ruins

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Ruins of the childhood home of England's Nine Days' Queen, Lady Jane Grey, are to reopen to the public as a major conservation project continues.

From BBC • Mar. 24, 2026

Ms. Brothers is a professor of art and architecture at Northeastern University and the author of “Giuliano da Sangallo and the Ruins of Rome.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

Several hundred meters away, visitors were enjoying an unusual degree of tranquility at the Ruins of St. Paul’s, originally the 17th century Church of Mater Dei.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 1, 2023

Now the investigative comedian and host of “Adam Ruins Everything” is out to ruin another thing: the assumption that you need a car to live a fulfilled life in Los Angeles.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2022

We ended up putting our blanket down by the Ruins, this weird rectangle of Roman ruins plopped down in the middle of a field in Indianapolis.

From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green