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Mixed fortunes as Bajans slip up

Nation News.com 

Barbados enjoyed mixed fortunes on the second day of competition in the FIDE Online Chess Olympiad yesterday. The Bajans defeated Suriname 4-2 but lost to Guatemala 4.5-1.5 and went under to El Salvador...

Rain washes out Masters final

Nation News.com 

Heavy rain in the south-east of the island and a downpour at 12:20 p.m. yesterday caused the abandonment of the final of the Masters Over-40s Cricket Competition at Foursquare Oval, St Philip. Play...

PdP: Consult the people on same-sex issue

Nation News.com 

The People’s Party for Democracy and Development (PdP) wants the Mia Mottley administration to go back to the people. In a press conference yesterday at the Opposition Leader’s office at Worthing,...

BNA: We’re still short of nurses

Nation News.com 

Government’s recruitment of 95 Ghanaian nurses has received support from some bodies, including the Barbados Nurses Association (BNA). However, president Joannah Waterman is reminding the authorities,...

Yes, This British Commander Beat Nazi General Rommel (Twice)

The National Interest 

Warfare History Network

History, Europe

Meet Sir Claude Auchinleck.

Key Point: Rommel was clever, but not unbeatable. Here is how he was bested by one of Britian's finest.

British Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery has gone down in history as the victor of El Alamein and the relentless nemesis of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, Nazi Germany’s famed “Desert Fox.” But Monty’s feat was merely a repeat of that of the British general who preceded him, a general who defeated Rommel not once, but twice. Читать дальше...



Nostalgia shopping takes the biscuit

Express & Star 

The news that Brits have happily sipped and munched their way through £43million of tea, coffee and biscuits during the lockdown made me laugh.

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Москва

Знаменитый ультрамарафонец Максим Егоров пробежит 42,2 км в поддержку фонда «Жизнь в Движении»


Too Close for Comfort

CBC 

There's a natural distance people like to keep between themselves and others. With "physical distancing", we now think differently about personal space. In stories and music, Ben considers what it's like to be too close for comfort.

Out of this World

CBC 

Choral music inspired by the stars, the moon and the sun; along with a pair of motets that are truly "out of this world." Hear ORA Singers' new recording of Spem in Alium, by Thomas Tallis; along with the brand new Forty Part Motet they commissioned from the great living Scottish composer James MacMillan. Other choirs include Voces8, Vancouver Cantata Singers, The Flirtations and the Lorelei Ensemble.


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