The Collector: John Simanton’s ship model started when he was a teen and helped during his Navy career
John Simanton’s collection reflects a time when world wars were fought at sea – when mighty ships battled each other across ...
The Spectator Australia5d
The importance of honouring the enemy war dead
There are several dozen graves from the second world war (and some from the first) in churchyards near my village on ...
Condé Nast Traveler on MSN1d
Finding “Peace, If Not Paradise” Along the Silk Road, Aboard the Golden Eagle
On the 'Golden Eagle' train in Central Asia, writer Maggie Shipstead follows the historic Silk Road and witnesses, in some ...
MercoPress4d
Battleship Graf Spee Nazi eagle must be sold, orders Uruguayan court
He shot himself days later in a Buenos Aires hotel, wrapped in an Imperial German flag. The wreck was purchased in 1940 from the German government by British spies using a Uruguay front company in ...
Heathrow resumes some flights after fire and power outage shut down London airport
Heathrow Airport said it expected “significant disruption" over the coming days due to the power outage caused by the fire at ...
The New Yorker1d
Dirty Projectors Creates a Symphony for a Burning World
Between brutal fire seasons in Los Angeles, David Longstreth wrote “Song of the Earth,” an album that captures the beauty, ...
IFA Magazine6d
AJ Bell’s Dan Coatsworth highlights five flavours of income for ISA investors
As we hit peak ISA season, AJ Bell looks at five different flavours of income for ISA investors, including some specific ...
The Forward on MSN1d
100 years after its founding, can a Yiddish institute serve a people who don’t speak the language?
YIVO will mark its 100th anniversary on March 24, approaching the digital age invigorated and ready to reach more Jews.
An artist traces her choices under Putin’s Russia – from resistance to retreat to exile – one mural at a time
(THE CONVERSATION) Victoria Lomasko, a graphic artist and muralist, has spent her career documenting how authoritarianism took hold in Vladimir Putin’s Russia. What she has illustrated – as well as ...
When the KKK Came to D.C.
A century ago, in 1925, the Ku Klux Klan came to Washington, D.C. The Klansmen had arrived in early August: the Kleagles and ...
For Europe
On Donald Trump, the geopolitical upheaval and the duping of our continent. Likewise, a warning against the rhetoric of ...
Opinion
Radio Canada International4dOpinion
Blog: First UN World Day for Glaciers – A call to climate action in desperate times
Accelerating ice melt from glaciers worldwide means an increased loss of freshwater resources, ever-faster sea level rise and life-threatening floods and landslides. In some regions, ice loss is ...