Posted August 21, 2023 at 1:21 p.m. ET Updated August 21, 2023 at 2:49 p.m. ET Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, left, welcomes Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to the Maximos mansion in Athens, Greece, Monday, August 21, 2023. Zelenskyy traveled to Greece on Monday for talks with the country’s leaders and to attend at an informal meeting of Balkan leaders with senior European Union officials. (AP Photo/Thanasis Stavrakis) ATHENS, GREECE — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky traveled to Greece on Monday for talks with the country’s leaders and to attend an informal meeting of Balkan leaders with senior European Union officials.Zelensky…
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Floods that killed thousands in the Libyan city of Derna also inundated one of the country’s major ancient sites, threatening its UNESCO-listed monuments with collapse, a recent visitor and renowned archaeologist said . Immediate damage to Cyrene’s monuments, including the 2nd-century AD Temple of Zeus, larger than the Parthenon in Athens, is relatively minor, but water circulating around their foundations threatens future collapses , declared the head of the French archaeological mission in Libya. Vincent Michel, told AFP. Settled on the Greek island of Santorini around 600 BC, Cyrene was one of the main centers of the classical world for…
(Photo: Stéphanie A. Terry / Wikimedia Commons)UNESCO has added Ohio’s ancient Native American cemeteries to world heritage status. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. Historic American Indian cemeteries built in Ohio more than 2,000 years ago are now recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. New UNESCO World Heritage Site Ohio’s network of prehistoric Native American burial mounds and ceremonies, which have been likened to cathedrals, cemeteries and astronomical observatories, was added to the UNESCO World Heritage list Tuesday. The Fort Ancient State Memorial in Oregonia, Warren County, is one of the sites…
By David SilverbergBusiness journalist, TorontoJuly 10, 2023Legend, Vithushan Namasivayasivam is now the boss of a successful training companySuccess in business is rightly celebrated, but should failure also be celebrated?When Vithushan Namasivayasivam previously worked as a software engineer for one of the world’s leading music streamers, he made a huge mistake.It was the kind of mistake you usually don’t want to share with a room full of strangers. But Mr Namasivayasivam recently revealed his mistake to dozens of people at an event in Toronto, Canada.His mistake seven years ago involved his work to ensure that when bands and solo artists submitted…
Published August 16, 2023 at 9:50 a.m. ET HOUSTON — Occidental Petroleum Corp. signed an agreement to buy Canadian company Carbon Engineering Ltd. for 1.1 billion US dollars.The company worked with Carbon Engineering on its direct air capture technology, used to capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.Occidental announced last week that it had been selected to receive a U.S. government grant to develop a factory in Texas designed to use the technology.Upon closing, Carbon Engineering will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Oxy Low Carbon Ventures.Carbon Engineering’s research and development activities and innovation center will remain in Squamish, British Columbia.The…
Little Amalthe 12-foot-tall puppet of a 10-year-old Syrian refugee, will soon arrive in Atlanta as part of its journey to 15 countries and 35 U.S. cities to bring its message of hope and solidarity to displaced people around the world. .To celebrate his arrival, the Michael C. Carlos Museum and Emory Libraries will present an event focused on the plight of the ever-growing refugee population.“Comedy and Conversations” – a critical, concerned and sometimes comic look at the world around us – will take place at the Carlos Museum on Wednesday September 27 at 7:30 p.m. Registration is required.Before the program,…
Gordion, Turkey, has been designated a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. (Unesco World Heritage—the first site currently under active excavation by the Penn Museum to add to the list. The announcement took place during the 45th meeting of the World Heritage Committee in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, officially recognizing the long-standing cultural and archaeological significance of Gordion. Penn Museum archaeologist C. Brian Rose, director of the Gordion excavation. (Image: Tom Stanley for the Penn Museum) With a rich history spanning over 4,000 years, from the Early Bronze Age (2,400 BCE) to the Medieval period, the ancient city of Gordion…
Posthumously named president of Temple University, JoAnne A. Epps, JD, the first black woman in the school’s history to hold this prestigious position, fell ill on stage during a memorial service related to the the institution and was pronounced dead a few hours later, on September 19. Epps, 72, was scheduled to speak at the memorial service for art curator, historian and author Charles L. Blockson, who curated Blockson’s extensive African-American collection at Temple’s Sullivan Hall. After slumping in her chair and being carried out of the room, Professor Kimmika Williams-Witherspoon, the university’s senior associate dean, resumed the late educator’s…
Posted August 22, 2023 at 2:03 p.m. ET Click to enlarge As fire crews and military personnel battle wildfires in British Columbia and the Northwest Territories, NASA mapping data shows where conditions are improving and where they are expected to deteriorate.Created by NASA and the Forest Service of the United States Department of Agriculture, the Fire Information for the United States/Canada Resource Management System (FIRMS) shows real-time updates of active wildfires burning in Canada and the United StatesThe latest mapping data, as of Tuesday, continues to show orange flame icons across most areas of western, northwest and central Canada, indicating…