Stained Glass
The oldest extant stained glass works date from the eleventh century, and a depiction of stained glass art appears in a tenth century manuscript. The design of these early examples, howe...
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A trio of thieves found a window of opportunity in the homes they burglarized. Starting in late May, police said, the thieves dressed as construction workers as they raided vacant homes that were e...
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If New York is a godless city, then Greenwich Village is its heathen hotbed. But sex shops and leather bars aside, nothing typifies Manhattan sin quite like an 1860 Methodist church that’s be...
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Several of the wondrous geysers feared obliterated by a massive landslide on Russia's remote Kamchatka Peninsula reappeared Thursday after a drop in the water level in a lake formed by the flow of ...
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What you saw isn't always what you got with Luca Luca's spring collection. Many of the looks designer Luca Orlandi previewed at New York Fashion Week on Monday had little hidden gems that you had t...
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Take the A train to the Middle Ages.
The subway stop at 190th Street lets you out near the Cloisters, the Metropolitan Museum of Art's medieval outpost in northern Manhattan.
This comp...
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On June 2, 1907, tens of thousands of people paraded from the Capitol to the site of Cathedral of St. Paul _ celebrating the laying of the cornerstone for a grand church that was being built on one...
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Japan's first ''baby hatch'' was set up in a hospital in
Kumamoto City, southwestern Japan, on Tuesday to enable parents who
cannot care for infants to anonymously drop them off and will star...
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(EDS: UPDATING INFO IN 1ST, 3RD GRAF, ADDING INFO IN 8TH GRAF)
Japan's first ''baby hatch'' was set up in a hospital in
Kumamoto City, southwestern Japan, on Tuesday and will start
operating...
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