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Via Metafilter , we learn that a cross-bench committee of peers of the House of Lords are debating amendments to the planning and infrast...

Courtesy of Things Magazine , we are referred to a rather fascinating look at how a battery of psychological experiments conducted at th...

Realising that that’s hardly the point of the proposed redevelopment scheme under the above acronym for Gaza Reconstitution, Economic Acc...

Whilst assigned light duty convalescing from an injury in battle with a regiment of the corps of engineers working on the construction of ...

Via Nag on the Lake —and reminiscent of the magical realism of the painter Rob Gonsalves though a bit over-articulated by AI—we enjoyed ...

Topping off on this day in 1975 with last segment of the antenna installed by helicopter skycrane, the Toronto communications and observat...

dromedary : Ze Frank’s True Facts ( previously ) about the camel  client state : secretary of defence Hegseth orders Cyber Command to halt R...

Long in planning, the Freedom and Unity Monument slated for Berlin ( see previously ) has missed another opportune inauguration and seems...

Via Quantum of Sollazzo , we are directed to a highly visual piece of reporting from Reuters highlighting the dangers and deficiencies in ...

Reluctantly we headed back home after our adventures in Italy and Switzerland, this time consulting more local sources and news, discovered...

Earthmoving equipment for the construction of a new airport in northwest Crete, to replace the current second largest one in Heraklion ...

Via Kottke , we that the inaugural World Umarlling Championship has been announced and is taking submissions, giving us a chance to re...

As our faithful chronicler reminds , on this day in 1970, around noon a group of more than four-hundred construction workers—many working...

For the anniversary of the laying of the ground stone for the largest unfinished Catholic church in the world ( see also ) initially under ...

Reminiscent of the transformation of the Colossus of Prora into luxury vacation properties, we learned that there has been a similar reha...

a portrait of justice : the iconography of Ruth Bader-Ginsburg’s judicial collars— see previously   kreuz am bichl : a uniquely divided ...

Though later inaugurated by the respective heads of state over a century later, on this day in 1867 Queen Victoria and Napoleon III ...

On this day in 1933, construction of the Golden Gate Bridge (see previously here and here ) began under the initial direction and design o...

Captured on this day in 1932 by the appointed Photographic Director for the documentation of the Rockefeller Center’s construction, Charles...

Among many other anniversaries of the great and good, on this day, as our faithful chronicler informs, in 1937, the Golden Gate Bridge link...