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Concorde
From initial options placed by 16 airlines, by the time of the first commercial flights, only three had converted those to genuine orders.
The Bloomsbury Group
At their core this upper middle-class set of English men and women consisted of 10 members.
Thanks Mum!
The mother of an Emperor Penguin appoints the father to sit atop the incubating egg while she commutes up to a 100 mile round-trip to the ocean to dive for food.
Celebrating the Rites of Spring!
In Japan cherry blossom festivals take place nationwide from late February to May, but the Spring Equinox is a public holiday...
The Cheltenham Festival
The highlight Gold Cup is contested over 3 miles 2 and a half furlongs for entrants 5 years and older and involves 22 obstacles.
The End is Coming
A notoriously slow scribe George R. R. Martin’s epic tale began with the title that the TV show adopted as its own ‘A Game of Thrones’ which hit the book stands in 1996.
