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Im Mittelalter sucht sich der Rhein ein neues Bett. Duisburg, die alte Handelsmetropole, wird dadurch vom Fluss abgeschnitten und das benachbarte Ruhrort steigt zum neuer Knotenpunkt der Rheinschifffahrt auf. Der ab 1716 errichtete Hafen wird zur
When it's hot in Houston, there are restaurants for escape.
Updated July 22 In America’s least air-conditioned cities, brutal heat changes some people’s minds Is life without AC – a point of pride in Seattle, Portland and the Northwest – coming to an end? By Marc Fisher, Carissa Wolf and Michael HingstonThe Washington Post Share Scorched raspberry plants during the heat wave at a farm just outside of Portland, Ore., on June 30. Alisha Jucevic/The Washington Post In Boise, Idaho, where the temperature topped 97 for a stretch of 14 out of 15 days this month, Sarah O’Keefe refuses to give in. With the mercury repeatedly soaring into triple d...
When a private-equity firm bought a Philadelphia institution, the most vulnerable patients bore the cost.
A friendly meeting in a grove of trees; Shelter Island Quakers gathering every Sunday The gathering place every Sunday for the Shelter Island Friends Meeting. (Credit: Jim Pugh) The Shelter Island Friends Meeting is held every Sunday, as it has been all winter, at 10:30 a.m. at the Quaker monument on the Sylvester Manor grounds, 116 North Ferry Road. Jim Pugh of the Meeting said the gatherings take place under the trees, in a clearing of the woods, with log benches and a pavilion if it rains. Mr. Pugh said the Friends, also called Quakers, “are not soli...