You know sometimes you learn some ancient lore and suddenly some contemporary pop culture thing snaps into place? Anyway, I found out how Isadora Duncan died and now I better understand the “no capes” thing in The Incredibles.
Chief scientist says dangerous heatwaves, which are getting more likely, ‘bring home the implications of climate change’
The month of June was the warmest in England on record, driven by a searing heatwave in the final days of the month, which for the first time had red heat alerts for three days, according to Met Office data.
The Met Office said provisional statistics showed Wales and the UK as a whole had recorded their second-warmest June since 1884.
Continue reading...Reports say up to 80,000 people waiting by mid-afternoon for chance to see historic artwork at British Museum
People keen to see the Bayeux tapestry faced online queues of up to nine hours when tickets went on sale for the first time on Wednesday morning.
The British Museum, which is hosting the wool-on-linen artwork from September, saw huge traffic to its ticketing website as a scramble for access began.
Continue reading...Figure is more than five times the widely used 600,000 figure widely cited in apologies by king and politicians
At least 3.3 million people were enslaved in the Netherlands during the transatlantic slave trade, research claims – more than five times the 600,000 figure widely used in history books and cited in apologies by the king and politicians.
King Willem-Alexander referred to the more than 600,000 people who were brought from Africa on Dutch ships to be sold as enslaved people when he apologised three years ago for the role of the Netherlands in the transatlantic slave trade.
Continue reading...LONDEN (ANP) - Tennisser Jannik Sinner heeft zijn jacht op titelprolongatie vervolgd met een zege op de Portugees Nuno Borges in de tweede ronde op Wimbledon. De Italiaanse nummer 1 van de wereld had het niet gemakkelijk, maar won uiteindelijk met 7-6 (4) 7-6 (2) 6-4.
Sinner speelt in de derde ronde tegen de Amerikaan Jenson Brooksby, de mondiale nummer 81. De Italiaan veroverde vorig jaar voor het eerst de titel op Wimbledon. Daarnaast won hij de Australian Open twee keer (2024, 2025) en de US Open een keer (2024).
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