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The End of Everything is a bonkers Booker winner bit.ly/4zaGsMQ
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AUKUS is beginning to make waves on Australia’s west coast economist.com/asia/2026/11/1…
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Rayners Lane's modernist station:
Rayners Lane tube station was rebuilt in 1938 to serve the speculative Harrow Garden Village development. Designed in a “Sudbury Box” style by Charles Holden and R.H. Uren, this station is a true piece of Modernism in Metro-Land. Read more about it here buff.ly/IOhaVTq
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Since a 2011 earthquake, stone masons have been working to repair cracked parts of Washington National Cathedral. Now they're at the final, wooziest part: Fixing the Gloria in Excelsis Deo tower, the highest point in the city. @jas__golden was up there
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“If they had allowed a Hohenzollern, a Wittelsbach, and a Habsburg to return to their thrones, there would have been no Hitler.”
(Churchill)
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Happy birthday, Johann Joseph Couven.
November 10, 1701 in Aachen, Germany.
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Jonathan Bate’s magnificent history of gardening rests on the idea that every garden is an attempt to recreate the paradise we once lost.
Gardening is our way back to heaven | @BryanAppleyard
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Though Suez and Hungary dominate memories of 1956, it was a year in which the apparently firm ground of the wider postwar world began to develop destabilising cracks.
1956: a prophetic year | Gill Bennett
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Military in their dress whites are lined up along @Pontifex’s motorcade route in Córdoba. He will be celebrating an outdoor Mass at a military aviation school.
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King who unified England deserves a bank holiday, historians say thetimes.com/uk/history/arti…
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Over the past 10 years alone, more than 300 British companies with a combined price tag of over half a trillion pounds at today’s prices have been snapped up by overseas buyers. The traffic in the opposite direction has been far more modest by comparison. ft.trib.al/zBakLhg
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🇮🇶🇯🇴 Prince Hussein of Jordan and King Faisal II of Iraq at Harrow School, England, 1952.
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When Evelyn Waugh visited Notre Dame U on his American lecture tour in 1949 he was irritated by the lack of beer and wine in the university dining halls. His response was to loudly recite from memory Chesterton's poem "The Song of Right and Wrong", it begins:
Feast on wine or fast on water
And your honour shall stand sure,
God Almighty’s son and daughter
He the valiant, she the pure;
If an angel out of heaven
Brings you other things to drink,
Thank him for his kind attentions,
Go and pour them down the sink.
Waugh met Chesterton personally, found him a "a lovable and much loved man abounding in charity and humility" and considered his book The Everlasting Man a "permanent monument" and "one of few really great books of the century."
This from a man known for his monstrous behavior even to his best friends.
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Lamarr co-invented frequency-hopping spread spectrum technology during WWII, which laid the groundwork for modern wireless technologies, including Wi-Fi, GPS, and Bluetooth.
Remembering Hedy Lamarr on her birthday
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Here at last. One of the most controversial British military and political heroes of the first half of the 20th Century-Sir Roger Keyes was impossible to ignore. This book has taken 5 years to research and write and aims to restore him to his rightful place in our national story.
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Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor playing cards while on holiday in Cap Ferrat in 1967. They were neighbours of David Niven, who was irritated by their uber luxe extravagance. When their yacht sailed up to his villa one lunchtime, he said, “Quick everyone! Under the table!”
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Who’s who in the Nvidia scandal english.elpais.com/usa/2026-…
