Our Earth is full of treasures, some closer than we might even imagine. Take 53-year-old Malcolm Weale, for example, who, ...

A few kilometres from Faro, there is a rococo palace with a surprise. Completely restored, it has now become a charming hotel surrounded by formal French-style gardens open to the public.

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The Yale University Art Gallery makes a clever move in their “Romney: Brilliant Contrasts in Georgian England” exhibit by providing a brilliant contrast with modern American painting in the same style ...

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Styles of Enlightenment: Taste, Politics, and Authorship in Eighteenth-Century France by Elena Russo Publication date 2009 Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press Collection inlibrary; printdisabled; ...

The Williamsburg Bray School, now part of Colonial Williamsburg, taught free and enslaved Black children for several years in the 1760s.

Fort Ligonier collections manager Meghan Budinger displays some 18th-century measuring tools that are among artifacts preserved in the fort museum’s new collections storage room.