Posted on April 2, 2024
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| Aldo Pusey
Autobiography and memoirReviewThis uplifting memoir, about a couple who embark on a long coastal walk after becoming homeless, was shortlisted for the 2018 Costa biography awardThe day after Raynor and Moth found out they were going to lose the Welsh farm where they had brought up their two children, a doctor told Moth that he had a rare and incurable degenerative brain disease. Within days the bailiffs came knocking and they were homeless.
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Posted on April 1, 2024
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| Aldo Pusey
Netherlands This article is more than 4 years old'A little miracle': Dutch statesman's diary found 200 years after it was lostThis article is more than 4 years oldJohan van Oldenbarnevelt chronicled final months before he was beheaded on 13 May 1619
Johan van Oldenbarnevelt is arguably the greatest Dutch statesman, as one of the founding fathers who helped liberate the Netherlands from Spanish rule, but for 200 years the whereabouts of a diary chronicling his final months before he was beheaded has been a mystery.
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Posted on April 1, 2024
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| Kary Bruening
GamesIf the coronavirus means you’re facing weeks stuck at home, blasting aliens or exploring oceans together online is a great way to stay in touch with friends
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Posted on April 1, 2024
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| Chauncey Koziol
The nature of ...Science This article is more than 7 months oldA skeleton: it’s a good thing bones don’t blushThis article is more than 7 months oldHelen Sullivan‘He knew the anguish of the marrow’
When I was eight, my mother made me a costume for a Halloween party. Even at eight, this seemed like an important party. The costume was beautiful, as the things my mother made often were: more beautiful than a child’s thing ought to be, more beautiful than what a mother ought to be able to make after work.
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Posted on April 1, 2024
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| Chauncey Koziol
‘Basically, what I seek is variety’ … Gina McKee. Stylist: Ella-Louise Gaskell at Stella Creative Artists. Photograph: David Levene/The Guardian‘Basically, what I seek is variety’ … Gina McKee. Stylist: Ella-Louise Gaskell at Stella Creative Artists. Photograph: David Levene/The GuardianActingInterview‘I wouldn’t admit I was an actor. I once said I was a tree surgeon’: Gina McKee on confidence, class and #MeTooZoe WilliamsAfter more than 40 years in film and TV, the star of Our Friends in the North is about to share the screen with Harry Styles.
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Posted on April 1, 2024
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| Valentine Belue
Dear JeremyWork & careersI have discovered that my colleague’s son is alive and away studying at university – she seems to be lying to abuse our trustTwice a week we publish problems that will feature in a forthcoming Dear Jeremy advice column in the Saturday Guardian so that readers can offer their own advice and suggestions. We then print the best of your comments alongside Jeremy’s own insights. Here is the latest dilemma – what are your thoughts?
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Posted on April 1, 2024
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| Kary Bruening
Illustration: Paul Ryding/The GuardianWhen the UK’s jab programme began, expectant mothers were told to steer clear – so Samantha decided to wait until she had had her baby. Two weeks after giving birth, she died in hospital
by Sirin KaleIt was typical of Samantha Willis that she bought the food for her baby shower herself. No fuss; she didn’t want other people to be put out. She even bought a cheese board, despite the fact that, because she was pregnant, she couldn’t eat half of it.
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Posted on April 1, 2024
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| Chauncey Koziol
Higher educationThe mysterious death of Dr GlockWhen an American archaeologist was shot dead by a masked gunman on the West Bank in 1992, both sides of the Israel-Palestine conflict came under suspicion. Was it the Palestinians trying to halt the peace process then in progress, or was it the Israelis, incensed by his potentially explosive archaeological findings? Then again, it might just have been the tragic result of a squabble between colleagues.
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Posted on April 1, 2024
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| Jenniffer Sheldon
Greece This article is more than 4 years oldTourists urged to avoid riding donkeys up Santorini's steep stepsThis article is more than 4 years oldGreek island’s famous donkeys found to have spinal injuries, saddle sores and exhaustion
Put yourself in their hooves: that is the message holidaymakers will be asked to consider before deciding to ascend the 600 steps that zigzag up the cliffs of Santorini on the back of a donkey.
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