Flat Rock, Ga., where slaves and their descendants have lived for two centuries, has opened an archives center in south DeKalb County.
The contents of the center are almost entirely church and family records gathered by two community activists who have worked for three decades to chronicle Flat Rock's history.
The Queen Mary 2, Queen Elizabeth 2 and the Queen Victoria will meet Jan. 13 in the waters off Manhattan, with the Statue of Liberty as a backdrop and fireworks celebrating the event.
The spectacle can be seen from Battery Park on Manhattan's southern shore; and Robert F. Wagner Jr. Park, south of the Museum of Jewish Heritage.
The restored ruins of two opulent villas and private thermal baths in Rome have opened to the public.
A 2,000-square-yard complex, dating from the second to fourth centuries, features well-preserved mosaic and marble floors, bathtubs and collapsed walls.
A citizens group has taken aim at one of the few remaining outposts of industry on Manhattan's reborn Hudson River waterfront: a helipad.
oversees the park has let the helipad stay.
Billionaire banker T. Denny Sanford of Sioux Falls, S.D., has pledged a $5 million matching grant to the Crazy Horse Memorial Foundation, the largest in the mountain carving's almost 60-year history.