Tomaz Humar obituary | Slovenia
Posted on May 19, 2024
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| Delta Gatti
SloveniaObituaryTomaz Humar obituaryCharismatic Slovenian climber who became one of the world's leading mountaineersIn the summer of 1988, the Slovenian mountaineer Tomaž Humar, who has died in a climbing accident in Nepal aged 40, was a Yugoslavian soldier stationed in the Kosovo town of Podujevo. Humar loathed Slobodan Miloševic´'s plans for ethnic Albanians and, when his conscription ended, told his commanding officer that he wanted to go home. Instead, he was detained and maltreated before being abandoned with an unloaded rifle among a community hostile to Yugoslavian soldiers.
[Read More]Why did I feel rusty? White supremacy: Kelela on writers block, outsiderdom and her long-aw
Posted on May 19, 2024
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| Barrett Giampaolo
KelelaInterview‘Why did I feel rusty? White supremacy’: Kelela on writer’s block, outsiderdom and her long-awaited second albumTshepo MokoenaThe US singer and producer received mass acclaim for her debut album in 2017, then vanished. After a battle with perfectionism, she’s back with renewed self-assurance and one eye fixed firmly on the dancefloor
Kelela thought she had lost her touch. In January 2020, the US singer and producer had flown to Berlin to sketch out the outline of an album to follow her much-anticipated 2017 debut, Take Me Apart.
[Read More]European football: Dovbyk leads Girona rout of Sevilla, Werder stun Bayern | European club football
Posted on May 18, 2024
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| Christie Applegate
European club footballEuropean football: Dovbyk leads Girona rout of Sevilla, Werder stun BayernBayern seven points behind Leverkusen after 1-0 home lossDovbyk hits six-minute hat-trick, Real Madrid grab late winThe Girona striker Artem Dovbyk scored a six-minute hat-trick to help them to a 5-1 home win over Sevilla as the hosts quickly reclaimed top spot from Real Madrid in La Liga.
The visitors took an early lead through Isaac Romero’s goal after 10 minutes, but it was short-lived as Dovbyk’s towering header from Sávio’s cross made it 1-1 in the 13th minute.
[Read More]My eyes were full of tears: shooting the defining image of the Turkey earthquake
Posted on May 18, 2024
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Turkey-Syria earthquake 2023Adem Altan came across a father holding his dead daughter’s hand – who asked him to take her photo
Turkey and Syria earthquake – latest news updates Adem Altan can’t compare the picture he took on a cold morning this week with any of the tens of thousands he has shot in his 41 years as a photojournalist.
Shortly after driving from Ankara to the southern Turkish town of Kahramanmaraş on Tuesday, and picking his way through the aftermath of the 7.
[Read More]Paper Towns by John Green - review | Children's books
Posted on May 18, 2024
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| Merlyn Hunt
Children's booksChildren's booksPaper Towns by John Green - review'One of the funniest books I have come across in ages'John Green, Paper TownsPaper Towns is a fantastic, interesting and unique novel that I thoroughly enjoyed.
I was very eager to read this following how much I loved An Abundance of Katherines, and I decided that I had to read it before I saw the film due to my golden rule: read the book before you watch the film.
[Read More]Renaldo 'Obie' Benson | | The Guardian
Posted on May 18, 2024
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| Merlyn Hunt
ObituaryRenaldo 'Obie' BensonFour Tops singer who wrote a classic soul protest anthemOne day in the early 1970s, Renaldo "Obie" Benson, who has died of lung cancer aged 68, saw the San Francisco police attacking a crowd of hippies. A founder member of the seminal Tamla Motown group, the Four Tops, Benson had already been thinking a lot about the social and political unrest in black America. He was also, at the time, branching out as a songwriter.
[Read More]Roma run out of patience after riding the Jos Mourinho hurricane | Roma
Posted on May 18, 2024
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RomaAnalysisRoma run out of patience after riding the José Mourinho hurricaneNicky BandiniSerie A club have turned to a beloved figure in Daniele De Rossi to pick up the pieces left by the Special One’s era of wild highs and lows
Perhaps the story should have ended in Budapest. There had been speculation leading up to the Europa League final last May that it could be José Mourinho’s final week in charge of Roma.
[Read More]The big picture: Halloween on the subway
Posted on May 18, 2024
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| Merlyn Hunt
Subway Hare, 2022 by Seymour Licht.Subway Hare, 2022 by Seymour Licht.The big picturePhotographyEvery Halloween for 20 years, Seymour Licht went underground to photograph New York’s ghouls and monsters, on their way to and from parties
More than 20 years ago the photographer Seymour Licht was on an assignment to capture images of the annual Halloween pageant in Greenwich Village. The floats and crowds at the carnival were hard to make sense of visually, and Licht’s eye was instead drawn to the individual ghouls and goblins he had seen on the subway getting there.
[Read More]Fish porn | Pornography | The Guardian
Posted on May 17, 2024
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| Brenda Moya
Net notesPornographyFish pornAs Swiss scientists reveal sticklebacks ejaculate more sperm after seeing images of flirting fish, read our web guide to piscine prurience1. Today's subject concerns fish spawn, sorry, porn. Though the two matters are connected.
2. Scientists at Fribourg university in Switzerland have discovered that sticklebacks ejaculate more sperm if first stimulated by a "soft porn" film showing flirting fish.
3. It is thought that the images simulate conditions in the wild where the males rev up their performances if they feel threatened by competitors.
[Read More]How Goya's Duke of Wellington was stolen
Posted on May 17, 2024
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| Brenda Moya
Art theftFrom the National Gallery to Dr No's lairThe 21st of August is the anniversary of two shocking art thefts: Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa stolen from the Louvre 100 years ago, and Francisco de Goya's The Duke of Wellington taken from the National Gallery, London, exactly 50 years later. The two thefts share more than the same date. Both thieves concealed the famous paintings for several years without being caught and both decided to return them: the Duke was deposited in the left-luggage office of New Street station in Birmingham.
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