Author: Ms. R.

Tony DeMarco was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in Canastota, New York, in 2019. The honor came after a storied 71-fight career that captured the hearts of boxing fans around the world.  The former World Welterweight Champion, who fought professionally from 1948 to 1962, was born Leonardo Liotta to Sicilian immigrant parents on January 14, 1932. He grew up in the North End neighborhood of Boston. Liotta turned professional as a boxer in 1948, at the age……

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In 1995, elders from the Hopi Tribe traveled to the Harvard Peabody Museum to retrieve three Hopi “Friends,” or ceremonial masks. It should have been a moment for celebration: After decades of being stored in stacks or displayed for the public, many of the items would finally be going home. But during the visit, the Hopi representatives were also given gloves and respirators, and cautioned against direct contact with the objects. The museum curators couldn’t be sure, but they……

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The area around the coast of Calabria, near the town of Isola di Capo Rizzuto, is part of the Marine Protected Area of Capo Rizzuto, the largest of its kind in Italy. On a small peninsula along this coast, this beautiful castle cannot be missed. Known now as Castello Aragonese, the structure dates back to the Greek colonization of Southern Italy, an area then called Magna Graecia. The Greeks built a fortress on the peninsula around the 5th-century BC……

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A pharmacy is usually not the first place you’d think to visit when vacationing in a new city. However, in the city of Imola, a visit to the Farmacia Comunale dell’ Ospedale is like walking through a museum.  The building dates back to the 15th-century and the Farmacia dell’Ospedale was inaugurated around 1794, however, the interior has remained virtually unchanged. Inside are more than 400 antique majolica vases known as albarellis, with the names of various medicaments written on the……

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Efrain Cab, a 34-year-old beekeeper who runs a hotline for stingless bees in need, stood in front of the wall of a hotel in Playa del Carmen, Mexico, with a hammer in his hand. He had responded to an emergency text from 11-year-old Eugenia, who had secretly contacted Cab from her mother’s phone. She wanted to save the bees her parents intended to fumigate. Eugenia now pointed at a small hole in a brick wall. “Put pieces of tissue……

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The Principality of Monaco paid tribute to the memory of Juan Manuel Fangio, a five-time Formula One world champion, with a life-sized bronze statue of the Argentine driver. It was at this location that he won races in 1950 and 1957. Fangio, also known as El Chueco, was considered one of the best Formula One car drivers in the world. The statue of the famed driver was dedicated by Prince Albert of Monaco. The event was attended by other car……

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