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Interview: Adam Lebovitz and Alison LaCroix at the Cambridge Union Image credit: Creative Commons At the centre of American politics is the constitution – a document which has provided a structure for the development and consolidation of American democracy. On the 19th May, the Cambridge Union held a fascinating panel on Democracy in America. In it, the three panel members discuss the history of the US constitution and how it shapes contemporary political discourse today. If you missed it, th...

Credit: Jeremy Selwyn/Evening Standard  SIR – Your recent leader and letters (May 25) drew attention to the multiple nonsenses emanating from Whitehall – particularly the ruling on amateur choirs. Yesterday there was also further confusion over travel rules. What the public needs is a guide on which of the Government’s pronouncements are merely advice and which have the force of law. I fear that we have become so supine during the pandemic and the lockdowns that we are losing the confide...

May 26, 2021 - 11:31 AM Interior Health is holding a COVID-19 immunization clinic today in Kelownas Rutland neighbourhood as the community has one of the lowest vaccination rates in the region. The clinic will be held from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. today, May 26, at Rutland Centennial Park. People who live or work in Rutland will be able to walk up, register and receive a COVID-19 vaccine, according to an Interior Health news release. The vaccines are available to those who have not ...

“The way the buildings will look, be used and how flexible the spaces are, so they can be adapted for different uses, are main considerations,” Mr Hart adds. “Therefore, working collaboratively with all stakeholders are pre-requisites to ensuring what we build enhances both the facilities on offer within the local community, and the landscape of the area the building sits in.”  Another way that Barnes has developed its work in the education sector is geographically.  “Our relationsh...

“The way the buildings will look, be used and how flexible the spaces are, so they can be adapted for different uses, are main considerations,” Mr Hart adds. “Therefore, working collaboratively with all stakeholders are pre-requisites to ensuring what we build enhances both the facilities on offer within the local community, and the landscape of the area the building sits in.”  Another way that Barnes has developed its work in the education sector is geographically.  “Our relationsh...

View Comments One silver lining of the COVID-19 pandemic has been the increased reach that many theaters have found through streaming. "Herding Cats" is taking it one step further — combining streaming and live theater for a performance with actors who span two continents. Jassa Ahluwalia ("Unforgotten," "Peaky Blinders") and Sophie Melville ("Pops," "Iphigenia in Splott") will perform the play by Lucinda Coxonfor an in-person audience on Soho Theatre’s London stage, while Greg Germann (...

Tommy was given the Dickin medal - the animal version of the Victoria Cross. The story began when William Brockbank, who lived at Queen Street, Dalton, entered Tommy in a race from Christchurch on the south coast. A freak storm blew him off course and he landed, exhausted, in occupied Holland. Holland had been cleansed of its racing pigeon stock by the Gestapo, fearful of the birds renowned capabilities as messengers. Tommy was found by a resistance sympathiser, who handed him over to D...

Thursday, 13 May, 2021 - 05:15 FILE - A monarch butterfly clings to a plant at the Monarch Grove Sanctuary in Pacific Grove, California, Dec. 30, 2014. Reuters London - Asharq Al-Awsat A Librarian found a 400-year-old butterfly pressed between the pages of an ancient library book. According to The Metro, the perfectly preserved small tortoiseshell specimen was found inside a 1634 copy of Theatre of Insects, Britains earliest tome ...

“I was looking at some of the fantastic animal books we have and I was going through the pages of the wonderful Theatre of Insects, or Insectorum sive Minimorum Animalium Theatrum to give it its true title . . . While looking through our copy I chanced upon a butterfly (a small tortoiseshell I think) next to its accompanying image. There is a striking similarity between the woodcut and butterfly, which of course was the intention so that the various species could be identified by the amateur ...

A butterfly that could be almost 400 years old has been discovered pressed between the pages of an ancient library book at Cambridge University.  The perfectly preserved specimen, thought to be a small tortoiseshell, was found inside a copy of Englands earliest insect book, Theatre of Insects, published in 1634. The butterfly could be as old as the volume itself, according to experts at Trinity Hall, Cambridge University, which has had the book in its collection since 1996.  The beautiful sp...