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The legend of the lost ship of the desert
The Desert Sun via Yahoo News· 6 hours agoIn 1870, Philadelphia’s Evening Telegraph called it “a marvellous story” about “a ship high and dry on a Colorado Desert – billows of sand beating about...
British tourists warned as heatwave in beautiful European country hits 44C
Daily Express· 4 days agoAuthorities continue to search for Albert Calibet, a retired Los Angeles County Deputy Sheriff, who...
UK’s Nigel Farage sparks outrage from opponents after saying West ‘provoked’ Ukraine war
WKBT La Crosse· 8 hours agoFarage – who heads the fast-growing Reform UK political party and was a pivotal figure in in Brexit...
The Best Audiobooks for Roadtrips of Any Length
Time via AOL· 1 day agoSeriously, give her all the awards for this. Length: 5 hours, 31 minutes The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams British comedian Stephen Fry...
Archaeologists find 18th-century ring at historic Michigan fort
CBS News· 2 days agoArchaeologists at Colonial Michilimackinac found a brass trade ring. These rings are commonly known...
The History Behind Pic Allegedly Showing a Palestinian Beach Before Israel Was Founded
Snopes via Yahoo News· 1 day agoIn sum, the photograph is a snapshot of the early days of Tel Aviv. Though founded under Ottoman...
A Long Exposure | Martin Filler
New York Review of Books· 9 hours agoIt’s called multiple discovery—also known as simultaneous invention—and supports the hypothesis that new concepts can arise concurrently among independent researchers. Famous instances of this ...
Nigel Farage is a ‘pub bore’ with simplistic answers, says Ben Wallace
Daily Telegraph· 9 hours agoA man who, remember, was involved in the murder of a British citizen, Dawn Sturgess with the...
The best supermarket own-label wines for summer
Daily Telegraph· 1 day agoSupermarket own-label wines have been around for more than half a century. Sainsbury’s is thought to be the British pioneer, launching a range in the 1960s ...
How women runners debunked myths about the sport and made running their own
NPR· 9 hours agoSo when British runner Diane Leather broke the five-minute mile in 1954, she didn’t bag the official world record because it wasn...Gibb’s rejected application. “To me, that ...