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Billionaire Michael Dell’s investment in Boca Raton’s luxury real estate is attracting wealthy buyers, with roughly 40% of its condos already sold, even though the project only went public a few months ago, according to the Post. For a resort that opened in 1926, selling homes on its own grounds is a new kind of…

The property, located at 29-31 Eldridge Street, stands next to Manchester’s new Main Street library. A plan to demolish a historic house in Manchester, Connecticut, to make space for additional library parking has faced opposition from the state’s Historic Preservation Council. The town purchased the two-family property for $455,000 in June 2026, intending to replace…

Representative Image (AI-generated) What do rabbits have to do with saving a rare seabird? On a small island off the coast of New South Wales, their presence was damaging the very habitat Gould’s petrels needed to survive. Getting rid of them became an important part of a much larger conservation effort. In 1997, conservationists successfully…

Millions of insecticide-treated mosquito nets distributed across Africa to prevent malaria are being repurposed as fishing gear, raising concerns about declining fish populations, damage to aquatic habitats and the unintended consequences of humanitarian aid. The issue, highlighted in reporting by the International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF) and National Geographic, illustrates how equipment designed…

The planetarium was included in Wright’s original plans for the Polk Science Building, which was constructed between 1954 and 1958. A planetarium designed by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright has reopened to the public in Florida, more than two decades after its projection system stopped working. Located at Florida Southern College in Lakeland, the restored…

PC: Sheldrick Wildlife Trust Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher visited the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust in Kenya, where they spent time with orphaned elephants at the Nairobi Nursery and older animals at Ithumba. The Trust’s account described the actors as captivated by the project and the individual stories of the elephants they encountered. Their visit…

Representative Image of The Macallan 1926 Fine & Rare whisky bottle displayed against an exclusive auction backdrop ( AI Generrated Image) On 9 October 2026, a bottle of The Macallan 1926 Fine & Rare whisky sold for £2,125,000 at auction, making it one of the most expensive bottles of whisky ever sold. The sale took…

A shipwreck found off the Croatian island of Vis has revealed an extraordinary collection of ancient pottery, personal belongings and surviving wooden remains inside a merchant vessel that once sailed the Adriatic Sea. The 2,300-year-old wreck has brought to light objects that offer a glimpse into the lives of sailors during the Hellenistic period. The…

When Francis Ford Coppola acquired the property in 1981, it was a disused hunting lodge In 1981, American filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola bought an abandoned hunting lodge in the forests of western Belize. The private retreat for his family later became Blancaneaux Lodge, a 20-room resort surrounded by pine forests, rivers and waterfalls. The property,…