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‘That hit the spot’: King and Queen enjoy vintage whisky at Edinburgh event
PA Media: UK News via Yahoo News UK· 2 days agoSmith, creator of The No 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series, who was knighted by Charles on Tuesday...
The nightingale is nature's sovereign of song
Eastern Daily Press via Yahoo News UK· 3 days agoUnfortunately, humans being humans, it is not enough to delight at nature, we must own it, both metaphorically and literally. In 1819 when John Keats’s ...
St Swithin’s Day 2024: Who was the saint, why is the day celebrated, and what is the famous rhyme?
Evening Standard via Yahoo News UK· 2 days agoWhat is the famous St Swithin’s Day rhyme? The old poem goes like this... “St Swithin’s Day, if it...
Soldier brothers killed on the same day in Normandy remembered - 80 years on
Manchester Evening News via Yahoo News UK· 5 days agos father, Abraham. "Harold was called up at the start of the war and Hammond volunteered in...
6 Paperbacks to Read This Week
New York Times· 6 days agoAt age 6, Bell’s mother bought him a green water gun instead of a realistic one, explaining that she feared for his safety as a Black child in Los...
Why We Still Want to Hear the ‘Ode to Joy,’ 200 Years Later
New York Times· 3 days agoBeethoven’s aspirational vision of unity and peace can be applied to virtually any situation or...
Phylicia Rashad and Debbie Allen: All About the Actress Sisters
People via Yahoo News UK· 6 days agoDebbie established The Dr. Andrew Arthur Allen, Sr. Memorial Scholarship at Howard University in...
A lesson in joy and beauty from Marc Jacobs
Harper’s Bazaar via Yahoo News· 2 days agoJacobs-ologists will also find through lines between this show and his spring/summer 2012 collection for Louis Vuitton, where eyelet and laser-cut floral...
Albanians gather for funeral of writer Ismail Kadare
Reuters via Yahoo News UK· 2 days agoThousands of Albanians gathered in Tirana on Wednesday to pay tribute to their country's best-known novelist Ismail Kadare, who died on Monday after a...
I stayed in 'the strangest town in Wales' and completely fell in love
Wales Online via Yahoo News UK· 7 days agoIt was a trip to remember to a town that's not a town on the verge of making a comeback. Laugharne...