Click Here to Read: The Walls Have Ears by Mark Rothschild on his Accidental Wisdom Substack on June 13, 2026.
Vienna’s Leopoldstadt district. Image: Ralf Roletschek. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
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What makes a Stradivarius violin so special?
Click Here to Read: What makes a Stradivarius violin so special? Scientists traced it to one forest in Italy. A new tree-ring study solves the mystery of where the famed instrument-maker Anton Stradivari sourced timber for his violins during his “golden age.” By Richard Kemeny on the National Geographic Website on June 9, 2026.
Gould Stradivarius. Metropolitan Museum of Art. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons. 
Sagrada Família’s 144-year journey nears its end with the Tower of Jesus Christ
Click Here to Read: Sagrada Família’s 144-year journey nears its end with the Tower of Jesus Christ By Pau Mosquera, CNN; Photographs by Maria Contreras Coll for CNN on the CNN website on June 8. 2026.
Click Here to Read: The Basilica Sagrada Familia’s website.
The Sagrada Familia viewed from Casa Milà, Barcelona, Spain Image: Bernard Gagnon. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
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Scientists may have just solved the Euphrates River’s mysterious origins
Click Here to Read: Scientists may have just solved the Euphrates River’s mysterious origins: New research has revealed insight into the evolution of this influential waterway, which may have been created when two ancient rivers coalesced ByNoah Kirsch on the National Geographic website on June 1, 2026 .
The Euphrates River in Turkey, Rumkale Image: Carole Raddato from Frankfurt, Germany. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commosn.
Darryl Pinckney, The Art of Nonfiction
Memories on Memorial Day: Reverence and remembrance
Click Here to Read: Memories on Memorial Day: Reverence and remembrance: by Elliot Kirschner on his Through the Fog substack on May 25, 2026.
A U.S. Army 3d U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard) Soldier places American flags at headstones in Section 64 of Arlington National Cemetery during Flags In, May 21, 2015, in Arlington, Va. The Old Guard has held this honor and privilege of conducting Flags In since 1948/ Image: The U.S. Army Rachel Larue/Arlington National Cemetery. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
