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Rare 17th Century Australia map found in attic goes on display
A rare 17th Century map of Australia, one of just two left, has gone on display for the first time. Created in 1659 by renowned Dutch cartographer Joan Blaeu, the unique map was thought to have ...
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These maps will change how you see the world
Geographer Alastair Bonnett on his pick of the most diverse maps, from a collection of 100,000 galaxies to a 12th-century ...
Remains of rare 17th century structure found under parking lot, Virginia officials say
It’s the same spot where a new archaeological center is being built for Colonial Williamsburg — “the largest U.S. history ...
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Shipwreck found in Black Sea is 'world's oldest intact'
The 23m (75ft) wreck, found in the Black Sea by an Anglo-Bulgarian team, is being hailed as officially the world's oldest known ... Roman trading ships and a 17th Century Cossack trading fleet.
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17th-Century Mummified Brains Test Positive for Cocaine
Journal of Archaeological Science Despite disco being centuries away, residents of 17th century Italy ... arrival of Spaniards in the New World in the 15th century. While there were some efforts ...
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This Cozy 17th-Century Decor Style Is Taking Over Living Rooms Everywhere
ICYMI: TikTok loves needlepointing. If you scroll through the app, you’ll find creators showing off their latest finished pieces and artists making their very own painted needlepoint canvases.
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Century Communities Recognized on List of World's Most Trustworthy Companies 2024 by Newsweek
GREENWOOD VILLAGE, Colo., Sept. 17, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Century Communities, Inc. (NYSE: CCS)—one of the United States' largest homebuilders and an industry leader in online home sales—is proud to ...
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Simon Verity, Master Stone Carver on Both Sides of the Atlantic, Dies at 79
His Old World craftsmanship extended from ... a three-dimensional bronze plaque of a 1660 map of New Amsterdam, the 17th-century Dutch settlement that was renamed New York after the English ...
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Asia’s seabed is a hotbed of cable-laying activity
Ever-increasing data and video traffic volumes are driving demand for more subsea network capacityNew submarine cables are ...
The Anxious States of America: We searched for Hope. Here's what we found.
In their own lives, Americans tell us that their family, their faith and their friends give them hope. For the country, after ...
AFP on MSN3d
Coal phase-out fuels far right in rural eastern Germany
White clouds still billow from the cooling towers of a coal plant near Spremberg in Germany's ex-communist east but the end ...
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Victor Hugo, who ate lobsters in their shells (and also wrote “Les Miserables”)
The answer to that question is the contributions of one Victor Marie Hugo. Of all the mad lads in history, Hugo was perhaps one of the maddest … and it’s hard to find other singular words to describe ...