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Historic writer's desk could be 'knackered' old fake
BBC via Yahoo Canada News· 3 weeks agoMuseum visitors will be asked whether they believe the piece of furniture really was Dr Johnson's desk [Getty Images] The desk of the writer Dr Samuel...
The pomp, the Pimm’s, the royals — why Ascot is so much more than a horse race
Evening Standard via Yahoo Canada News· 1 year agoAs famous for its drunkenness as its races, the royal event is a great occasion for people from all...
Bombings hit event for Iran's Gen. Qassem Soleimani, a shadowy figure slain in 2020 US drone strike
Associated Press via Yahoo Canada News· 6 months agoFor Iranians backing the country's theocracy, whose icons since the Islamic Revolution have been...
Julia by Sandra Newman: a vibrant retelling of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four
The Conversation via Yahoo Canada News· 9 months agoGeorge Orwell apologised to his close friends the writers Anthony Powell and Julian Symons for his...
Director David Gordon Green brings his inner 11-year-old to his 'Exorcist' reboot
LA Times via Yahoo Canada News· 9 months agoTo make "The Exorcist: Believer," filmmaker David Gordon Green, recently of three "Halloween"...
The seven best books of 2023 reviewed by our experts
The Conversation via Yahoo Canada News· 7 months agoWe have covered a lot of new releases this year but these seven really impressed our experts. There’s a feminist retelling of a classic, a twist on the...
The last voyage of Grand Bank's Administratrix, cut in half by a Norwegian steamer
CBC via Yahoo Canada News· 1 year agoIt was 75 years ago — in April 1948 — the freight-carrying vessel Administratrix was cut down off...
Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë and the truth about the 'real-life Heathcliff'
The Conversation via Yahoo Canada News· 2 years agoWarner Bros. When Emily Brontë published Wuthering Heights in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell,...
OPINION - Books of the year: The Evening Standard team choose their favourites
Evening Standard via Yahoo Canada News· 7 months agoThe Evening Standard columnist has infantilised Rupert Murdoch once before, in 2008’s The Man Who...
Lutheran Pastor’s Leaked Confessional Touches Off Unholy Legal War
The Daily Beast via Yahoo Canada News· 10 months agoIllustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily BeastWhen a married pastor going through a period of...