Landmarks

1+ week, 4+ hour ago   (193+ words) NYERGESUJFALU – Like death itself, this was no joke. A grave-digging contest in a Hungarian cemetery may sound like the opening line of a comedy sketch. It proved to be anything but as 38 competitors grabbed picks and shovels on Saturday. The…...

1+ mon, 5+ day ago   (495+ words) WASHINGTON (7News) — American history is front and center at the National Museum of American History. Hidden in this history are women whose stories are often overlooked. "Women in this time period don't have an overt role in politics; they have a…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (761+ words) Name five things that you don’t see. We asked readers to play along with this historical puzzle. Their responses could not have been more varied. Some turned angry when they wrote about the changes during the past 60 years. Others waxed…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (23+ words) Revelers filled San Antonio's Pride Cultural Heritage District on Saturday night for the annual Pride Bigger Than Texas Festival and Night Parade, which...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (280+ words) An impressive estate in San Antonio’s Stone Oak Park is ideal for someone with a refined palate, in more ways than one. This 5,017-square-foot behemoth is going for just over $1.2 million, but it has the goods to back it up....

4+ mon, 1+ week ago   (938+ words) The Casino Club, one of the landmarks featured in a previous Amazing Preservation Race, is shown here under construction for the German-American social club whose ambitious plans for the structure were curtailed by the Great Depression. The city’s Office of…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago   (419+ words) Virginia Commonwealth University will spend $3.6 million on a memorial for dozens of people, most of African descent, whose bodies were stolen from their graves, dissected by medical students and then dumped in a forgotten well. The Richmond school’s board of…...

6+ mon, 5+ hour ago   (449+ words) Francesco Sportelli And Giada Zampano POMPEII – More than 20 plaster casts of victims who died in the catastrophic volcano eruption in Pompeii went on display for the first time Thursday in a permanent exhibition. The casts, which scholars call “imprints of…...

6+ mon, 3+ day ago   (877+ words) When San Antonio resident Maria Pfeiffer pays her respects to the dead, she does so as the descendent of people buried for over a century in at least two cemeteries on the city’s East Side. But Pfeiffer is also a…...

7+ mon, 2+ week ago   (157+ words) A Italian-style villa recently listed for $5 million in the posh Dominion enclave is equipped with just about any perk a high-end homeowner might want. First, there’s the infinity-style pool surrounded by lush terraces and visible from balconies along the rear…...