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Queen City was displaced when the Pentagon was built.Nekisha Durrett's artwork revives an often-forgotten piece of Northern Virginia history.At first glance, the new public art installation in Arlington's Metropolitan Park outside of Amazon's HQ2 campus looks fairly unassuming.While quite large, , the 35-foot-tall, 15-foot-wide cylindrical brick structure with "Queen City" written boldly on its exterior looks more like an old water tower than a deeply symbolic space-until you step inside.

Elliott Crosset Hove in "Godland."(Janus Films)StarOutline (2.5 stars) "Godland" is a motion picture, but it's keyed to seven still photographs made with the wet-plate process developed in the mid-19th century.According to an on-screen title early in this austere Danish-Icelandic drama, the recently discovered pictures were made by a Danish priest and are the first photographic images ever captured of Iceland's southeast coast.

Architect Tsukasa Ono designed this housing project on Japan's Yakushima island to have a positive impact on its natural setting, using a "regenerative" approach to improve the soil by promoting the growth of mycelium and bacteria.Sumu Yakushima is a community created by eight co-owners and situated on a hillside site forming part of a farm with views towards the sea.

Councilwoman Monica Rodriguez (Getty, Facebook, Abodu) A Los Angeles councilwoman has pitched a plan to let owners of illegal granny flats off the hook in return for offering affordable rents.Councilwoman Monica Rodriguez has filed a motion to create an amnesty program for legalizing unpermitted accessory dwelling units, also known as ADUs, the Los Angeles Daily News reported, citing City News Service.

Earlier this week, Typhoon Mawar whipped up a storm in western Micronesia as the category 4 storm came close to landfall on the island of Guam.Starting out as a tropical depression over the weekend, Mawar rapidly deepened and intensified over the following couple of days, almost reaching category 5 by Tuesday evening.

An abandoned village in Spain has been condemned to its third and final death after the rural activists who occupied it 10 years ago gave up the struggle to bring it back to life.Fraguas's first death came in the late 1960s, when it was expropriated by the Franco regime to make way for a huge reforestation programme; its second when it was used as an army training ground.

Daniela Thiesen is fighting for the hospital in her small hometown of Adenau, in western Germany.Despite the freezing temperatures, she has taken to the street to protest against the planned closure of the city's only hospital, the St. Josef Clinic, scheduled for the end of March 2023."We also need good clinics in the countryside, not second-class care," said Thiesen, who is involved in the citizens' initiative for health care in the town of 3,000 inhabitants.

Shortly after D-Day during World War II, French resistance fighters took 47 captured German soldiers to a small wooden area in southwest-central France.In the scorching heat, they forced the soldiers to dig their own graves, shot them dead one by one and buried the bodies, covering the remains with quicklime, according to a witness.

Before Sierra Leone's capital of Freetown exploded into a sprawling metropolis eating up wooded hills and encroaching on the Atlantic Eugenia Kargbo loved it for the pristine beaches and lush forests that once enveloped the city, and for its green landscape.Ms. Kargbo, who grew up in the capital in the 1990s, would like to see the city reclaim those vistas.

An explosion at a residential building in western Germany injured at least a dozen people Thursday, some of them seriously, a senior security official said.The interior minister of North Rhine-Westphalia state, Herbert Reul, told regional lawmakers that 10 firefighters and two police officers were injured in the blast at a high-rise building in the town of Ratingen.

THE ARCHITECTURAL CONSERVATOR Alaa el-Habashi had been restoring a 190-room 15th-century palace for years in the historic Cairo neighborhood of al-Darb al-Ahmar when, in 2007, he and his engineer wife, Ola Said, stumbled on a spectacularly bedraggled house nearby that would consume the next decade and a half of their lives.

In a press release published by Sante publique France on Monday evening, the health authority noted that multiple climatic phenomena occurred during the summer, calling it the hottest since 1900 with a significant health impact.The data covers June to September and lists 10,420 excess deaths  that is deaths in excess of the average for the summer season.

In a press release published by Sante publique France on Monday evening, the health authority noted that multiple climatic phenomena occurred during the summer, calling it the hottest since 1900 with a significant health impact.The data covers June to September and lists 10,420 excess deaths  that is deaths in excess of the average for the summer season.

