The SNP lost tens of thousands of members under Nicola Sturgeon – here’s why that should worry her successor: Alamy/Xinhua All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real condition of life and his relations with his kind. …
How the apartheid regime burnt books — in their tens of thousands: The Railway Depot furnace at Kaserne, Johannesburg in 1971. Banned and confiscated books and magazines were burnt weekly. Wits Student On the advice of the State Librarian one fine day in the 1970s, a truck transported thousands of books and magazines from Pretoria’s …
Power Ranking The Big Ten’s Weird And Awesome Rivalry Trophies: The Big Ten is home to a rich football tradition that dates back more than 100 years. Although perennial powers like Ohio State and Michigan have stood on the national stage for decades, the conference's true character is reflected through the unique trophies exchanged annually …
Tens of thousands of dead fish just washed up on a Cornish beach – here’s why: Katrina Slack It must have been an incredibly morbid sight. Walkers on Marazion beach in Cornwall, at the south-western tip of mainland Britain, recently discovered tens of thousands of dead fish had been washed ashore overnight. One eyewitness told …