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Travelling as a pilgrim is a powerful way to experience your trip with a strong sense of purpose — to go beyond tourism and connect more deeply with a place, a culture or a faith. Travellers considering pilgrimages in Europe have the opportunity to follow centuries-old routes or trace new paths in a.... |
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In 1987, the feminist publishing house Virago published a collection of stories featuring British Asian girls caught in the conflicting demands of home and school. The author of Down the Road, Worlds Away was a 38-year-old mother of two called Rahila Khan, whose fiction had already been aired on Radio 4. |
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Mike Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York City, is staring down a boom-or-bust vote on Super Tuesday in his bid to be the Democratic nominee for U.S. president. And in doing that, he’s trying to convince voters that in a battle between two New York billionaires, he could take down the current resident of the White House. |
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Today's Highlight in History: On March 2, 1962, Wilt Chamberlain scored 100 points for the Philadelphia Warriors in a game against the New York Knicks, an NBA record that still stands. (Philadelphia won, 169-147.) On this date: In 1877, Republican Rutherford B. Hayes was declared the winner of the 1876 presidential election over Democrat Samuel J. |
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On Saturday, Feb. 29, more than 100 family and friends turned out for the unveiling of a new headstone for rapper, singer, songwriter and actor Nate Dogg at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Long Beach. The Long Beach native’s family got the first glimpse of the headstone on Friday and thought it was beautiful. |
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Hungarian state media bosses banned coverage of leading human rights organizations and told staff they need special permission to report on a variety of politically sensitive topics such as EU politics and Greta Thunberg, according to a report by politico.eu.
Greta Thunberg (Image by lev radin/Shutterstock. |
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With two deaths confirmed in the U.S. and scientists warning the new coronavirus could already have spread much more widely than believed in one state, the disease that emerged in central China was taking a mounting toll on American nerves by Monday morning. |
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The issues the newly opened archives will shed light on are not only of historical interest. The traumas of the Second World War and of the Holocaust remain very much alive. Holocaust denial might be dismissed as the delirium of a crackpot fringe, but denial of responsibility for the war and for the.... |
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Vatican City (AsiaNews) - From today the Vatican Apostolic Archive and other archives of the Holy See are open for consultation of the documents of the pontificate of Pius XII (1939-1958). It is a world-wide event for scholars in general and for historians in particular, since the pontificate of.... |
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But, as the guests surveyed the crowd, looking for familiar faces, there was one glaring absence: John Battle, one of Brunson’s closest buddies and a star of that team. This celebration and reunion would continue long into the night, and it was a shame Battle would miss it. |
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DIRECTOR of the National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Doreen Sibanda has retired from the institution after serving in that capacity for the past 16 years.
RAUNCHY dancer Beverly “Bev” Sibanda will this weekend invade the City of Kings and Queens where she will showcase her dancing skills at Zansibar and Mqombothi. |
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