SC Heritage Act lawsuit protecting Confederate monuments sparks top Republican fight John Monk, The State (Columbia, S.C.)
Dec. 30 COLUMBIA, S.C. A key part of the 20-year-old South Carolina law that makes it near impossible to take down Confederate and segregation-era monuments is the requirement that it would take a two-thirds vote a supermajority by each chamber in the General Assembly to make any changes.
But in the latest filing before the state Supreme Court in a lawsuit that challenges the state s Heritage Act, South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson says the act s provision that requires a supermajority in the 124-member House and in the 46-member Senate is unconstitutional.
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Historical Shahi Bagh undergoing massive facelift
Peshawar
December 28, 2020
PESHAWAR: An unprecedented repair and restoration work is in full swing to revive the glory of Mughal-era Shahi Bagh - one of the oldest and largest gardens in the provincial metropolis.
Located in Faqirabad and developed by first Mughal and later Durrani rulers, this majestic park originally spread over 800 kanal of land and has a significant recreational as well as historical value for the city and its inhabitants. Mountstuart Elphinstone, the first British envoy to arrive in Peshawar in his 1809 detailed memoir ‘Kingdom of Caubul’ gushed over the garden with praise.
The encroachments made with time after the Independence in the form of unplanned concrete buildings greatly reduced the area of this recreational green space.
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The Western Australian government has purchased the historic family home of Australia s longest-serving Labor Prime Minister for $1.45 million. Bob Hawke s West Leederville house has had just one owner since his parents sold it in 1981, before the WA government officially declared it had bought it and would maintain the home as a state asset. The brick and tile, inter-war suburban cottage was home to Bob Hawke for much of his childhood years. The brick and tile, inter-war suburban cottage was home to Bob Hawke for much of his childhood years. He first moved to the Tate Street address at the age of nine, and lived there with his family while attending Perth Modern School.