Sri Lanka’s main elephant orphanage marked its 50th anniversary on Sunday with a fruit feast for the 68 jumbos at the showpiece centre, reputedly the world’s first care home for destitute ...

Located about 90 km from Colombo in the southwestern region of Rambukkana, the orphanage was inaugurated in 1975. “This was started in 1975 with five baby elephants. Today it provides refuge for ...

The Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage lavished pineapples, bananas, melons and cucumbers on its residents to celebrate the anniversary of their home, which is a major tourist attraction. A few ...

13. The First Baptist Church was built in the 1890s. In October 2010, church trustees sold the property to Marian Laurentiu of Tannery Creek Road in Corning for $82,750, according to Chemung ...

Nestled just 30 miles north of Oklahoma City, Guthrie is a hidden gem that’s been polishing its Victorian charm for over a ...

Light Up Lagos, a New Year’s Eve celebration platform, has donated 10 percent of its Detty December proceeds to orphanages and vulnerable children. Organisations like Little Saints Orphanage and ...

The film focuses on a series of hunger strikes organized by those incarcerated at California’s Pelican Bay State Prison, in protest of conditions in highest-security prisons. By Alissa Wilkinson ...

Willett Hancock, curator of exhibitions at the Matheson History Museum, whose senior capstone at UF focused on Union Academy, said the school’s success after the Freedmen’s Bureau left, was a sign of ...

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