The story has become so ingrained in the imagination of Brazilians that even today, John Bosco is considered the capital’s patron saint, with both a chapel and a church named after him.
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Sophia La Banca,
JSTOR Daily,
11 Mar. 2026
Additional structures include a 2,000-square-foot art studio and a 2,175-square-foot art gallery, as well as a two-story guesthouse, a private chapel donning a replica of Michelangelo’s Pietà statue, an observatory, and an auto showroom with a 12-car garage.
Developed to support future missions to Mars, the robot was envisioned to perform early deployment tasks and maintain infrastructure on the Red Planet before astronauts arrive.
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Jijo Malayil,
Interesting Engineering,
9 Mar. 2026
What’s unfolding on the Cape Fear is a preview of a much larger regulatory blind spot in the Corps’s national mission and the broader maritime economy.
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Patrick Sisson,
Scientific American,
9 Mar. 2026
No Route 66 road trip is complete without a stop at the First Original McDonald’s Museum in San Bernardino, California, a veritable shrine to the golden arches.
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Zoey Goto,
Travel + Leisure,
8 Mar. 2026
On Friday night, three people were taken into custody amid a clash between pro-Iranian regime demonstrators, who erected a shrine to the slain Ayatollah Ali Hosseini Khamenei, the former supreme leader of Iran, and anti-Khamenei protesters at Washington Square Park.
The abbey sits at the end of a steep road in the foothills of the Festungsberg, removed from the bustle of Salzburg's Old Town.
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Rachel Chang,
Travel + Leisure,
3 Mar. 2026
Published in 1842, Poe’s story follows Prince Prospero, who retreats with a group of nobles into a fortified abbey as a deadly plague ravages the countryside.
The show took him to Jerusalem’s Wailing Wall, India’s Bodhi Tree, Mayan temples in Guatemala, the pyramids of Egypt and the banks of the Ganges River.
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Ben Crandell,
Sun Sentinel,
7 Mar. 2026
Its open-air ancient ruins—temples, houses, theaters—are well-preserved and include the Terrace of Lions, private residences, and the Sanctuary of Apollo.
Straddling the rugged mountains between the states of Mexico and Michoacán, the 138,000-acre reserve has around a half dozen public, community-run sanctuaries within its borders and in its buffer zones.
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Jen Murphy,
Travel + Leisure,
10 Mar. 2026
In an area where fire danger is always a lingering reality, loss is not an unfamiliar theme at this Malibu sanctuary.
Vandals broke into a Catholic school in Long Beach overnight Monday, stealing church items, damaging statues and tossing the tabernacle to the ground, according to police and school officials.
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Summer Lin,
Los Angeles Times,
3 Feb. 2026
Among the damage is a smashed statue of The Virgin Mary, other religious artifacts, like the tabernacle that stores communion, and destroyed furniture.
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