As Dark Side of the Moon: Redux shows, when it comes to lyrics, less is usually more: The cover to Dark Side of the Moon: Redux. Roger Waters There’s a scene in The Simpsons episode, Lisa The Simpson (1998), where Lisa is watching a jazz violinist’s performance and a man is criticising it. “You have …
Why archaeologists usually rebury their excavations: Hadrian’s Wall in Northern England is a popular tourist spot for those interested in British history. Visitors this year will get the chance to see the Roman bathhouse at Birdoswald before it is reburied by archaeologists. Birdoswald was a Roman military base on Hadrian’s Wall, which was built in …
Big defence projects are usually late and over budget – here’s what we can learn from the build-up to WW2: UK defence minister Alex Chalk visited Rosyth shipyard in Fife, Scotland a few days ago to kick off construction on the second ship in a new class of frigates for the Royal Navy. The navy …
Africa’s smaller cities are usually overlooked: they shouldn’t be: Long prices in Ghana's Cape Coast have been soaring. Photo by Cristina Aldehuela / AFP via Getty Images Often when one thinks or writes about urbanisation in Africa, mega-cities or primary cities like Lagos, Nairobi, Addis Ababa or Kampala, come to mind. Little, however, is written …
A cool South African City image: British Library digitised image from page 102 of “Narrative of an Expedition to explore the river Zaire, usually called the Congo, in South Africa, in 1816 under the direction of Captain J. K. Tuckey, R.N : To which is added, the journal of Professor Smit Image by The British …
A cool South African City image: British Library digitised image from page 537 of “Narrative of an Expedition to explore the river Zaire, usually called the Congo, in South Africa, in 1816 under the direction of Captain J. K. Tuckey, R.N : To which is added, the journal of Professor Smit Image by The British …
How many browser tabs do you usually have open?: Here’s a potentially loaded question: How many browser tabs do you usually have open at one time? Do you have multiple windows, each with multiple tabs? Or are you a minimalist, and only have a couple of tabs open at once. Another option is to move a …
Nobel literature row: usually it takes a world war to disrupt the prize: The Swedish Academy has announced it will not select a Nobel laureate in literature for 2018. Instead, two laureates will be appointed 2019, one for 2018 and one for 2019. The decision is not unique. The prize has been withheld on no …