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Image caption: Gracehill Moravian Church is one of five Moravian churches in Northern IrelandThe Taj Mahal, the Great Wall, the Egyptian Pyramids, and now Grace Hill.What do they all have in common?A Moravian village in County Antrim has been given special status by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) and has joined the ranks of World Heritage Sites around the world.The village was founded 264 years ago and is the only entirely Moravian settlement in Ireland.Article information Author: Sean Patrick Mulryan Role: BBC News NIJuly 26, 2024It will be the first site in Northern Ireland to be…

Chuck Shin, owner of Chuck’s Hop Shop, a beer store in Greenwood Central’s Seward Park neighborhood, experienced a bizarre Groundhog Day-like experience for small business owners when his storefront was broken into seven times last year. After spending $4,000 in a government grant and $6,000 of his own money to replace windows and doors, Singh considered putting iron bars on the frames but worried that customers would think the tasting room was unsafe, so he covered the broken windows in his Central District store with plywood and painted them burgundy to match the brick facade. “I was tired of replacing…

WASHINGTON — Suddenly, Kamala Harris’s economy is both a major opportunity and a potential risk for the Democratic presidential nominee.Shortly after President Joe Biden dropped out of the race a week ago, Harris began crafting her own version of the economy, focusing on ending child poverty, promoting unions, reducing health care and child care costs and protecting “dignity” in retirement.In speeches in Wisconsin, Indiana and Texas, she never once mentioned the word “inflation,” the overwhelming economic challenge that has dogged the Biden administration and forced it to consistently acknowledge in its remarks the pain of voters dealing with the rising…

WASHINGTON — Suddenly, Kamala Harris’s economy is both a major opportunity and a potential risk for the Democratic presidential nominee.Shortly after President Joe Biden dropped out of the race a week ago, Harris began crafting her own version of the economy, focusing on ending child poverty, promoting unions, reducing health care and child care costs and protecting “dignity” in retirement.In speeches in Wisconsin, Indiana and Texas, she never once mentioned the word “inflation,” the overwhelming economic challenge that has dogged the Biden administration and forced it to consistently acknowledge in its remarks the pain of voters dealing with the rising…

Is it just me, or are air travelers becoming more and more angry with each other this summer? Not so for passengers like Leigh Shulman, who admits she nearly lost her cool on a recent flight after staggering through the airport with a freshly broken ankle. “Other tourists were pushing me around,” she says. “They didn’t seem to notice the boots.” Ms. Shulman felt her blood pressure rise, and it continued for the entire trip. “I was on edge for hours,” she admits. She blames poor airport design, airline indifference and increasingly self-indulgent passengers. This summer will probably be the…

Soldiers, nurses and children appear in rubble-strewn battlefields, their faces expressing anguish, determination and pride – everything seems to be in motion as the figures move through the scenes of World War I.But the story is frozen in bronze.The dramatic 58-foot-long sculpture, “The Soldier’s Journey,” is the centerpiece and final element of Washington’s National World War I Memorial, located in Old Pershing Park, just four blocks from the White House.The 25-ton sculpture is scheduled to arrive in Washington on Saturday and, once installed in the coming weeks, will be the largest free-standing high-relief bronze statue in the Western Hemisphere, according…

Most Profitable Businesses by 2030 (according to ChatGPT) Getty ChatGPT is knowledgeable. ChatGPT will transform your entire routine, simplify your business and drive great results, becoming your content assistant, business coach and ideation partner. ChatGPT is trained with a huge amount of data from across the internet, so drawing patterns and making predictions is easy for this LLM. It can search for information faster than humans. I asked ChatGPT to predict which businesses will be the most profitable by 2030, based on everything we know about the world today. Combining mountains of data, the words of millions of people, and…

SAN FRANCISCO — “Move fast and break things” is a tech mantra popularized by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg 20 years ago that was meant to be a rallying cry for game-changing innovation. But now it seems more like a lament for a society built on digital foundations too fragile to withstand faulty software programs that were meant to protect computers, not crash them.The global technology disruption caused by a faulty update installed by cybersecurity specialist CrowdStrike on computers running Microsoft’s flagship Windows software earlier this month was so severe that some affected companies, including Delta Airlines, are still working to…

Downward angle icon. Downward angle icon. Russian military officers look at their smartphones while walking in front of the Kremlin in Moscow in April 2024. Photo by Contributor/Getty Images Russian soldiers rely heavily on their personal cellphones to conduct operations in Ukraine. Former U.S. military officers say the practice indicates a lack of secure communications and discipline. It also leaves Russian forces vulnerable to attack, a situation Ukraine has exploited before. Russian soldiers appear to be making heavy use of personal cell phones in conducting military operations in Ukraine, using them for tasks such as coordinating attacks and navigating the…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — “Move fast and break things” is a tech mantra popularized by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg 20 years ago that was meant to be a rallying cry for game-changing innovation. But now it seems like an elegy for a society built on digital foundations too fragile to withstand faulty software programs that were meant to protect computers, not crash them.The global technology disruption caused by a faulty update installed by cybersecurity specialist CrowdStrike on computers running Microsoft’s flagship Windows software earlier this month was so severe that some affected companies, including Delta Airlines, are still working to…