For more than a hundred years, a small but remarkable piece of ancient clothing sat away from public view inside Bolton Museum’s collections. Few visitors knew it existed, and even fewer had the chance to see its fragile wool fibres, shaped by hands nearly two millennia ago.Now, after a careful conservation project, the Egyptian head…
Dave Bautista (Image: Wikipedia) Success stories tend to look simple from the outside. People see the awards, the fame, the money, but rarely the years of struggle and rejection that came first. Dave Bautista, the actor and former professional wrestler, is open about exactly that gap. “I’m a poor kid from the streets,” he said….
A 29-foot-tall limestone statue of Jesus sits atop Mount Cristo Rey in Lourdes Castanon, Mexico. More than 40,000 pilgrims from around the world journey to the sacred site annually where Texas, New Mexico and the Mexican state of Chihuahua meet. The statue has crowned the summit of the peak since 1939, when it was carved…
A tiny puffin chick has achieved something conservationists on England’s south coast had not witnessed in three decades. After 15 weeks of careful monitoring by National Trust volunteers and seabird expert Dr Richard Caldow, the chick was photographed emerging from a rocky crevice at Dancing Ledge on Dorset’s Isle of Purbeck. The sighting marks the…
Millions of people across the world have spent years watching bald eagle pair Jackie and Shadow build their nest, lay eggs, raise chicks and endure harsh winters through a 24/7 livestream in California’s Big Bear Valley. What began as a simple wildlife camera has now become the driving force behind one of the biggest conservation…
When traversing the hills of Wonogiri in Central Java, today’s visitors might take the dense areas of greenery in stride. The springs nourish nearby villages, the farms have sufficient water for numerous harvests, and the slopes covered with trees conceal the bare ground that used to be visible before. However, very few would think of…
TikToker Sara Gilson, also known as Sara Duffey, has died after police in Oklahoma said she was killed by her estranged husband in an alleged murder-suicide. The tragic incident happened on the night of July 23 in Owasso. Since then, many people have gone back to watch one of Sara’s final TikTok videos, which now…
Popular streamer Kai Cenat has announced that he will be livestreaming with South African singer Tyla once again. This will be their first stream together since their viral 2024 livestream, where Tyla politely turned down Kai after he asked her out. During that stream, she said, “We’re friends though,” a moment that quickly spread across…
Everyone goes through periods when life feels genuinely hard, illness, money worries, loss, setbacks at work, moments when the future feels uncertain. The easy response is often to give up trying. Queen Elizabeth II offered a different way of thinking about those moments in her Christmas broadcast on the 25th of December 2008. “When life…
US reinforcements land on Omaha Beach during the Normandy D-Day landings near Vierville-sur-Mer, France, on June 6, 1944 SEOUL: World War II’s D-Day landing beaches in northern France and the iconic Mount Olympus in Greece were among the sites added to the World Heritage List on Sunday at a UN committee meeting in South Korea…