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Mysteries of Jesus’ life ‘solved’ by Biblical finds from lost pool where he ‘cured blind man’ to Roman crucifixion stone
PEERING back 2,000 years to the age of Jesus isn’t exactly easy – but rare objects from those times solve the mystery of what ...
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The annual Petworth Park Antiques and Fine Art Fair takes place for the 11th time
The acclaimed Petworth Park Antiques & Fine Art Fair opens for the 11th time on Friday 16 to Sunday 18 May 2025 in the ...
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It Took a Century to Find This Colossal Squid
This cephalopod can grow to more than 20 feet and has proved elusive in its deep-sea environs ... Unlike the scientists of a century ago, who had to dig through partly digested carnage in a ...
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A 19th-Century London Arts and Crafts House With a Bold and Modern Extension Lists for £7.5 Million
An award-winning lateral house in a charming London suburb is on sale for £7.5 million (US$9.7 million). The house in London’s quaint Belsize Park neighborhood has a 1860s traditional Arts and ...
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Offbeat Oregon: Colorful sea-captain was a 19th-century Han Solo
As a sea-captain, Jemmy turned out to be a marvel — in a “19th-century Han Solo” kind of way. Historian James McCurdy calls him “a veritable stormy petrel, always in some trouble or another on the ...
The Boston Globe20d
What’s up with Trump’s fascination with two obscure 19th-century presidents?
He has an unusual fascination with two obscure 19th-century presidents — James K. Polk and William McKinley. Both championed what many consider outdated policies that Trump is now trying to ...
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Major trade wars since the 19th century
In the mid-19th century, two conflicts over the opium trade, which became known as the Opium Wars, pitted China against the British Empire. The first began in 1839, when Britain launched a ...
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Alert: China threatens to "resolutely take countermeasures" in response to Trump threat of additional 50% tariff
BEIJING (AP) — China threatens to "resolutely take countermeasures" in response to Trump threat of additional 50% tariff.
The Globe and Mail22d
It took more than 7,000 garments to reimagine 19th century Italian society in Netflix’s The Leopard
They studied hundreds of historical texts and their mood boards took inspiration from Franz Xaver Winterhalter’s paintings of deities and affluent 19th-century families. Their most valuable ...
City Journal22d
Tariffs Didn’t Drive America’s Nineteenth-Century Growth. They Won’t Today, Either
In this telling, high tariffs fueled America’s nineteenth-century industrial rise. Tariff-supporters like Oren Cass have argued that the United States “transformed from colonial backwater to continent ...
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Inside The History Of The Daguerreotype, The Pioneering Photographic Process That Captured 19th-Century Life
Named for French inventor Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre, the daguerreotype was the world's first successful form of photography — and it captured historic images of everyone from Abraham Lincoln to ...
The Australian Financial Review22d
Trump’s 19th century economic policy
Reading Michael Stutchbury’s article on Donald Trump (“‘Liberation day’ risks going back the ’90s. The 1890s”) makes it far easier to understand the US president’s obsession with the ...