AmericanA Florida Keys Road Trip: 44 Islands and 42...
18/12/2018It’s only 113 miles from Key Largo to Key West, but take it slow and savor the subtropical, sometimes kitschy, flavor, of these fragile isles.
Seagulls and squadrons of brown pelicans flew alongside my rented Hyundai as I drove across the astonishing...[Read More]0 Comments
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AmericanLife Along the Hudson, Book Review: New York's Last...
18/12/2018In a rapidly changing world, one area still feels like yesteryear.
Given the news that New York’s housing slump has extended to the suburbs, it might behoove jittery homeowners to take the long view. As inspiration, they can look to a recent...[Read More]0 Comments
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Design160-strong classic car collection on sale due to...
18/12/2018The 120,000 square foot Tupelo Automobile Museum has announced it will close in the spring of next year. Located in downtown Tupelo, Mississippi, the museum is host to a huge array of machinery covering 108 years, and to ensure its expansive stock finds...[Read More]0 Comments
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ArtMozilla's Art Installation Warns About How Companies...
18/12/2018Most of us assume no one cares about what we look at on our devices, but the data is being used to create a picture of who we are and where we went — and, for the most part, it's completely legal.
"Privacy is a fundamental right … but the truth of the...[Read More]1 Comments
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ArtOpinion | The Writer Who Destroyed an Empire
11/12/2018When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, pundits offered a variety of reasons for its failure: economic, political, military. Few thought to add a fourth, more elusive cause: the regime’s total loss of credibility.
This hard-to-measure process had...[Read More]0 Comments
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EuropeanRemains of US Revolutionary War frigate discovered off...
11/12/2018John Paul Jones "Give me a fast ship for I intend to sail her into harms way". Upon hearing Captain Pearson was knighted for losing his ship the Serapis, Jones said, "If I meet him on the high seas again I will make him a lord".
llustration of the...[Read More]0 Comments
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ArtTrove of Crusader-era gold coins found at massacre...
11/12/2018Archaeologists in Israel have uncovered a trove of rare gold coins and a 900-year-old gold earring at the site of a Crusader massacre.
Officials announced the discovery last week, explaining that the artifacts were found at the ancient city of Caesarea...[Read More]0 Comments
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ArtThe Head of MCH Group, Art Basel's Parent Company,...
11/12/2018Watch market imploded. Swatch pulled out. They subsidized MCH to the tune of $50m per year.
Does the resignation of a top executive at a trade fair have broader implications for the realm of art fairs? As with in other industries, the increased...[Read More]0 Comments
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ArtYellowstone Steamboat Geyser breaks historical yearly...
11/12/2018Interesting when paintings can better illustrate a news story. Painting by Thomas Moran which sold for $1.935 million on Nov. 16, 2018.
Yellowstone - Thomas Moran (1837-1926) - learn more about the artist here
YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK (KIFI/KIDK) -...[Read More]0 Comments
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ArtThe Modern Art collection of Iran
10/12/2018Fascinating story of art in an unexpected location.
A new book reveals a collection bought by the wife of the Shah of Iran in the 1970s. Alastair Sooke talks to Farah Pahlavi, who was known as the Jackie Kennedy of the Middle East, about works by the...[Read More]0 Comments
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