70 years ago today, Disneyland was dedicated and opened in Anaheim, California. It is the most visited theme park in world history with 757 million visits since it opened as of December 2021. In 2022, the park had approximately 16.9 million visits, making it the second most visited amusement park in the world that year,…
Watch Norway’s Signe Gaupset confidently strike from near the halfway line, narrowly missing Italy keeper Laura Giuliani’s goal. Source link
Bat boys often blend into the background, becoming bit players in the operations of a major league baseball game. But the Philadelphia Phillies recently gave their bat boy, Adam Crognale, the star treatment, creating a hype video that helped get him elected to this year’s All-Star Game ball crew. Thanks in part to the video…
PA Media Sandie Peggie complained about sharing changing facilities with a transgender doctor An employment tribunal involving a female nurse and a transgender doctor, which has become the latest front in the battle over gender policy, is resuming in Dundee. Sandie Peggie was suspended from her role as a nurse with NHS Fife last year…
Belle Isle Marsh Reservation – credit NewtonCourt CC BY-SA 4.0. There are roughly 1,000 native bird species in the 50 States, and if you stand long enough on the walkways of Boston’s Belle Isle Marsh Reservation, you could see around one-fourth of them. This protected Mid-Atlantic salt marsh remnant has recorded an astonishing 271 species…
Kate Whannel Political reporter Getty Images Data showing the immigration status of those claiming universal credit (UC) – a benefit designed to help both employed and unemployed people with living costs – has been published for the first time. In June, nearly eight million people received universal credit, 83.6% of whom were British and Irish…
A bottle containing a note from a Newfoundland couple is shown on a beach in southwestern Ireland – credit Kate Gay, handout From the shores of Newfoundland to the shores of Ireland comes the story of two young lovers frozen in time within the blue glass of a wine bottle. Separated by 5 time zones,…
BBC Constance Marten was a disciple of infamous Christian preacher, TB Joshua, who was accused of rape and violence in a BBC News investigation. Marten spent four months at Joshua’s Synagogue Church of All Nations in Nigeria as a teenager. A fellow disciple, who knew Marten when she was at the church, told the BBC…
70 years ago today, 18 Nobel laureate scientists signed the Mainau Declaration publicly decrying nuclear weapons. Within one year, 34 others—mostly chemists and physicists—joined the German nuclear scientists Otto Hahn and Max Born in calling for an end to perilous radioactive bombs. READ the text of the Declaration… (1955) The original scientists, by Vincenzo108 –…
EPA One report about failings in its programme-making is difficult for the BBC. Two on the same day could be catastrophic – and that’s what BBC bosses woke up to on Monday morning. The day has been about publicly apologising, announcing action plans and trying to turn a corner – on the Wallace misconduct story…
