1. Britain came out of its long winter lockdown on April 12th and, with the rapid progress of its vaccination ...
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1. Long before his extravagantly bearded profile appeared on postage stamps and commemorative coins, John Muir was a struggling travel ...
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1. The sun is shining on the rear deck of Adam Weymouth’s barge, and the hawthorn along the banks of the ...
1. Research by Policy Institute at King’s College London and Ipsos Mori revealed that around 54 per cent of British ...
1.~“Kill The Bill” Demonstrations have taken place throughout the UK in the past few weeks to protest against the Police, ...
1. Ford Prefect, an alien in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, wonders about earthlings’ peculiar “habit of continually stating ...
1.~BELGIUM Insect camp This futuristic structure is for an “insect refugee camp,” designed by Vincent Callebaut, an award-winning Belgian architect. ...
1. Hundreds of miles apart but at exactly the same time on Monday afternoon, a gunman opened fire in a ...
1. Since becoming prime minister in July 2019, Boris Johnson has often referred to EU countries as “our friends and partners”. Many of ...
1.~Early life Eleonora Fagan, also known as “Lady Day” and finally, as her stage name, Billie Holiday, was born in ...
1. The only march you’re likely to see on Broadway this year is the kind with trombones in The Music ...
1. The Earth’s average temperature unexpectedly leapt 0.4 degrees Celsius on Saturday afternoon, putting the planet on the brink of ...
1.~Inside a Van Gogh painting Have you ever wondered what would be like to walk inside of Van Gogh's famous ...
1. A study has revealed how humans’ brains have been able to develop to be larger than those of other apes. Researchers ...
1. Laurent Frat is standing on top of a ridge line in the French alps, preparing to leap down to the ...
1.~Meat controversy American meatpacking plants have suffered from an increasing controversy over the past year. The harsh working conditions ...