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The Daily Free Press

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Jean-Marie Appriou’s art installation, “Whale Song,” in Central Wharf Plaza. The installation represents the whale's mythological significance and Boston’s whaling history from the 19th century. COURTESY OF HANNAH BOUTIETTE

‘Whale Song’ art installation highlights Boston’s whaling history, mythological significance

Leia Green September 19, 2024
“Whale Song,” a new public art installation created by French artist Jean-Marie Appriou to demonstrate the historical and mythological significance of whales, premiered at Boston’s Central Wharf Park on Wednesday.
The Charles River. Flooding on the East Coast is getting worse and causing roadways to suffer. PHOTO BY PAIGE TWOMBLY/DFP FILE PHOTO

New England flooding: a more imminent threat than previously thought

Sarika Ram April 2, 2018
As sea levels rise, researchers predict that Boston’s roads are going to have to increasingly withstand high tide flooding, costing drivers millions of hours in traffic delays annually.

Worldview: An icy cold war and the fight for Greenland

David Damiano December 10, 2017

The immenseness of Greenland relative to its colonial overlord Denmark would puzzle the uninformed viewer about how this arrangement came to be. However, it is well-known that despite being 50 times the...

YANK-JACOBS: Britain would lose power from a European Union exit

YANK-JACOBS: Britain would lose power from a European Union exit

Kobe Yank-Jacobs March 2, 2016

Voters in the United Kingdom will be making an extraordinarily consequential choice on June 23, when they vote on whether or not to invoke Article 50 of the Treaty of Lisbon, which allows member states...

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