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France’s Top Court Overturns Burkini Ban
French swimmers may keep wearing what they please
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The Fight to Preserve Langston Hughes’ Harlem Home From Gentrification
A new kind of Harlem renaissance is threatening the home of one of America’s greatest poets
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Help Crowdsource the History of Wine
The University of California, Davis, is looking for online volunteers to help catalog and describe 5,200 wine labels
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Hearst Castle Has a Brush With California’s Wildfires
Curators were ready to evacuate the Hearst Estate, now a state park and museum full of priceless art, furniture and history
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Explore Some of America’s Greatest National Parks in Virtual Reality
The next best thing to celebrating the Centennial in person
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Inside the Upcoming Memorial and Museum Dedicated to Lynching Victims
Spanning slavery to segregation to mass incarceration
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Why London’s New Abstract Expressionism Show Is a Big Deal
It’s a survey of luminaries from Pollock to De Kooning
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Harvard Just Launched a Fascinating Resource All About Bauhaus
The newly digitized collection is as ambitious as the art school it documents
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How the Library of Congress Is Digitizing Its Braille Music Collection
It’s not as simple as putting it through a scanner
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Love Truman Capote? Buy His Ashes
Is the sale of Capote’s earthy remains a gauche publicity stunt or an act worthy of the audacious author?
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Gulp: The World’s Highest, Longest Glass Bridge Opens in China
The new bridge in Hunan’s Zhangjiajie Forest Park overlooks the mountains that inspired Avatar
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Explore Johnny Cash’s Tennessee Ranch-Turned Museum
Complete with a car built “one piece at a time”
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This Olympic Medal Is Even Harder to Win Than the Gold
The International Olympic Committee values sportsmanship above all else
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Finland’s Hot New Karaoke Bar Is a Public Library
Don’t stop believin’ in the power of music
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The Robe Volante, the First Comfortable Dress in France, Sells for $150,000
The sweatpants of its day for courtiers, the style was a rebellion against the elaborate, corseted dresses of Louis XIV’s court
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Sorry, Sweetie: American Bar Association Bans Sexist Language in Court
Under a new rule, attorneys could be fined or suspended for using derogatory language while they practice law
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Germany Is Reworking the Commission That Handles Restitution for Nazi-Looted Art
A lackluster track record and controversial comments led to a shift
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“New Lucy” Is Unveiled Nearby “Scary Lucy” in Lucille Ball’s Hometown
It’s a tale of two Lucys
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