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Takeaways from the 2024 World’s 50 Best Restaurants List
Bon Appetit via Yahoo News· 20 hours agoTable by Bruno Verjus in Paris was number three. Five of the top 10 were from Europe which, along...
Massive 2Africa subsea cable lands in the UK improving connectivity
Neowin· 8 hours agoVodafone has announced that the 2Africa subsea cable is now connected at Bude, Cornwall in the UK....
How a World War II Escape Map Found a Second Use as a Ladies Garment
Smithsonian Magazine· 2 days agoWhen Ted Maxwell was a young boy in the 1950s, he remembers his mother, Bernice Allen Maxwell, wearing a distinctive blouse. Made from richly printed silk, the blouse resembled a map ...
Christian Lamb made maps to guide the crews landing crafts at Normandy on D-Day | Texarkana Gazette
Texarkana Gazette· 6 days agoThe maps "showed railways, roads, churches, castles, every possible feature that could be visible to...
Biden’s D-Day visit may mark the end of an American era | CNN Politics
CNN.com· 1 day agoThis year’s memorial ceremony represents far more than a poignant farewell to surviving comrades of...
Anniversary haunted by dwindling number of veterans, shadowed by Europe’s new war
Marshall Independent· 13 hours agoThe war in Ukraine shadowed the ceremonies in Normandy, a grim modern-day example of lives and cities that are again suffering through war in Europe. Russia, a crucial World ...
What did the papers say about D-Day?
BBC via Yahoo News· 2 days agoCommunique No. 1 set the world agog. On 6 June 1944, hours after the Normandy landings had begun, a late edition of the Belfast Telegraph declared it was...
Google Gemini app for Android comes to UK and Europe
Neowin· 2 days agoGoogle's Gemini app for Android is now rolling out across the UK and Europe. The generative AI chatbot will be available to iOS users as well in the...
In the Coast Guard's wargames, climate change is now a key adversary
NPR· 2 days agoIt won the war in Ukraine and is still at odds with the West. And so much polar ice has melted that the Arctic is open. Ziegler says that means a new shipping route from China to Europe ...
D-Day anniversary haunted by dwindling number of veterans and shadowed by Europe's new war
San Mateo Daily Journal· 22 hours agoThe war in Ukraine shadowed the ceremonies in Normandy, a grim modern-day example of lives and...