Negentropic Guggenheim | Map of cracks in museum facade due to temperature fluctuations. More at “Restoring a Masterpiece”
This Land Bridge, designed by Seattle firm Jones & Jones Architects and Landscape Architecture, connects Historic Ft. Vancouver, Washington to the Columbia River waterfront in the U.S.
The future: the Square Kilometre Array will be the largest and most capable radio telescope ever made. Photo: SKA Organisation/Swinburne Astro
According to Professor David Blight of Yale University, the first Memorial Day took place on May 1, 1865 in Charleston, SC, after a group of African-Americans, mostly former slaves, gave 257 Union soldiers a proper burial. The black community in Charleston then consecrated the new cemetary with “an unforgettable parade of 10,000 people,” led by 3,000 black school children. It was initially called “Decoration Day.”