The IJ is reprinting some of the late Beth Ashley’s columns. This is from 2007. When the voting got underway, I was in Africa ...

The ancient Greeks and Romans built astonishing monuments like the Lighthouse of Alexandria and the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, and while only the Great Pyramid of Giza remains intact, we’ve ...

The Colossus of Rhodes ... After learning about Rhodes on foot for the first few days, I rented a car with a few women from my suite at Stay Rhodes HoStel. We drove about 30 miles south on ...

Even the ancient 111-foot-high Colossus of Rhodes was built using repurposed bronze. When the statue, built in about 280 BCE, fell during an earthquake, the metal was simply melted down and reused.

The U.S. mined about 1.1 million tons of copper in 2024, which is less than the demand in a year. Some of that copper is refined overseas.