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Seed catalogs are out, and it’s time to select spring garden plants, with tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, beans and squash being the popular choices. These are all grown as annuals, plants that grow for ...

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With his immense wealth, Meyer built a Scottish castle atop a 10-acre sand dune in Dyer that was the highest point in Lake County. He hired the architect Cosbey Bemard Sr. to recreate the Jacobethan ...

The Apple AirTag is arguably one of the easiest ways to track down lost valuables like a purse or luggage during travel. It ...

The Ming doctor Li Shizhen’s pharmacopoeia is widely known in China, and the man himself has appeared on postage stamps and ...

The sustainable practices that underlie agroforestry can be administered on any scale — from large swaths of cropland to ...

$5 million: the matching grant Alpert’s foundation gave the New Orleans Jazz Museum, making him the largest benefactor of the ...

New Orleans starting wing Herb Jones, who has not appeared in a game since Oct. 29 at Golden State, was upgraded to doubtful on Monday’s official injury report. Jones has been sidelined due to a ...

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A collection of 2024 holiday catalogs are displayed Monday, Nov. 25, 2024, in Freeport, Maine. Catalog ...