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Civil-rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune will not only replace Confederate Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith in the nation’s capitol, but she may take his spot in the Lake County History Museum, too.
The 'clink clink' of your New Year's Eve toast has an icy backstory CNN 12/31/2020 © Shutterstock If ever there was a year to toast drawing to an end, it's 2020. Over the festive period, people around the world will be raising a glass to better times ahead. Accompanying sighs of relief will likely be the subtle tinkling of ice. In researching a book on the social, medical and moral history of gin and tonic, I have imbibed -- moderately -- in bars from the Raffles Hotel in Singapore to the Morse Bar in Oxford. At each venue, my G&T was always served over ice.
Wayne Wood was just 5 or so when he first confronted Charles Adrian Pillars' masterpiece of a sculpture, looming over him at Memorial Park on the Jacksonville riverfront. Cast in bronze, designed to honor those from Florida who died in the horror of World War I, the sculpture portrays a nude, winged male figure. He's poised on one foot atop a stylized globe, holding an olive branch out to the sky. Below him rise the shapes of partial human figures, women and children, as if struggling to come out of the chaos of the world. It's called "Life." Visiting his grandmother in Riverside, up from ...
The innovative “frozen water” trade popularized ice. Dec 23rd, 2020 iStock If ever there was a year to toast drawing to an end, it’s 2020. Over the festive period, people around the world will be raising a glass to better times ahead. Accompanying sighs of relief will likely be the subtle tinkling of ice. In researching a book on the social, medical and moral history of gin and tonic, I have imbibed – moderately – in bars from the Raffles Hotel in Singapore to the Morse Bar in Oxford. At each venue, my G&T was always served over ice. The history of chilled drinks goes back to an...
December 22, 2020 Ten Confederate statues are still on display in the Capitol building after the removal of Virginia's Robert E. Lee sculpture. SHOW TRANSCRIPT The removal of the Robert E. Lee statue from the U.S. Capitol building Monday leaves 10 other Confederate sculptures on display in the complex, untouched by the reckoning over racially charged symbols that toppled statues in cities across the nation. The ones in the Capitol are protected by the heavily guarded halls of Congress and by law. “It’s not like changing a Wikipedia entry, that’s for certain,” said Tim Krepp, author of...