Chuck Yeager, the most famous test pilot of his generation, who was the first to break the sound barrier and, thanks to Tom Wolfe, came to personify the death-defying aviator who possessed the elusive yet unmistakable “right stuff,” died on Monday in Los Angeles. He was 97. Read the full
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Daniel Goldwater Chef CMRJ Jerusalem Israel Jachnun Bread with Hilba Jachnun is a long baking bread, traditionally baked for the Sabbath and religious holidays as cooking is forbidden on the Sabbath due to religious observance. Jachnun is very much a unique traditional food brought by the Jews of Yemen to
Caitjan Gainty King’s College London Agnes Arnold-Forster University of Bristol Following the good news from three separate COVID-19 vaccine trials, optimism that life might be “back to normal by spring” is running high. There are many reasons to temper this optimism as there is a lot we don’t
You can purchase Nieuw Zeeland An English-Speaking Polynesian Country With A Dutch Name: A Humorous History of New Zealand by Geoffrey Corfield from Amazon today. New Zealand is the first democratic country in the world to give women the vote (1893); also the first to split the atom, climb Mount
Stuff has gone all woke and wet and in the process drowned any credibility they once had by apologising to Maori for over three centuries of bad reporting. Over three centuries? That means since 1720 Stuff and its papers have supposedly been unfair on Maori. Hmmm….three centuries? It is
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Tootoooleaava Dr. Fanaafi Aiono-Le Tagaloa University of Waikato Within minutes of news that crew members of the cargo ship Fesco Askold had tested positive for COVID-19, a social media storm broke across Samoa. COVID-free until then, the island nation’s anxiety was understandable. More so when you consider its history.
A hard-hitting letter written by Prince Philip providing a withering critique of New Zealand following the 1954 state visit has recently been auctioned in England. The letter was expected to fetch £300. It sold for twelve times that, reaching £3,600. The comments in the letter made for interesting reading
Michael Cook mercatornet.com Just as slavery is the Achilles heel of 19th-century institutions, eugenics is the weak point of abortion providers. The Black Lives Matter movement has unearthed links to slavery in public statuary and founders of American universities. Similarly, Planned Parenthood has had to distance itself from Margaret
The Labour Party may be useless at most things they do but one thing they are excellent at is acting like arrogant third-termers. It’s kind of weird to see people like Woods, Twyford et al behaving like entitled prats from just their first few days in the job. But
It’s no secret that English is a tough language for non-native speakers to learn. Back in my student days, when I drove taxis part-time, I remember a fellow (non-Australian born) driver flipping anxiously through his street directory (that alone should tell you how long ago it was), trying to
Francis Phillips mercatornet.com The Hitler Conspiracies: The Third Reich and the Paranoid Imagination. By Richard J. Evans. Allen Lane. £20.00 $US30.99 Richard J. Evans, former Regius Professor of History at Cambridge and a specialist on Germany’s wartime history, has written a highly readable as well as
