The Vanderveer-Harris House, a landmark dating to the 18th century, is getting needed repairs this year thanks to a grant of more than $400,000. The grant will fund repairs to the house’s foundation, ...
Colonial Williamsburg door decorations are based upon the fact that natural materials of wreaths and swags form the basis for the attractions — no ribbons, no tinsel, no fake fruit. This year marks ...
Back in the 18th century, women didn’t have a lot of options outside of the marriage market. While in America there were plenty of “Boston marriages” between women of means, it wasn’t always a likely ...
An 18th-century mechanical artwork depicting Mount Vesuvius’ eruption has finally erupted — 250 years later. University of Melbourne students reconstructed Sir William Hamilton’s imaginative fusion of ...
We’ve known for a long time that the planets travel around the sun, but there was a period where this was still new, exciting, and worthy of public demonstrations. Eighteenth century artist Joseph ...
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SOLDIERS ON MANOEUVRES do relish a “sinking exercise”: the blowing up of a clapped-out warship as target practice. And during Valiant Shield 2024, a wargame in the Pacific, many witnessed a ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A historic stone Colonial in Park Ridge that once anchored one of the borough’s earliest commercial compounds has hit the market ...
Jury convicts ex-Antioch police officer Devon Wenger Watch toddler’s sweet smile when he hears mom for the first time Machu Picchu is at risk of losing its ‘credibility’ as one of the New 7 Wonders of ...
David Bowie secretly began working on a musical set in 18th-century London in the months leading up to his death in 2016, according to new notes discovered locked in his New York City office. Bowie ...
What’s the opposite of a white cube exhibition? Touch Jamaica, Rejin Leys’s show of paper sculptures set among the period props of a historic home, feels pretty close. The Queens-based ...