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The 1834 home is full of Richard Tuttle’s eccentric collections. A line of rocks, displayed below an early American folk-art portrait, includes a hand ax carved by a Homo erectus (far right). “I kind of see houses differently and appreciate them differently from this house,” said broker Leslie Mason. Photo: Tim Waltman/Evan Joseph Studio On the hearth of a fireplace in an 1834 rowhouse on Vandam Street sits an object that is much, much older: a fist-size stone chiseled by a Homo erectus into an ax. “To hold something a million years old and to feel the connection, it supports the…

The first time I visited Germany was when I moved there with my husband two years ago.I couldn’t believe how easily accessible and convenient the public transportation system was.I was shocked to find that most stores, including grocery stores, were closed on Sundays. Thanks for signing up! Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed while you’re on the go. download the app By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. You can opt-out at any time by visiting our Preferences page or by clicking “unsubscribe” at the bottom of the email. In July 2022,…

DEVELOPING STORYDEVELOPING STORY, The 72 deaths in the Grenfell Tower fire in London in 2017 were all “avoidable” a report into the tragedy has concluded. Delivered on Wednesday following a six-year inquiry, the final report highlights decades of failure of the United Kingdom government, indifference to safety by authorities, dishonest and incompetent manufacturers and installers of building materials, and a lack of strategy by firefighters were the main contributors to the shocking death toll. Those in the 24-storey block were “badly failed” over many years, said the inquiry chairman, Martin Moore-Bick. He added that the inquiry took longer than hoped…

It’s finally here: The official start to the NFL 2024 regular season.We’ve had an intense preseason, which began with the Pro Football Hall of Fame Game, where the Chicago Bears had a narrow lead versus the Houston Texans with a final score of 21-17. After a taste of what this season could have in store with three weeks of preseason games, we’re even more excited to get the 2024 NFL regular season started.The first NFL game of the season is a showdown between the Baltimore Ravens and Kansas City Chiefs on Thursday. Week 1 doesn’t end there. Fans will have a chance…

CMG Home Loans, the retail lending division of CMG Financial, announced on Tuesday the appointment of Kari Van Kleef to the position of reverse mortgage operations manager. She is one of “several industry veterans who will be directing the dedicated reverse mortgage department at CMG,” the company said. Van Kleef, who previously worked for the reverse mortgage divisions at Fairway Independent Mortgage Corp. and Movement Mortgage, has been in the broader mortgage business for about 26 years and began focusing specifically on reverse in 2015. During her time at Fairway, she established a new reverse mortgage processing center and was…

The Alibaba Group logo displayed on a mobile phone. Cfoto | Future Publishing | Getty ImagesChinese tech giant Alibaba on Wednesday said that its core Taobao and Tmall e-commerce platforms will now allow payment through Tencent’s WeChat app for the first time.Previously, Alibaba’s Chinese e-commerce sites only accepted limited payment options and pushed WeChat Pay rival Alipay as one of the main ways to pay. Alipay is run by Ant Group, an affiliate of Alibaba that was also founded by Jack Ma.”We have always been open to collaborations, and have actively explored interoperability and partnerships with our peers,” an Alibaba spokesperson…

Ukraine’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Dmytro Kuleba has stepped down from his role as part of a wide-ranging reshuffle of the Ukrainian cabinet. Several Ukrainian officials also resigned from their posts on Tuesday, leaving some of the government’s top jobs vacant, including the strategic industries minister in charge of weapons production.The parliamentary leader of the ruling Servant of the People party said half of the cabinet would be changed in a major government reshuffle this week.Mr Kuleba, who is the most senior of the ministers to resign, has been in post since March 2020.MP Inna Sovsun told the BBC there…

Brand new episodes of The View. Brand new look for one of the talk show’s opinionated co-hosts. Ahead of Tuesday’s Season 28 premiere of this long-running program, ABC released the following promotional photo of Sunny Hostin, Joy Behar, Ana Navarro, Whoopi Goldberg, Sara Haines, Alyssa Farah Griffin. Can you spot the reason why it created quite a stir on social media? Sunny Hostin, Joy Behar, Ana Navarro, Whoopi Goldberg, Sara Haines, Alyssa Farah Griffin make up your cast for The View Season 28. (ABC/Jeff Lipsky) As you can see immediately, Hostin has MUCH shorter hair than she had in the…

The first thing to know about riding in a robot taxi is that it feels very, very weird.The second thing to know is that, weirdly, riding in a robot taxi quickly starts to feel completely normal.The idea of a car that drives itself is as old as science fiction. But the push for autonomous auto tech didn’t get underway in earnest until about 20 years ago, when DARPA started running contests to see who could actually build a driverless vehicle. Two years ago, the Google spinoff Waymo and the GM subsidiary Cruise finally deployed cars without drivers in San Francisco.It…

More tourists are eager to visit vanishing glaciers and ice caves, but warming is also making the sites unstable. Source link