Gilded-Age Robber Barons at Frick as Schomburg Brings DJ, Lear
Kim G. Davis, co-chairman of Charlesbank Capital Partners, crossed an item off his bucket list Monday night by going to dinner at the Frick Collection, the museum made from the mansion Henry Clay Frick...
View ArticleA South Korean City Designed For The Future Takes On A Life Of Its Own
5:11 PM ET Ari Shapiro Facebook Twitter Tumblr Instagram Audio for this story from All Things Considered will be available at approximately 7:00 p.m. ET. i Songdo, outside Seoul, was envisioned as a...
View ArticleLet Me Show You What Keeps Me From Being Healthy
10:45 AM ET Patti Neighmond Twitter What do you see in your community that helps you be heart healthy and what gets in your way? People who live in the "stroke belt," an area in the Southeast with high...
View ArticleBritish shoppers to pay for plastic grocery bags
Beginning Monday, October 5, shoppers in England will be charged for plastic bags in stores, as the Open University reported October 2. The initiative, based on March 2015 legislation, is aimed at...
View ArticleKeurig is about to launch a new device that it hopes will save its business
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A new countertop device by Keurig Green Mountain Inc will drive long-term growth for the company following recent sales declines in its core business of single-serve coffee pods...
View ArticleFrom Chicago to Mackinac Island, a tour of Lake Michigan
We left to the south and returned from the north. In doing so, we fulfilled the grandest dream of Magellan, the dream of circumnavigation. Our compass was GPS, and our logic was simple. If we kept the...
View Articleunique glass pipes 87 (FCA - Ferrovia Centro-Atlântica SA)
(Source: FCA - Ferrovia Centro-Atlântica SA) In order to decorate your presents during the holiday season,glass smoking pipe 64, this quick tutorial will show you how to make a beautiful gift bow....
View ArticleEurope's story: Layers of migration
London's Brick Lane Mosque started as a church for Protestants hounded from Catholic France — for whom the word "refugee" was first coined. Later, displaced Jews turned it into a synagogue. Today,...
View ArticleSlane Castle whiskey: Jack Daniel's owner to build distillery at historic...
The owner of the Jack Daniel's brand is to build its first new distillery outside the US at Ireland's historic Slane Castle. Lord Henry Mountcharles sold the family's whiskey company to American drinks...
View ArticleSlane Castle whiskey: Jack Daniel's owner to build distillery at historic castle
The owner of the Jack Daniel's brand is to build its first new distillery outside the US at Ireland's historic Slane Castle. Lord Henry Mountcharles sold the family's whiskey company to American drinks...
View ArticleFormer Chancellor, Sir Adrian Cadbury, passes away aged 86 (Aston University)
(Source: Aston University) It is with great sadness that we must inform you that Sir Adrian Cadbury, Aston University's former Chancellor, died on 3 September at the age of 86. Sir Adrian was a...
View ArticleStereophonics: ‘It was never about celebrities or fame’
One problem about calling your new album Keep the Village Alive, as Stereophonics are finding out, is having the village take you up on the offer. On the day I meet singer and guitarist Kelly Jones and...
View Article3 Korean Sights Make It on Lonely Planet's Travelist
Korea's Changdeok Palace, the demilitarized zone and the N Seoul Tower have made it among the world's top 500 places chosen by Lonely Planet, the world's largest travel guide. Lonely Planet rated the...
View ArticleOne of world’s oldest Quran goes on display in UK
LONDON: One of the world's oldest manuscripts of the Quran dating back to at least 1,370 years and written on parchment that was possibly made around the lifetime of the Prophet Muhammad went on...
View ArticleBournville newsagent alcohol sale approval criticised
A newsagent has received permission to sell alcohol on the edge of the "dry" area in Bournville in Birmingham. A ban on selling alcohol in shops in the area has been in place since the village was...
View ArticleNewsagent's alcohol licence angers pub-free Bournville
Shopkeeper on fringe of historic village’s dry zone says he needs to diversify, but locals fear outbreak of antisocial behaviour...
View ArticleBooze back in Britain’s only dry village after 120 years
Bournville: A British newsagent has been granted permission to sell alcohol, ending a rare 120-year ban in the last remaining “dry” village in England, officials said Wednesday. Bournville, a suburb of...
View ArticleLone British Island of Sobriety Subsumed Beneath a Tide of Demon Liquor
After more than a century, there is now a single place in Bournville, England—a village built by the founders of Cadbury candy, and still closely tied to the company—where you can buy a goddamn drink....
View ArticleCicilline Introduces 21st Century Buy American Act to Promote U.S. Goods...
(Source: David Cicilline) PROVIDENCE - Speaking to members of the New England Council this morning, U.S. Congressman David N. Cicilline outlined upcoming legislative priorities and his introduction of...
View ArticleSmall Business Month celebrations begin (Government of British Columbia)
(Source: Government of British Columbia) VICTORIA - Small Business Month celebrations kicked off at the B.C. legislature today with the launch of a new award to recognize young entrepreneurs, and the...
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