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The U.S. was once the world’s most geographically mobile society. Now we’re stuck in place—and that’s a very big problem.

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Stanford was among the first composers in Britain to write church music that was not automatically relegated to ...

Our emblematic tree is in short supply and in danger of running out – is the idea of homegrown hardwood sunk forever?

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[Photo provided to China Daily] When Frenchman Remi Launay, 29, visited Beijing's Yuanmingyuan, or Old Summer Palace, in summer, the lines of a letter ... burned," the 19th century writer had ...

Interior designer Kristin Lane invited Instagram users in 2021 to watch her remake a historic Colonial Revival house in Portland’s Dunthorpe enclave into a welcoming English country home for her ...