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In August my wife and I were married for 27 years and my brother-in-law Richard has worked for his company for 27 years. Richard is also blessed with a good marriage. Looking at these two milestones, there are many similarities between a long marriage and a long career. Unfortunately, neither is more standard. Both require loyalty. Both require trust. Both ...

Visitors to the English city of Bath may be familiar with the long history of Sydney Gardens, a lush space that has long been Jane Austen’s favorite destination. In 2019, a plan to renovate the gardens was announced. While these renovations were underway, a group of archaeologists discovered something unexpected on the ground – something reminiscent of a much older ...

The current heat wave in western Canada and the US Pacific Northwest has been described as a “one-time-in-a-millennium” event, with temperatures in Portland, Oregon hitting 116 degrees Fahrenheit on Monday, Seattle, Washington reaching 108 degrees over the weekend, and 116 degrees in Vancouver, BC. A farm worker wipes sweat from his neck as he works Thursday, July 1, 2021, in ...

Primal Scream frontman Bobby Gillespie and Jehnny Beth make an odd couple – he’s prone to cowardly, decadent, drugged overtures as she screams in a primal way – and their differences become even more apparent on Utopian ashes, a kind of concept album they produced together on the preamble of a divorce between two lovers. And like any couple in ...

At the start of the pandemic, as researchers and health professionals scrambled to learn more about the new virus, non-scientists struggled to find clear and concise information. For many seniors in Boston’s Chinatown community, this difficulty was compounded by the language barrier. But the student volunteers in the Tufts Chinatown Wellness Initiative (TCWI) were ready to lend a hand. Already ...

It is not “only” a thousand-year-old road created under the Roman Empire. The Via Emilia is much more. It is the homeland of Italian supercars, the speed capital of the world. This is where the Motor Valley is located, an area that is home to automotive royalty such as Ferrari, Lamborghini, Maserati, Dallara, Ducati and Pagani. The history of the ...

Voters in Bellamy’s day were arguing over where and when to go to war. Now it’s handled by the experts; when four American soldiers were killed in Niger in 2017, it emerged that key senators were not even aware that troops were stationed there. Likewise, Bellamy experienced elections in which farmers fiercely debated monetary policy with bankers. Yet today the ...

CHICAGO–(COMMERCIAL THREAD) –Let’s talk about Womxn Chicago present the closing celebration of the Taste of Chicago on-the-go weekend with “Let’s talk about picnic women in white” at Millennium Park on July 11, 2021, from 12 p.m. to 3 p.m. This collaboration of forty-strong women entrepreneurs in Chicago exemplifies the spirit of resilience and empowerment of women while celebrating Chicago’s diverse ...

Published on: 07/02/2021 – 03:48Amended: 07/02/2021 – 03:47 Cannes (France) (AFP) The battle for after party invitations has always been fierce at the world’s most glamorous festival, but thanks to social distancing rules, it will be even harder than usual to overtake the doorman at Cannes this year. “We will not be able to do everything we want,” warned Pierre ...

In the year 1054, there was an explosion in the sky so bright that it was visible for almost two weeks in broad daylight and two years after dark. So what caused this sudden phenomenon? It was probably a rare type of supernova known as an electron capture supernova. These supernovas, thought to be almost nonexistent, lie just between the ...