Derby Arboretum Derby Arboretum may be the most modest stop on Olmsted’s itinerary, an 11-acre neighborhood park surrounded by middle-class brick houses in the city of Derby, less than an hour’s drive north of Birmingham. Built in 1840 by a wealthy local mill owner, the arboretum nonetheless holds an important title: the first public park […]
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This is Max Scherzer’s shot. Hurting so much over the weekend that it seemed his season might be over, Mad Max instead gets the ball for a final time — in Game 7 of the World Series. “That’s what you live for,” the Washington Nationals ace said. Baseball fans, same thing. A matchup devoid of
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YEN THANH, Vietnam — Across the village, the altar tables have already been set up. In Buddhist and Catholic households alike, families have not waited for the final word on whether their daughters, sons, brothers and sisters are among the 39 people found dead last week in a refrigerated truck container in an industrial park
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The relocation of hundreds of elephants to Malawi’s largest wildlife reserve was meant to be a sign of hope and renewal in this southern African nation. Then nearby residents began falling ill. The cause of the headaches, weakness and pain were trypanosomes, tiny parasites spread by the bite of the tsetste fly — a companion
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Jessica Biel is finally getting *NSYNC with her husband’s boy band past. “The Sinner” actor dressed up like her hubby Justin Timberlake for the Casamigos Halloween party on Friday in Beverly Hills, California, just days after Jimmy Fallon unearthed a 1999 interview of Biel saying she didn’t listen to *NSYNC back then. Biel and Timberlake tied the
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Image copyright Getty Images “Sarah”, an actor based in London, had her identity stolen in 2017. “I got home one day and found my post box had been broken into,” she says. “I had two new credit cards approved which I hadn’t applied for, and a letter from one bank, saying we’ve changed our mind
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Anthony Davis is four games into his first season with the Los Angeles Lakers, and he’s already in good company. Elgin Baylor, Wilt Chamberlain, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, George Mikan, Shaquille O’Neal — and now AD. Davis had the fourth 40-point, 20-rebound game of his seven-year career and set a franchise record with 26 made free throws
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The Federal Reserve is set to cut its benchmark interest rate Wednesday for a third time this year to help sustain the U.S. economic expansion in the face of widespread trade tensions and slower global growth. But the Fed’s policymakers will likely frustrate anyone who is hoping for a clear signal about what they may
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We’ve all gathered around campfires and heard about things that go bump in the night, but the truth is often stranger than fiction. Some of the most unsettling stories are not in storybooks, but in your local newspaper, or being picked apart obsessively on internet message boards. From a secret city with a population of
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Image copyright AFP Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal will leave the UK £70bn worse off than if it had remained in the EU, a study by the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR) has found. It concluded that growth would be 3.5% lower in 10 years’ time under the deal. The independent forecaster’s outlook
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