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Published on this date

In 2022

"As office-centric downtowns struggle, suburbs cater to the laptop crowd"

dek: "Developers are adding outdoor co-working space — bocce ball, anyone? — to attract remote workers to stores and restaurants"

WaPo / by Katherine Shaver

Commemorated on this date

On this date in 2023, the symbolic Cotton Tree in Freetown, Sierra Leone, was felled by a storm:

"Sierra Leone's iconic cotton tree felled by storm"

BBC / by Umaru Fofana in Freetown & Robert Greenall in London

date := 2023-05-25

"Sierra Leone’s symbolic Cotton Tree falls during storm in Freetown"

dek: "Centuries-old Ceiba pentandra marked where formerly enslaved people had prayed upon arrival in west Africa"

The Guardian / by Agence France-Presse in Freetown

date := 2023-05-25

Coverage in Wikipedia

WP / Cotton Tree (Sierra Leone)

"On 24 May 2023, a heavy rain storm felled the cotton tree with only the lower part of its enormous trunk still standing."