Medieval Bruges
There can be few places left where you can totally switch off for a few days from the pressures of modern day living so completely as Bruges. Its beauty and...
Dorset Polar Bear Effigies
The Dorset people were a mysterious group of hunter-gathers that roamed the Canadian Arctic between 500 BC and AD 1000. Named after Cape Dorset, where their artifacts were first discovered,...
How Living In A Library Gave One Man ‘The Thirst Of Learning’
When he was young, Ronald Clark lived in the library. Literally. Clark: You see, decades ago, custodians who worked in the New York Public Library often lived in the buildings...
Novelist Amy TanRevisitsThe Roots Of Her Writing Career
Growing up as a first-generation Chinese-American in Northern California, novelist Amy Tan found herself pulled by two different notions of fate. Her mother was guided by beliefs in curses and...
A City of the Future, Digital Dreamin Toronto
A city of the future, digital dream, has found its first home in Toronto. Sidewalk Labs LLC, the urban innovation unit of Page’s Alphabet Inc., and Waterfront Toronto plan to...
How small businesses can survive and thrive in disruptive times
Colour film, typewriters and videocassette recorders – those are just three cutting-edge products obliterated by disruptive technologies. Yet the march of disruption goes on, and the genius of successful small...
The World’s Natural Wonders – in Picture
Stunning images of incredible landscapes inspire a strong desire to travel in DK Publishing’sNatural Wonders of the World but this new book, with an introduction by Chris Packham, also features...
Oxford aims to cut air pollution with car ban in zero emissions zone
Polluting vehicles could be banned from Oxford city centre under plans to bring in what officials believe would be the world’s first zero emissions zone. The proposals aim to slash air...
Athena Parthenos
In 438 BC, Athenian statesman Pericles commissioned master sculptor Pheidias to build the Athena Parthenos in honour of the city’s patron deity. At 11.5 meters (37.7 ft) tall, the statue...
James McBride Says Fiction Writing Allows Him More Freedom
We are marveled at your ability to reinvent yourself. You are an accomplished musician and a well-known writer. How do you manage to combine all that? McBride:Music helpswrite. The world...
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The Associated General Contractors of America Annual Convention 2025 in Columbus, OH
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NUCA’s 2025 National Convention in Orlando, FL
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Oxford University Is Older Than the Aztecs
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The Associated General Contractors of America Annual Convention 2025 in Columbus, OH
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We champion collaboration over competition
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I forgave my mum and dad, when my daughter was 5