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Who Is in the Order of the Garter?
Town & Country via Yahoo News· 2 hours agoWho Is in the Order of the Garter?Pool - Getty Images In 1348, King Edward III, inspired by the tales of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table,...
Inside Fire Island's Complicated Past, Present, and Future
Esquire via Yahoo News· 2 years agoJourney four miles into the Atlantic off the coast of New York and you’ll find a sandspit, only half...
Voices: We prosecute racists and sexists. So what about ‘classists’?
The Independent via Yahoo News· 1 year agoClassism is legal in the United Kingdom. By that, I mean that the law does not make discrimination...
Stephen Hawking: how the ‘flawed genius’ wound up in the Epstein scandal
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 5 months agoStephen Hawking became a national treasure - GETTY IMAGES As a national treasure, Professor Stephen...
Sacred Mysteries: The connection between E Nesbit and St Sebastian
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 5 months agoThe author of The Phoenix and the Carpet and The Railway Children, E Nesbit, married an impossible...
Patrick Hanks, lexicographer who illuminated the history of rude words and surnames – obituary
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 4 months agoPatrick Hanks, who has died aged 83, was a lexicographer, corpus linguist and onomastician, one who...
General Sir Frank Kitson, double winner of the Military Cross lauded for his counter-insurgency...
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 5 months agoGeneral Sir Frank Kitson, who has died aged 97, won two Military Crosses during his service in Kenya...