119-year-old bottle found behind crown above theatre stage
A theatre-lover was "astonished" to find a 119-year-old message in a bottle during a special behind-the-scenes tour of ...
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Antiques Roadshow guest stunned as $20 vase from Goodwill gets huge valuation
An Antiques Roadshow guest was left floored after her $20 thrift store find was given a jaw-dropping valuation. The guest explained that she found the vessel at a Goodwill store before grabbing it as ...
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The Trailblazing Black Librarian Who Rewrote the Rules of Power, Gender and Racial Passing
Belle da Costa Greene, the first director of the Morgan Library, was a Black woman who passed as white in the early 20th ...
A Boneyard Along the Thames River Reveals London’s Ancient Burials
Researchers have found dozens of human bones on the banks of the iconic river, many of them thousands of years old.
Deep Water: ‘two cents plain,’ by Anna Wrobel
In this week’s poem, “two cents plain,” Anna Wrobel finds solace in of a glass of seltzer (for which the title is an old Brooklyn catch-phrase) and a wartime act of chance and humanity that resulted ...