18th century booze bottles found intact on mystery shipwreck off Florida, state says
Seven months of painstaking lab work revealed two encrusted orbs found off Florida’s Atlantic Coast are rare examples of 300-year-old “onion bottles,” state historians say. The “especially fragile” ...
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This 18th-Century Painting Could Rewrite Black History in Britain
New research into the life of a Black child servant in an 18th century portrait reveals how he became a musician for the ...
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Ooh La La—California Home That’s Like Living in 18th-Century France Hits the Market
A gilded Versailles-esque home in Topanga, California, designed entirely in the authentic style of 18th-century French Rococo ...
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Spain-Gibraltar passport checks briefly re-established, causing queues
Spanish police briefly re-established border controls for Gibraltar on Friday, the Gibraltar government said, causing long lines of rush hour workers on both sides of the border as the enclave also ...
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Spain urges UK to sign Gibraltar deal before new EU travel checks
Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares on Wednesday urged Britain to close a deal on the post-Brexit status of the ...
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Before the AI craze, the rise of automatons in the 18th century
Long before AI and robotics shaped our modern world, the 18th century witnessed the rise of automata — mechanical wonders ...