Julian Fellowes, the creator of Downton Abbey, has set his new HBO series in America. The Gilded Age, a 10-episode historical drama, takes place during the late 19th century. Filming took place in the Sleepy Hollow area in November.
According to an HBO release, the series is set in 1882 during a period of immense economic change; huge fortunes were made in the era coined The Gilded Age.
Many of those fortunes were used to build lavish estates in the Hudson Valley, including today s Sleepy Hollow Country Club which began life in 1893 as a 75-room mansion for a Vanderbilt and the ultimate Gilded Age spread, Kykuit, the estate of John D. Rockefeller.
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ISIS weapons depot located by the Iraqi army north of Baghdad.
Rockets found in the weapons depot (Facebook page of Iraqi Army Spokesman Yahya Rasoul, December 20, 2020)
Three ISIS operatives detained by the Iraqi Counterterrorism Apparatus (Facebook page of the Iraqi Counterterrorism Unit, December 19, 2020)
Main events of the past week
Routine attacks continued in ISIS’s various provinces in Syria, Iraq and throughout Africa and Asia. Noteworthy examples:
Syria: routine activity continued in the area of Deir al-Zor and Al-Mayadeen and in the desert region west of the Euphrates Valley. Prominent modus operandi of ISIS’s attacks included targeted killings and the activation of IEDs against vehicles and soldiers of the SDF and the Syrian army.
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Only 12 men have ever walked on the moon – and one of them grew up in Montclair, N.J.
Now the boyhood home of Apollo 11 astronaut Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin is up for sale, with the family that currently owns the property asking for about $1 million, according to reports.
But neighbor Ilmar Vanderer, an architect, is trying to win support for a plan to convert the seven-bedroom house into a museum honoring Aldrin, who lived there from birth until he left Montclair to attend the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y.