Tony Abbott and other Liberal conservatives still imagine they can build a winning constituency from the no side. Instead, he has wrapped the party in impossible tangles
John Nolan, former Deputy Postmaster General, weighs in on the state of the U.S. Postal Service and recent controversy involving collection boxes on...
Taiwanese lawmakers exchanged punches and threw water ahead of a crucial vote
Total Brexit incompetence on one side, troubling views on antisemitism on the other. What have we done to deserve this, asks Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
He's been on the International Space Station for more than five months
The National Research Council has confirmed that styrene is a potential carcinogen. What’s the reaction?
The Guggenheim show Mystical Symbolism reveals the curious world of French Symbolism that art critic Joséphin Péladan revealed in his salon exhibitions of the 1890s
Sue Emmett left the church because of the very values she says would make Romney a frightening president.
Virginia Dare, (born Aug. 18, 1587, Roanoke Island, Virginia colony. [now in North Carolina, U.S.]), the first English child born in the Americas. She was given the name Virginia because she was the first Christian born in Virginia. Her father was Ananias Dare. Her mother, Ellinor (Eleanor, or Elyonor) White Dare, was the daughter of the Roanoke colony governor, John White. The Dares were among the approximately 120 settlers who left England on May 8, 1587, on an expedition sponsored by Sir Walter Raleigh. Raleigh had intended that the settlement should be established in the Chesapeake Bay area, but the
In many places around the world, this is an unprecedented era of freedom and social acceptance for non-believers
Just a little reminder that tomorrow I'll announce the winner of the Custom Enamel House Number Sign. There's still time to enter ...
View the comic strip for Wrong Hands by cartoonist John Atkinson created August 30, 2016 available on GoComics.com
Don't let your biases hijack your brain.
View the comic strip for Moderately Confused by cartoonist Jeff Stahler created August 18, 2016 available on GoComics.com
Click here to view the original article that appeared on Drifter Planet It’s summer time soon! It’s that time of the year again when San and I
Mount Sakurajima erupts.
Eva Herzigova channeled Marilyn Monroe for this GQ Italy editorial shot by the superbly-talented photographer Vincent Peters. Most Vincent Peters photographs express a modern classicism, a softly-seductive, timeless womanliness. A beauty lost perhaps in our modern age? Not in Italy, wher
Todos conocemos la gesta de las Termópilas donde Leónidas y sus 300 espartanos –además de los 700 tespios y 400 tebanos olvidados– hicieron frente al ...
Wins are due to energy from the Black Lives Matter movement, failure of conventional policy and the solid infrastructure of progressive organization
Mark Cousins: Artistic institutions are too often forbidding when they should be seductive. It's time to warm things up a bit
Dancehalls, music venues and nightclubs are rich with personal and social history. Many have had an influence on music way beyond their four walls. But which have done it best?
Around 40% of women naturally have some sort of hair on their faces. Perhaps we should celebrate it instead of trying to get rid of it
This Bougatsa pastry is made of velvety custard cream tucked inside a very crispy filo and served with plenty of icing sugar and cinnamon on top!
architecturia: Oldest towns,Siberia lovely art
The continuing crisis in Gaza, the anniversary of the first world war, the ebola outbreak – the best photography in news, culture and sport from around the world this week
Le Pallais Bulles of Pierre Cardin was designed by Hungarian architect Antti Lovag inspired by the igloos he enjoyed building as child.
Tim Berners-Lee makes his little research project available to the world, and the nature of human communications begins a transformation unseen since the advent of the printing press. Or television, anyway.
For two years during the Second World War, the Secret Annex served as a hiding place for Anne Frank and the other people there. The Anne Frank House was established in 1957 and its main purpose was to preserve the hiding place. Read more about the history of the Anne Frank House.
I found it!! ….This is the inspiration shot that is helping me get my head around the upgrades we plan to make to our tree house this year. Until I saw this, I didn’t realize how much ‘foundation’ plantings could add to a tree house — a place with no true foundation. Also, in the […]
The geometric shapes that architecture provides are the perfect Instagram picture when they receive good layers of bold and contrasting colors. This historical,