Living on the Edge is a book that celebrates clifftop houses.Here, author Agata Toromanoff selects 10 of her favourites, from a cabin in the Italian Alps to a villa on the Mexican Pacific coast.Hard to access, prone to extreme weather and environmentally delicate, cliff edges are among the most difficult sites to develop.

For the first two months of this year, I was ill.I don't mean the kind of ill that you can soldier on through, sniffing as you go.I mean properly, cancel-everything-and-take-to-your-bed ill.I was not sure when I would feel well again, and that was a problem because I had a book that was about to be published a book about rekindling awe, wonder and fascination.

The King faced anti-monarchy protesters during a visit celebrating Milton Keynes being awarded city status but chants of God save the King drowned out the demonstrators.Charles had travelled alone to Milton Keynes after it was announced on Monday the Queen Consort had tested positive for Covid and he told one well-wisher She's getting better.

Mental health is an issue that affects many.According to the Spanish Confederation of Mental Health, one in four people in Spain has or will have a mental health problem in their lifetime.La Rioja has become the first region in Spain to try and address the issue by bringing in a specific mental health law.

Parlour Victoria, an American seafood tavern housed in a Victorian Era row home, opens on Wednesday, February 15.The two-story restaurant and bar in DC's Mount Vernon Triangle neighborhood will serve lunch and dinner (weekend brunch is coming in March).Upstairs, a whiskey bar offers over 100 brown spirits and nightly live acoustic music.

Paul Dessau was one of the most significant composers in the German Democratic Republic.Having grown up in Germany, Dessau spent the second world war years in the US, composing film scores before returning to the newly formed GDR in 1948, where he worked with Bertolt Brecht's Berliner Ensemble.Though his first opera, The Trial of Lucullus, was condemned by the Communist party for its formalism soon after its 1951 premiere, Dessau rapidly became an influential figure in the musical life of the GDR.

The unfortunate Jacob Lee, The Callisto Protocol protagonist beset by the game's countless horrors.Striking Distance Studios 2008's Dead Space hit the gaming world like a gut-punch.Terrifying and brilliantly immersive, it showed how much a game could get us to tense up and squirm in our seats.Now, Dead Space's director, Glen Schofield, is back with The Callisto Protocol.

As migrant arrivals go, the appearance of Thor the Walrus in British waters last week was encouraging.Thousands flocked to greet the huge mammal as he meandered up England's east coast after his arrival in Hampshire in December.Subsequent stopovers included Scarborough, where the local council cancelled New Year's Eve celebrations so they did not frighten Thor, who gratefully responded by masturbating.

After a 13-year wait, the second installment of James Cameron's Avatar series, Avatar: The Way of Water, has arrived and is set to be a box office hit.Despite its flaws, the movie is a visual spectacle, with stunning shots of the planet Pandora's ecological system and inhabitants, the 10-foot-tall, slender blue aliens known as the Na'vi, rendered in computer-generated imagery that looks mind-bogglingly real.

Lo!An angel of the lord chief justice did come down among us.And he did say that Christmas dreams should all come true.Suella Braverman was sore amazed and did fall to her knees in thanks.The lord chief justice was indeed bountiful.If not entirely merciful.The home secretary did well remember her dreams that had been revealed to her in her sleep.

Denmark's autonomous Faroe Islands have renewed a fishing quota deal with Russia for one year despite Moscow's invasion of Ukraine, a local minister said on Saturday.Published: 26 November 2022 14:11 CET The Faroe Islands are totally right to extend their existing fishing agreement with Russia, the North Atlantic archipelago's minister of fisheries Arni Skaale told the Jyllands-Posten daily.

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In celebration of Local Comic Shop Day, which honors the role of locally owned, independent comic shops as "fire-starters of pop culture," Cosmic Monkey will offer a special selection of premium titles, listed here.(Cosmic Monkey Comics, Rose City Park, free)
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Show off your pride and grab holiday gifts crafted by local LGBTQ2SIA+ artists at this wintry pop-up market, where visitors will find sparkly ceramics, textiles, jewelry, accessories, housewares, and more at the Art Design Xchange (ADX) creative space.