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Wisconsin diver Mark Schachtner was searching Pewaukee Lake for old bottles when he spotted a 17-foot canoe 15 feet underwater; radiocarbon dating has now confirmed it is about 1,000 years old
Wisconsin diver finds 17-foot canoe underwater, radiocarbon dating puts it at 1,000 years (Image Credit: Wisconsin Historical Society) An ordinary...
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A Cleveland factory once belonged to America’s largest gasoline-car maker and faced demolition this year; a developer has now bought the 7.3-acre, 260,000-sq-ft complex for $300,000 and plans to reuse it
The four-parcel property in Cleveland’s Cudell neighborhood covers 7.3 acres and contains about 260,000 square feet of brick factory buildings....
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Greens would offer two-year jobs to unemployed under-24s
Young people would be offered a guaranteed two-year job within four months of leaving education or training, under a new...
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In 1916, the US began releasing Asian lady beetles to control aphids and scale insects; decades later Harmonia axyridis became invasive and was linked to declines of native ladybirds
The multicoloured Asian lady beetle was introduced to the United States with a clear purpose. Starting as early as 1916,...
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At age 6, Ohio girl Payton Obert raised $768 at one lemonade stand to buy toys for hospital patients; eight years later, her nonprofit had raised more than $5 million in money and donated goods
Photo: Payton’s Lemonade Stand/ Instagram What started with one little lemonade stand in Ohio has become a powerful source of...
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Laura Kuenssberg: Kemi Badenoch has cemented her image. Now she wants to take her party back to its roots
That follows the announcement of a new “tough love” approach for young people trying to claim benefits. Don’t expect the...
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Philip Rietveld assembled nearly 1,500 acres of Illinois and Indiana farmland over his lifetime; after his death in 2026, his family sold 23 tracts for $22.46 million, with one fetching $32,600 an acre
Over a lifetime of careful acquisitions, Philip Rietveld built a portfolio of nearly 1,500 acres of productive farmland across Illinois...
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Drew Barrymore’s grandfather once owned this Los Angeles estate; after Tony Scott bought and updated it, the property spent six years on the market before selling to her Charlie’s Angels director for $14.7 million
Built in the late 1920s by architect John Byers, the estate occupies just under an acre in Beverly Hills’ prestigious...
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A Florida owner planned 52 ten-acre homesites across his 625-acre cattle ranch if the county would not buy it; after two years of talks, officials agreed to pay $7.8 million and stop the development
Representative Image (AI-generated) A 625-acre cattle ranch in Collier County, Florida, is set to take a different path after county...
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Beth Feeback paid $9.99 for a North Carolina thrift-store painting she wanted to cover with cats; it proved to be an Ilya Bolotowsky work and sold at Sotheby’s for $34,375, including fees
A North Carolina artist once walked into a Goodwill store looking for inexpensive material for her own artwork and walked...
