Tomb of missing pharaoh found in biggest discovery since 1922
Thutmose II died 3,500 years ago and his tomb was thought to be at the other end of the mountain near the Valley of the Kings ...
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Oscar Fouz Lopez: Tenets of Growing review – Watercolour tableaux seek to rejuvenate their subjects through a nurturing ecosystem
Such scenes have captured the visual imagination of painters since time immemorial, but it wasn’t until the 18th century that the Enlightenment thinker and art critic Denis Diderot coined the ...
New York Daily News18d
BLACK HISTORY MONTH: Irish, African American connection linked by slavery, neighborhoods, tragedy
(Getty Images) The bonding between enslaved Africans and Irish servants, which began in the 18th century, would continue in the 19th century. From the 1830s to the 1860s, the Five Points ...
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15 of the most romantic escapes across Ireland — with some great value options
Use precise geolocation data. Actively scan device characteristics for identification. Store and/or access information on a ...
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Rotunda building plan likened to ‘brick-clad cruise liner docked on Parnell Square’
Heritage organisations the Dublin Civic Trust and An Taisce said the development would irrevocably damage the 18th-century square and the potential for its regeneration and restoration ...
Boca Raton turns 100 years old this year. What does the city have planned?
The city's centennial website, Boca100.com, lists all things Boca Raton ahead of May, when the city marks its 100th birthday.
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A new opera traces the tragic, true stories of two women two centuries apart
The first, Anne Bonny, was an 18th-century Irish pirate who escaped execution by reason of pregnancy. The second, Savita Halapannavar, was a dentist born in India and raised in Ireland who died in ...
The Nation21d
The Reckless Creation of Whiteness
In The Unseen Truth, Sarah Lewis examines how an erroneous 18th-century story about the “Caucasian ... often Jewish or Irish women whose hair had been stiffened with the help of coatings of ...
Irish Central27d
On This Day: Arthur Guinness, founder of the Dublin brewery, died in 1803
who campaigned for legislative freedom for the Irish Parliament in the late 18th century throughout the 1780s and 90s. Many of us may not agree with the rest of his politics, however. According to ...
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Kerry's Valentia Island - a secret at the edge of the world
While 18th century Ireland was plagued with absentee or money-hungry landlords, Valentia was unique in that its landlords - the various Knights of Kerry - developed industries and opportunities ...