The lawn’s early closure that year, which usually is done over the winter, coincided with peak fall foliage-viewing season, putting a prime spot for autumn leaf lovers off limits.
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Thomas Tracy,
New York Daily News,
25 Sep. 2026
This year, there’s something for nearly every interest, from cheese lovers and bookworms to crafty adults and puzzle enthusiasts.
Slow Horses fanatics will recognize her as one of the veteran MI5 operatives stuck in the agency’s version of purgatory, known as Slough House.
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David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
13 Sep. 2026
Nineteen fanatics, acting in the name of Islam, killed 2,997 innocent men, women and children in New York City, in Washington, and on airplanes turned into weapons of mass murder.
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New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
11 Sep. 2026
Ecuador, Peru, and Chile draw nature enthusiasts seeking soft or active adventure; and each of these destinations is also often found on the lists of must-see places for the well-traveled.
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Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
30 Sep. 2026
The partnership will support conservation, research and digitization, making the collection more accessible to researchers and enthusiasts.
Local breeders, known as fanciers, would release their birds far from home and measure the time and distance covered to return.
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Sharyn Alfonsi,
CBS News,
26 Apr. 2026
Famous people were frequently asked to be judges, to lend cachet to the events—novelists Émile Zola and Pierre Loti were two of them (both writers were cat-fanciers, so were well qualified to be judges).
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