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Hope Slide in Sunshine Valley, British Columbia
The mountains of British Columbia tend to be extremely steep because they've been oversteepened by deep and extensive glacial downcutting. The result is that slopes are extremely unstable; gravity will have its way eventually.
That's what happened in Sunshine Valley around 7 a.m. on January 9, 1965. It was originally thought that a small earthquake might have been the actual trigger of the slide, due to a seismometer reading at the time of the slide. It's now thought, though, that the seismic
Debenhams shoppers rush to buy £3,000 Cartier-style watch with 92% discount in massive Blue Cross sale
Right now, shoppers can pick up the GV2 Padova Gemstone Swiss Quartz Diamonds Watch with a massive 92% discount in the ...
New Patek Philippe collection is its first in 25 years
Patek Philippe just launched the Cubitus – its first collection in 25 years. Here's everything you need to know.
Black Swan Hotel in Bendigo, Australia
This unassuming pub is a building that one might walk past without a second glance at the treasures that lie within. But as soon as you walk in, you'll notice a quirkiness as you gaze at the bar, littered with motorcycle paraphernalia. On closer inspection, one will note a few motorbikes propped up on the stage like someone just parked them there before stepping down to order a beverage and then left. Walking around the bottom floor its becomes apparent that there are motorcycles everywhere
10 artists announced for The Artsy Vanguard 2025.
Today, Artsy has released the names of its 2025 Vanguard artists. This annual feature shines a spotlight on early-career artists who are making waves internationally. The Artsy Vanguard artists for 2025 are Agnes Waruguru, Chris Oh, Emily Kraus, Hettie Inniss, Holly Hendry, Laís Amaral, Melissa Joseph, Moka Lee, Taylor Simmons, and Xin Liu. The list includes artists from across the globe, from Kenyan artist Waruguru to Brazilian abstrac
Paseo del Sistema Solar in Manzanares, Spain
The Paseo del Sistema Solar (Solar System Walk) is a three-dimensional model of the solar system that was inaugurated on September 10, 2010. This project was conceived by scientist Julián Gómez-Cambronero Pacheco.
It offers an opportunity to understand the vastness of our universe on a pleasant walk through the park. In 2007, Gómez-Cambronero, a professor at Wright State University in Ohio, created the first design for this project, which scales the size of the planets and their distance from
Peanuts Gang Bronzes in Saint Paul, Minnesota
Charles M. Schulz, creator of the comic strip Peanuts, was born in Minneapolis and spent his childhood in Saint Paul.At its height, Peanuts was published daily in 2,600 papers throughout 75 countries, and translated into more than 20 languages. Over the almost 50 years that Peanuts was published, Schulz drew nearly 18,000 strips.
After Schulz died in 2000, colorful fiberglass figures featuring his beloved characters were installed around the Twin Cities. Amazing as these are the best commemora
New: Ulysse Nardin Freak One Navy Blue
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Were the Salem Witch Trials Ruff on Dogs?
This story was originally published on The Conversation. It appears here under a Creative Commons license.
I teach a course on New England witchcraft trials, and students always arrive with varying degrees of knowledge of what happened in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692.
Nineteen people accused of witchcraft were executed by hanging, another was pressed to death and at least 150 were imprisoned in conditions that caused the death of at least five more innocents. Each semester, a few students
The Artsy Vanguard 2025: Laís Amaral
Brazilian artist Laís Amaral’s earliest memories of artmaking trace back to her childhood in São Gonçalo, in southeastern Rio de Janeiro, when she began drawing a series of self-portraits. She rendered two versions of herself: the woman she believed she was, and the woman she wanted to be. The second woman always had a much lighter complexion than the first, and her general notion of success appeared to hinge predominantly on Eurocentric
The Artsy Vanguard 2025: Holly Hendry
Twisting loops of tube that mimic sprawling guts and compressed building materials evoking surgical slices: Holly Hendry’s ambitious, large-scale sculptural installations are simultaneously bodily and industrial. These hefty sculptural interventions, created in a surprisingly soft pastel palette, reveal complex inner workings that usually stay concealed under skin or behind walls. The British artist is fascinated by gore and mess that is
The Artsy Vanguard 2025: Hettie Inniss
Upon entering painter Hettie Inniss’s London studio this past summer, the first work one could see was the outline of a large spoon strategically drawn across two canvases. It appears to be the beginnings of a diptych. Even at such an early stage in the painting, the spoon’s presence indicates a slight shift from what the artist has become known for—vibrant, vaguely discernible interior spaces, often referencing the act of remembering. “I
The Artsy Vanguard 2025: Melissa Joseph
It’s hard to know where to look first in Melissa Joseph’s midtown Manhattan studio. Perhaps the work table, piled with tufts of wool in an array of colors that would make the Crayola 64-pack blush? Perhaps the heap of tires in the corner, or the knickknacks that line the windows overlooking 39th Street. Or maybe a small, figurative felt piece displayed in a shadow box frame, depicting a sunset, as filtered through the frame of a cell phon
The Artsy Vanguard 2025: Emily Kraus
“Watch your head,” said painter Emily Kraus. The young American artist was showing me around the large structure that fills her studio space in East London—a metal scaffold fitted with a series of planks and rotating poles on which multiple canvases are stretched. This is how Kraus makes her paintings: First, she stitches each canvas into a loop, then she wraps it around four poles, forming a kind of square tube, before applying marks in
The Artsy Vanguard 2025: Moka Lee
Moka Lee’s image of youth is shaped by mobile screens and social media. Born at around the start of Gen Z in Korea, she differs from those born in the early 2010s (Gen Alpha), who grew up with smartphones. Lee first experienced the pre-mobile internet landscape before encountering mobile culture in her teens. The artist’s exploration of human stories through smartphone screens has led her to gain new attention throughout 2024. This year a
The Artsy Vanguard 2025: Xin Liu
A pair of lips, pouting, is lightly dusted in a layer of freezing ice crystals, floating in the middle of a framed “canvas” of silicon. Evoking the misty cloud of exhaled breath on a cold morning, this cast bronze piece, entitled The Mothership (2023), doesn’t just look frozen, it is frozen. “I want it to be not just visually cold, but physically freezing. So I made a sculpture with a cooling mechanism to generate a layer of frost,” said
The Artsy Vanguard 2025: Chris Oh
Experiencing Chris Oh’s mind-boggling work is like stepping inside a cabinet of curiosities where time collapses. Culling imagery from European Old Masters, the artist paints appropriated details onto objects ranging from natural specimens to discarded bags and boxes. In Swell (2024), a tearful Mary Magdalene, excerpted from Dieric Bouts’s The Lamentation of Christ (ca. 1460), locks eyes with the viewer from the hollowed inside of an irid
The Artsy Vanguard 2025: Taylor Simmons
“I lived, bitch,” was the first text Taylor Simmons sent his best friend after waking up from a three-day coma. On July 6, 2020, Simmons left his house in Brooklyn to grab some food. During the early quarantine, the Atlanta-born artist had grown accustomed to the empty streets, and while biking without a helmet, he was T-boned. His memory of the events is blurry, but the artist, who had sported dreadlocks since he was a kid, recalls plead
Timex is dropping a £1 grail to turn back the clocks on affordable watches
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How Aleksei Navalny’s Prison Diaries Got Published
<div>In his posthumous memoir, compiled with help from his widow, Yulia Navalnaya, Navalny faced the fact that Vladimir Putin might succeed in silencing him. The book will keep “his legacy alive,” Navalnaya said.</div>