Representative Image of an old hotel built around a renovated railway station near giant petrified redwood stumps (AI Generated Image) In the spring of 1923, John D. Coplen opened a hotel on his ranch in Florissant, Colorado, built around the town’s old railway station, which he had moved onto the property and renovated into a…

Image: Guinness World Records In 1985, Denise Bella Vlasis was simply a high-school student who happened to be good at singing and dancing. When her mother asked her to entertain children at a holiday party, she decided to perform a few songs by Madonna, whose career was rapidly taking off at the time. What seemed…

Representative Image of the reconstructed Thomas James Bridge with original sandstone blocks and modern foundations, showcasing flood resilience (AI Generated Image) Thomas James Bridge, also known as Settlers Road Bridge, crosses a creek near Lower Macdonald in New South Wales and holds a rare distinction: it is the oldest in-use vehicle bridge on mainland Australia….

Ukraine’s battlefield data fuels new AI market (AI-generated image) Ukraine’s war with Russia is generating a resource that could outlive the conflict itself. Reports suggest that vast amounts of battlefield data are increasingly being used to train artificial intelligence systems, creating a new and largely unregulated market around the technology.Every drone flight can generate thousands…

High in the Blue Ridge Mountains of western North Carolina, a quiet story of faith, education and land stewardship has unfolded over nearly two centuries. In 1842, a mission school opened on what was then rugged mountain farmland in the Valle Crucis valley, near present day Boone. For more than 130 years, religious and educational…