that would open new doors for aspiring black pilots. This report is part of…

At a press conference in December, Russian President Vladimir Putin brought up the Lone Star State to defend his country's annexation of Ukraine's Crimean peninsula. “What,” he said, “like Mexico and the United States have never had…

The White House, along with several EU countries, announced on Saturday the expulsion of some Russian banks from SWIFT, the high-security network linking thousands of financial institutions around the world.But what exactly is SWIFT and how…

the Indian Museum of Art and Nature has opened registration for its annual Earth Day Poetry competetion…

BOULOGNE-SUR-MER, France, Feb 26 (Reuters) - France on Saturday seized a car cargo ship in the English Channel that Washington said was linked to the son of a former Russian spy chief, in one of the first visible exhibits The West is…