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King Charles’ coronation at Westminster Abbey follows Royal Family tradition. The most famous church in the United Kingdom, Westminster Abbey has been the site of 16 royal weddings, the resting ground of 18 monarchs and has served as the venue for 39 coronations. It is the same place where Charles’ mother, Queen Elizabeth II was crowned as well as where her funeral was held

Westminster Abbey will dedicate a new memorial stone to Sir Roger Bannister, the first man to run a mile in under four minutes.

Athlete Sir Roger Bannister, famous for becoming the first man to run a mile in under four minutes, is to be honoured with a memorial at Westminster Abbey. The sub-four minute mile was widely believed to be beyond human capability until Sir Roger achieved the feat. With the help of pacemakers Sir Christopher Chataway and Chris Brasher, the then-medical student ran the distance in three minutes 59.4 seconds at the Iffley Road track at Oxford University on May 6 1954. He won a Commonwealth and a ...

  “If the argument about the time scale for the appearance of life on Earth is correct”, Stephen Hawking observed, echoing Enrico Fermi’s infamous question–Where is Everybody– “there ought to be many other stars, whose planets have life on them. Some of these stellar systems could have formed 5 billion years before the Earth. So why is the galaxy not crawling with self-designing mechanical or biological life forms?” In his famous lecture on “Life in the Universe”, Stephen Haw...

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