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The article discusses the exhibition "In Slavery's Wake: Making Black Freedom in the World" at the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, which explores the impact of the transatlantic slave trade. The exhibition showcases artifacts, including cowrie shells from Rio de Janeiro, symbolizing the difficulties of understanding the enormity of slavery. It highlights the forced migration of 12 million Africans over 36,000 voyages and how it reshaped societies on both sides of the Atlantic. [Extracted from the article]

Reports on updates relating to tourist trade. Canadian passenger train system's plans in encouraging day trips along its Quebec City-Windsor, Ontario corridor, by selling its economy-class tickets at half price for July 17, 2004 travel between certain pairs of cities; Opening of Hello, Conrad Hotel in Miami, Florida; Opening of a 146-room Courtyard by Marriott in Saratoga Springs in New York.

Reports that jazz pianist Oscar Peterson's adorns the courtyard of the Toronto-Dominion Center in Toronto, Ontario.

The article focuses on the reason why buyers want property in Florence, Italy. It says that buyers are heading for green hills in Fiesole, while there are increasing demand for residential suburbs, such as Poggio Imperiale beyond the Boboli Gardens. It states that Florence is a city where houses are hidden behind stern stone walls and oak doors, softened only by interior courtyards. Moreover, buyers want the culture and the history of Florence and they prefer it to Milan and Rome.

BEIT EL, West Bank -- The rooms are much smaller, with kitchens running along a wall of the salon rather than in a separate space. But freshly potted flowers and trees awaited the new residents on each doorstep. There are no hilltop views, no grassy yards, though neighbors share courtyard patios of the same red brick that formed a path behind the old place. Gas, sewage, water, air-conditioning and electricity -- including timers for Shabbat -- were all in place on Tuesday as families ousted from the disputed neighborhood known as Ulpana made their way to their new homes down the hill here. The relocation was the most peaceful evacuation of a Jewish settlement from the occupied territories in memory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An architectural installation meant to clean the air to a degree equivalent to removing 260 cars from the road has been selected as the winning design in a competition to transform the courtyard of MoMA PS1 in Long Island City, Queens, this summer. The New York-based architecture and design firm behind the proposal, HWKN, won the 13th Young Architects Program, which is run jointly by MoMA PS 1 and its parent institution, the Museum of Modern Art. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

BEIJING -- Even in its prime, the house at 24 Beizongbu Hutong was no architectural jewel, just one of countless brick-and-timber courtyard homes that clogged the labyrinthine heart of this ancient imperial capital. But for seven years in the 1930s, it sheltered one of modern China's most fabled couples, Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin, Ivy League-educated architects who had returned home to champion the notion that a great nation should hold dear its historic patrimony. It was Mr. Liang, the debonair son from an illustrious family of intellectuals, who urged the victorious Communists to preserve Beijing's Yuan dynasty grid and its hulking city walls. Mao, the country's unsentimental leader, thought otherwise. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

RIDGEFIELD MICHELLE GENOVESI has fiddled with her fair share of home alarm systems in 25-plus years of showing houses. But within minutes of opening up the glass doors of her listing here on Ridgebury Road, two police cruisers pulled up in the cobblestone courtyard. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

During the first week of classes in September, the College of Staten Island was a locus of anticipation. Students were hustling through the courtyard, striking up new friendships and chatting nervously about the coming workload. Hermon Joseph sat in a shaded area near the library, soaking it all up with a wide grin. ''I'm meeting so many friends, I can't believe it,'' he said. ''I haven't had any down time.'' [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A FOUR-BEDROOM BEACHFRONT HOUSE WITH A COURTYARD ON PANAMA'S PACIFIC COAST $1.6 MILLION [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents information on how lawyer and music lover Sam Davol and his wife, Leslie, sold their loft in New York City, and bought two combined top-floor apartments in Boston, Massachusetts, which allowed natural lighting to light up the space. Their architects decided to take advantage of the top-floor location to get the maximum light from the sky. For this, they created a courtyard, open to all the interior elements, which was accessible from the kitchen's glass doors.

The article informs that the walls of the courtyard of the McKim, Mead & white building in Brooklyn, New York City have been decorated by artist Richard Haas. The building that was once the office of the New York Board of Education, has been converted into a 300-unit condominium by Two Trees Management Co. LLC. Haas is known for his mural painting.

The article offers information about the remodeling of the Museum of Chinese in the Americas in New York City by architect Maya Lin. Lin noticed that the building is formed from two separate structures, and is surrounded by a courtyard. Lin said the interior courtyard space would create a design similar to Chinese courtyard houses. Lin's design credits include the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C.

Features tourism in New Orleans, Louisiana. Music in the courtyard of the Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve; Landscape in the Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden; List of hotels.

Presents a correction to a picture with the continuation of the article, showing the interior courtyard of an apartment building in Netherlands.

Highlights the wine tasting gathering of French food and wine people in the courtyard of the Paris InterContinental Hotel in Paris, France on May 24, 1976.

Presents information on Amster Yard, a New York City, New York courtyard surrounded by several buildings, as reported on May 7, 1998. Sale price of Amster Yard; History of Amster Yard; Comments from Frederick W. Peters, president of Ashforth Warburg Associates.

States that the Vera List Courtyard, a minicampus at the New School for Social Research in Greenwich Village, New York, doubles as a community garden. The design from Martin Puryear, a sculptor and Michael Van Valkenburgh, a landscape architect from Cambridge, Massachusetts; The architect of record being Mitchell/Giurgola Architects; Description of the courtyard.