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The handshake is said to have begun as proof of an empty hand, no weapon and no immediate threat, and for thousands of years that simple clasp has carried a message spoken greetings still cannot: I come in peace
Space Daily Editorial Team
On the front panel of a limestone throne base excavated at Nimrud in 1962, two kings are shown gripping hands to seal a pact. The scene commemorates the Assyrian king Shalmaneser III backing the Baby ...[Continue Reading]
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Has Ukraines Zelenskyy created a rival by sacking his defence minister?
Mansur Mirovalev
Kyiv, Ukraine At 35, with no military background or battlefield experience, Mykhailo Fedorov seemed unfit to be wartime Ukraines defence minister. But he was acclaimed for his reforms while serving ...[Continue Reading]
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I've stayed in thousands of British hotels and this is my favourite, by the Hotel Inspector - plus my other top UK picks, from country manors to a cosy pub
Inspector Calls
The Daily Mail recently lifted the lid on some of the country's most glamorous hotels which have now fallen on hard times. From the previous allure as the 'grande dames' of the hotel world, many of ...[Continue Reading]
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I put six minutes of birdsong through my headphones during the worst week of the year and something in my chest actually loosened
Nato Lagidze
I put six minutes of birdsong through my headphones during the worst week of the year, and something in my chest actually loosened. Nothing singular had gone wrong. It was the more ordinary kind of ...[Continue Reading]
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Transcript: Whats Really Driving the Progressive Surge
Right Now With Perry Bacon
And in part, the incumbent advantages in all those polls was almost entirely name recognition. And like Julia said, it seemed to be the DSA folks were the ones doing the actual organization, and ever ...[Continue Reading]
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The Supreme Courts Most Brazen Attack on Congress Yet
Simon Lazarus
Three years ago, facing bipartisan clamor for judicial reform, especially term limits and Supreme Court conflict-of-interest safeguards, the conservative justices, in particular Roberts, startled o ...[Continue Reading]
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