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First Minister Humza Yousaf was right about one thing on April 1, the day he affirmed his pride in the Hate Crime Act that had just become law. There was a swell in the waters.

Remember when kids were taught cursive in school?

<strong>Was this impromptu festival – a farmer’s field in Hampshire that hosted</strong> <strong>comedy talents including</strong> <strong>Rowan Atkinson, Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Billy Connolly and Rik Mayall –</strong> <strong>where the first seed of Comic Relief was planted?</strong>

I'm not a giddy software guru. I'm a hard-bitten hardware guy. I remember those days of yesteryear when I hadn’t even heard about esoteric things like virtualization, containerization, disaggregation, and other “-ations” the discussion of which does my poor old noggin no favors whatsoever. Now, by comparison, I know enough to nod knowingly and grunt…

A 60-page pamphlet printed in Britain in 1883, consisting of selections from Pedro Carolinos The New Guide of the Conversation in Portuguese and Englis...

An opera singer has won her High Court battle with her screenwriter ex-boyfriend over claims she helped him pen a £33million blockbuster while they were together. Julia Kogan insisted she worked in closely intertwined collaboration with former partner Nicholas Martin to write the script for the award-winning 2016 film Florence Foster Jenkins. The Oscar nominated biographical - starring Meryl Streep and Hugh Grant - is about the life of a flamboyant New York socialite and aspiring opera perform...

Thisisengineering, Pexels This year proved, once again, that discoveries in science, history, and virtually every other sphere simply never stop—not even during a pandemic. On the latest episode of The List Show, Mental Floss editor-in-chief Erin McCarthy counts down (or up, rather) an epic list of 100 fascinating things we learned in 2020. Don’t worry, it’s not all about zoonotic diseases and the efficacy of face masks. We recently found out, for example, that Bob Odenkirk almost nabbed ...

Did you know theres a club for people who have been ejected out of a plane, and an organization for people who are just ... happy? Read on to find out about those clubs and more in this list adapted from The List Show on YouTube. 1. Martin-Baker Ejection Tie Club Pilots who activated their Martin-Baker ejection seats and lived to tell the tale are officially inducted into the Martin-Baker Ejection Tie Club. After surviving their harrowing ordeal, pilots receive a tie, tie pin, patch, certificat...