Tag: Botanical gardens

History, celebrity, leafy beauty live on at NYC cemetery

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NEW YORK — Michael Cumella, dressed in 1920s garb, laid his old Victrola record player down among the tombstones and turned to the small...

Artist gives nature a `cosmic’ twist in big NY garden show

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An expansive new show featuring works by Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, famous for mesmerizing polka dots, speckled pumpkins and fascination with the natural world,...

Czechs start to ease lockdown, youngest kids back to schools

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PRAGUE — As the coronavirus pandemic eases up in the Czech Republic, one of the European Union’s hardest-hit countries took its first steps on...

In quieter Mexico City, rare bats make an appearance

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MEXICO CITY — At a Mexico City university campus, researchers are stringing mesh nets between trees, hoping to capture evidence that a rare bat...