While primarily a painter of people, the Dutch artist Rembrandt van Rijn immortalized at least one tulip. In 1634 he painted his wife, Saskia van Uylenburgh, as Flora, goddess of spring and flowers, crowned with a wreath of blooms, of which the largest is a tulip. Its petals are unmistakably striped, with white and red […]
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Sri Lanka blocked several social media networks in the wake of terrorist attacks on Sunday, including Facebook and the messaging service WhatsApp. The extraordinary step reflects growing global concern, particularly among governments, about the capacity of American-owned networks to spin up violence. YouTube, Instagram, Snapchat and Viber were also inaccessible, according to internet monitoring groups.
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Kawhi Leonard missed the NBA playoffs last season, in multiple ways. He wasn’t playing the games. He wasn’t feeling the games, either. That’s not a problem this season for the 2014 NBA Finals MVP. Healthy and happy, Leonard has the Toronto Raptors one win away from the second round. He scored 34 points and the
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When asked about delaying Brexit to 31 October, Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg said: “I don’t think it’s a good idea and it’s not delivering on the referendum result.” “People expected to leave on 29 March and here we are heading towards Halloween. There is some symbolism in that, I think,” he said. The Brexiteer also
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Psychologically, scholarships can be exciting and make students feel wanted, Ms. Keane said, but students need to consider the full picture. Think of scholarships as “coupons,” she said, and consider the percentage of the total cost that such aid will cover. If you get a $10,000 scholarship but need to cover costs of $20,000, that’s
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The drinking water in Paradise, California, where 85 people died last year in the nation’s worst wildfire in a century, is contaminated with the cancer-causing chemical benzene, officials said. Officials said they believe the contamination happened after the November firestorm created a toxic combination of gases in burning homes that got sucked into the water
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Image copyright Getty Images/Manchester Museum Image caption Spider experts think the jumping spider (right) looks a bit like the famous caterpillar A jumping spider has been named after Eric Carle, the author of children’s book The Very Hungry Caterpillar. The arachnid was found by naturalist Stefan Obenauer in a Hong Kong park, who contacted Manchester
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Roughly 31,000 employees of the grocery store chain Stop & Shop launched the largest private-sector strike in the U.S. in years, walking off the job at 240 stores across New England on Thursday. Leaders at the United Food and Commercial Workers union declared the strike after months of negotiations with the company failed to produce
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Organist Johann Vexo was evacuated from Notre-Dame when fire alarms sounded. He had performed at the cathedral for many years and said was “a part of my life which is destroyed”. The 850-year-old gothic landmark was extensively damaged when the blaze took hold on Monday. President Emmanuel Macron has vowed the cathedral will be rebuilt
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Environmental protesters who have blocked London roads and bridges for more than three days said Thursday they plan to take their civil disobedience campaign to Heathrow, Europes busiest airport, at the start of the Easter holiday weekend. The Extinction Rebellion group said it would mount a protest at the airport on Friday. The group vowed
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