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During Capshaw and Gavigan’s ownership, the property underwent a major renovation Actress Jessica Capshaw and her husband, Christopher Gavigan, sold their longtime Santa Monica home for $5.75 million in 2020. The sale was completed through an off-market deal, according to the Los Angeles Times.The couple had bought the house in 2007 through a limited liability…

File photo: People protest after police raided a gay bar ahead of the annual Taiwan Pride parade, in Taipei, Taiwan Around 100 members of Taipei’s LGBTQ+ community protested on Sunday after police raided a gay bar the previous day and detained 51 people, an unusual move in Taiwan, which has long projected a liberal image…

Sandra Bullock has an Academy Award, a Golden Globe and, in 2010 and again in 2014, was ranked as the highest-paid actress in the world. Ask her where her money did the most good, and the answer is not a film deal.It is a flooded high school in New Orleans. Bullock has backed Warren Easton…

Jeryl Lynn comforts her crying sister Kirsten during a 1966 vaccination with the Jeryl Lynn Strain. In 1963, vaccine researcher Dr Maurice Hilleman was working to develop a safe and effective vaccine against mumps when his five-year-old daughter, Jeryl Lynn, developed the disease. One night, Jeryl Lynn woke Hilleman and showed him her swollen cheeks,…

Godfrey Hounsfield stands beside the EMI-Scanner in 1972 and modern CT scans provide much higher resolution images of the ‘slices’ of the brain than Hounsfield’s original scan did in 1971. What if the contents of a sealed box could be revealed without ever opening it? For British engineer Godfrey Hounsfield, the question began with an…

Zelenskyy vows refinery strikes as infrastructure warfare escalates Ukraine has vowed to step up attacks on Russian oil refineries in response to what president Volodymyr Zelenskyy described as a new Russian strategy of targeting infrastructure across Ukrainian cities, including energy, transport and logistics networks.Zelenskyy told Reuters that Ukrainian intelligence had obtained documents indicating that Russian…

A routine infrastructure project in Oceanside, California, has uncovered a glimpse of a world that existed tens of millions of years before humans. The City of Oceanside first announced the discovery on September 22, while reporting from the Los Angeles Times, NBC 7 San Diego and the San Diego Union-Tribune provided additional details about the…

Some historic homes are preserved by restoring their walls, replacing their old roofs, and repairing the damage. But the Randolph-Lucas-Jones House in Atlanta required something else. It needed a police escort, utility crews to lift power lines out of its path, and a roof hinged down so each half could clear the route. Built in…

The teapot was about 9cm high and 17.5cm across. Its cover was missing, while the handle had broken off and been restuck. A UK collector who paid just £15 for a broken, lidless teapot at an auction in 2016 later discovered that the piece was one of the rarest known examples of early American porcelain….