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How this Spanish city became the holy grail of pilgrimages
Santiago de Compostela is one of the major centres of Christianity in the world — but the city’s sense of spirituality goes ...
Inside 2025’s ‘drink of the year’ named after a hit song — from the NYC bar owner who invented it: ‘Very unique and different’
The pink-hued “Paper Plane,” first crafted at what is now Attaboy on the Lower East Side, has reached new heights due to its ...
1,500-year-old map helps archaeologists piece together the lost city of Tharais
A 1,500-year-old map has led humans to discover a lost city from the Byzantine Empire. The Madaba Mosaic Map built during Emperor Justinian’s reign (527-565 A.D.) shows a total of 157 sites that were ...
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The oldest map of the Holy Land is actually a magnificent mosaic
By then, its significance was clear: A cartographic masterpiece, the Madaba mosaic is the earliest map of the Holy Land. (Tower of Babel featured on ancient synagogue mosaic.) Madaba Mosaic Map ...
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Documentation of land use data base files and maps
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L.A. fire maps show Palisades, Eaton, Hughes and more fires in California right now
An updating map created by CBS News' data team charts the expanse of the wildfires across Southern California. The Hughes Fire, which erupted in northwest L.A. County on Wednesday, Jan. 22 ...
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Dalio’s ‘Holy Grail’ investment strategy
“The Holy Grail of investing is to find 10 to 15 good, uncorrelated return streams,” Dalio explained in a video posted to his YouTube channel. “If you find a number of return streams, a number of ...
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Pakistan Still Shows Junagadh On Its Map Despite Losing 1948 Vote; Here's The Nawab's Condition Now
Since then, Pakistan has officially continued to claim Junagadh and Manavadar as its own territory. It has never accepted their merger with India and has been expressing its displeasure by including ...
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Communicating hope in a time of crisis: Reflection from the Holy Land
In a time when war, division, and suffering are sweeping across the Holy Land, Pope Francis’ message for the 59th World Day of Social Communications—celebrated on June 1st, the Sunday before Pentecost ...
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Christians in Jerusalem face restrictions, violence amid holy celebrations
Police checkpoints and permit systems now control access to ... The children were exhausted. Then things escalated. The altar of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, traditionally believed to be ...
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‘Now & Then’: The Carpenters Combine The New And The Nostalgic
Listen to the best of the Carpenters on Apple Music and Spotify. Now & Then went on to reach the group’s increasingly familiar peak position of No.2 in the US, UK, Canada and Holland.
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Supreme Court spurns Native American religious claim over copper mine on sacred land
The Trump administration recently announced its backing of the project, which is now set to move forward ... which transferred the land from federal ownership to Resolution Copper, a joint ...