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SQUINTER must say he enjoyed the Belfast Telegraph’s colourful online picture special on the Easter Monday Apprentice Boys parades across This Here Pravince. History, spectacle, vibrancy – it was all there and Squinter was about to email the picture desk to congratulate them on a job well done when he came across this picture (right). The Billy Boys Flute Band Rathcoole, are one of the newer additions to the Belfast band scene, having been formed as recently as 2018. But what, Squinter won...

A mighty citadel with subterranean tunnels, a museum dedicated to the strawberry, and a 400-year-old pub make Namur a great day trip destination

AS Chancellor Hitler, Dr. Schacht, General Goering and other high German officials have plainly stated in recent months, Germany is resolved to resume her rôle as a colonial power. The Nazis profess to prefer the return of Germany's prewar colonies: Togoland, Cameroons, Southwest Africa and German East Africa. These territories are now held as mandates by France and Britain, and the latter countries do not seem at all disposed to surrender them.

Last week, for the first time in five years, Barack Obama returned the White House. To many, he was a sight for sore eyes. What he had come to do was to celebrate the Affordable…

Passover for the Jews of Rhodes Island represents a symbolic metaphor for liberation, healing, and transcendence.

Former Royal Air Force (RAF) Squadron Leader Jack Hemmings proved that age is just a number. The 100-year-old RAF veteran returned to the Miles Gemini ai...

Response to "What is Progressive Realism" ["But the article was essentially about describing the differences between schools of thought while obviously giving evidence the author thought supported a different school than has predominated and was making a case for trying something different"] Robert Wright in the 2nd paragraph makes "realist" a synonym for Kissinger's cynical

Glenn Close, (born March 19, 1947, Greenwich, Connecticut, U.S.), American actress who drew acclaim for her considerable range and versatility. Close grew up in Greenwich, Connecticut, a town her ancestors had helped to found. Her father was a well-known surgeon who left the mansions and well-manicured lawns of Greenwich to open a medical clinic in the Belgian Congo (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo) when Close was 13. She spent several years in Africa and at boarding schools in Switzer...

Dunfermline women have always been made of strong stuff and two ladies that made waves in the 1900’s prove it.

Jack Hemmings takes to the skies in a type of aircraft he last flew in 1948.