Rowan Lascelles, if appearances and lineage were the only measure of a man, looked to have it all. A distant cousin of the King, he has a distinguished aristocratic name and an ancestral home that is one of the architectural treasures of Britain, with a world-class collection of artworks.
Almost exactly 23 years ago, Lascelles was one of 25 figures assembled in a unique photo montage created by the magazine Country Life to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Queen Victoria’s
It looked for a while that the game between the Philadelphia Flyers and Ottawa Senators on March 5, 2004, might come and go without incident.
That was a bit surprising because eight days earlier, Ottawa’s Martin Havlat whacked the Flyers’ Mark Recchi in the face with his stick and afterward, heated words and insinuations flew. The Flyers were irate about the play and Havlat was suspended two games.
“Someday someone’s going to make (Havlat) eat his lunch,” Flyers coach Ken
A mysterious, new fetal mummy has surfaced — and one veteran public radio reporter suspects it could be ‘alien’ or a ‘tiny humanoid’ from an ancient species.
The alleged extraterrestrial has an elongated skull, slanted eyes, and an unusual number of ribs, at least according to the reporter, who stated that the body seemed to have 10 ribs on each side of the body compared to a human’s typical 12.
Images of the deceased being were delivered by an anonymous
From picnics by the river with her four siblings to a doting father who was ‘the nicest man in the world’, Brigitte Hoss had an idyllic childhood by any standards.
Her mother described their home in Poland as a ‘paradise’ with cooks, nannies and cleaners to tend to the family’s every need.
But some of these domestic staff were prisoners from the Auschwitz concentration camp just across the road from the family home, with the prisoner blocks and old crematorium
Even now, I can still hear his finger tap-tap-tapping firmly into the table and feel the intensity that was radiating from him.
The date — Friday, October 9, 2015 — and time — 1.45pm — is unforgotten. Jurgen Klopp had walked into a lounge of Liverpool’s Centenary Stand and immediately you knew things had changed.
Dressed in a black blazer, black shirt, dark denim jeans, sartorially he had the laidback chic of a Californian tech boss and he was blazing
They say fairytales are make-believe.
Grade I-listed Askham Hall hotel in the Lake District will leave you doubting this – it’s like a fantasy-fable house made real, with grand yet homely interiors, a kitchen garden straight from Middle-earth’s Shire and staff with welcomes warm enough for any Disney prince or princess.
I was there with my partner and young daughter following the hotel’s crowning as VisitEngland Small Hotel of the Year 2023.
Did it live up to the hype?
We
Pots with fancifully molded eyes, noses and mouths were one of the tip-offs.
Adrian Chase already had a growing sense that Maya society wasn’t quite what it’s been traditionally portrayed as: powerful rulers reigning while powerless commoners obeyed — or perhaps lived far enough from seats of power to operate largely on their own. Work by Chase and others had started to create a picture of a more politically complex society.
An archaeologist at the University of Chicago, Chase leads
When Peet Montzingo, 33, moved into his new downtown LA apartment, he had no idea one of the world’s most haunted places would be looming over him and his neighbours could be ghosts.
Hotel Cecil, often called ‘Hotel Death,’ is notorious for it’s dark history of murders, serial killers and unexplained deaths – the most talked about being the disappearance of Elisa Lam, who’s naked dead body was later found in the hotel’s water tank in 2013.
There have been
Eat well, exercise daily, and mix with positive people. That’s the standard advice for those who want to live longer, and if you add some banned-in-the-EU pecorino cheese, it’s also the recipe for the Chef’s cycling tour, a one-week cycling and feasting trip into Sardinia’s ‘Blue Zone’ by Italian travel firm Tourissimo.
More about that dangerous cheese shortly, but first, about that Blue Zone. This is a mountainous region with a very high concentration of centenarians, those folks living to
If the most dangerous invention to emerge from World War II was the atomic bomb, the computer now seems to be running a close second, thanks to recent developments in artificial intelligence. Neither the bomb nor the computer can be credited to, or blamed on, any single scientist. But if you trace the stories of these two inventions back far enough, they turn out to intersect in the figure of John von Neumann, the Hungarian-born polymath sometimes described as the
