Sleep Token review masked metallers dont need faces or even a voice to enthral
MetalReviewWembley Arena, London
After vocalist Vessel loses his voice mid-set, the UK band call upon the vast audience they’ve built to carry them through
Sleep Token are metal’s most promising breakout band but they end their best year yet in near disaster. Released back in May, sprawling third album Take Me Back to Eden elevated the mysterious group from beloved cult act to something far bigger. Tonight’s gig sold out in a matter of minutes, with the same happening across North America and Europe.
Benin's train journey back in time | Travel
Benin's train journey back in time Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email A larger than life Frenchman has restored a 1920s train to carry guests between his small chain of hotels up and down Benin. Tim E White and Flora King climb aboard for a unique African journeyRead about Flora's journey and how to book the train here Mon 19 Sep 2011 08.
Clever girl destroyed | John Sutherland
Higher education This article is more than 20 years oldClever girl destroyedThis article is more than 20 years oldJohn SutherlandBlair Hornstine was the pride of Moorestown High - but her brilliant career was too good to be trueTony Blair, Jayson Blair and Blair Hornstine have more in common than a name. Each has come a cropper from accusations of plagiarism. Blair Hornstine, a senior at Moorestown High School, New Jersey, was all set to be valedictorian (top pupil) at the school's graduation ceremony, on June 19.
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TheatreReviewRoyal Court, LondonYou may, according to taste, find the title a come-on or a turn-off. But, far from being a sensational shocker, Mike Bartlett's play is a sharp, witty study of a man helplessly torn between his longtime male partner and a loving woman. Bartlett's theme, in fact, is less tortured bisexuality than the paralysing indecision that stems from not knowing who one really is.
Ironically, the dithering protagonist, John, is the only character to be given a name.
Courtroom video shows defendant attacking judge in Nevada | Las Vegas
Las VegasCourtroom video shows defendant attacking judge in NevadaMary Kay Holthus and court officials injured in incident which has led to new charges against Deobra Delone Redden
A defendant has attacked a judge during a felony battery case, dragging her to the floor and sparking a brawl involving court officials and attorneys, officials and witnesses have said.
In a violent scene captured on courtroom video on Wednesday, Deobra Delone Redden jumped over a defence table and the judge’s bench, knocking the Clark county district judge Mary Kay Holthus from her seat and against a wall then pulled her to the floor.
Crossword blogCrosswordsCrossword blog: three-dimensional cryptic crosswordsAlan Connor has his mind fried by Eric Westbrook, who devises 3D crosswords with clues by Guardian settersI suppose someone was always going to do it.
Consider Dr Ferdinand Maack, a 19th-century German eccentric who decided that chess was (a) insufficiently difficult and (b) insufficiently like warfare, so added a third dimension and devised "Raumschach", not unlike the tri-dimensional chess they play on the USS Enterprise.
Why is it necessary to travel 11km per second to escape the earth's gravity (escape velocity), when
SPECULATIVE SCIENCEWhy is it necessary to travel 11km per second to escape the earth's gravity (escape velocity), when surely any speed will do, as long as you keep going up? Luke, Wellington NZ
In a way, you are right. if you went straight up at any speed, eventually you would get so far from the earth that the effect of the Earth's gravity was negligable. However, where the 11km per hour comes in is that it is the speed at which an object, rather than being held in orbit around the earth or falling back to it due to gravity, will be thrown outwards by sufficient centrifugal force to describe an open curve away from the planet.
Honey Ltd: 'After 45 years, we're finally going to get copies of our own record'
The ObserverPsychedeliaHoney Ltd were signed to Lee Hazlewood's label in the late 1960s, but stardom eluded them. Now their 'lost' cult debut album is finally getting the chance it deservesIn the summer of 1968, four 19-year-old friends left their home city of Detroit for Los Angeles, hoping to swap Motown for California Dreamin'. Marsha Jo Temmer (now known as Temmer Darigan), Laura Polkinghorne (now Laura Creamer) and sisters Joan and Alex Sliwin were students at Wayne State University who had found each other and formed a girl group, working out harmonies and dance routines in their lunch break.
Iraq executes Chemical Ali | Iraq
Iraq This article is more than 14 years oldIraq executes Chemical AliThis article is more than 14 years oldAli Hassan al-Majid was notorious for the gassing of more than 5,000 Kurds in 1988 and other brutal campaignsAli Hassan al-Majid, better known as Chemical Ali, was executed today for crimes against humanity in Iraq's highest profile execution since Saddam Hussein was hanged three years ago.
"The death sentence against Ali Hassan al-Majid has been carried out,"
Mark Twain | Mark Twain
Mark TwainMark Twain(1835-1910 )1835-1910
"The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them"
BirthplaceFlorida, US
EducationTwain moved with his family to Hannibal, Missouri at the age of four, and received a public school education there.
Other jobsHaving worked as a printer and riverboat pilot during his teenage years, Twain had a brief stint as a silver miner in Nevada before getting a job on the Daily Territorial Enterprise newspaper in Virginia.