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By Angus Peter Campbell © PA SNP MSP Karen Adam makes an affirmation in sign language during the recent oath and affirmation ceremony at Holyrood Sign up for our daily newsletter featuring the top stories from The Press and Journal. Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up Politics has always been mostly about symbol and gesture, so it was no surprise – though a bit tiresome and predictable – to see all the new MSPs strut their stuff in Holyrood last week when they took their oaths. Little white rose...

Just a couple of days ago, on Facebook, I was asked when I thought “the aliens” would land and when we would finally get definitive disclosure. Well, first and foremost, we don’t know for sure that the UFO phenomenon is extraterrestrial. Nor do we know that “they” have disclosure on their agenda – even if they have agendas like ours. The fact is that just because the UFO subject is big news now, and with new revelations coming out of government and military agencies, doesn’t necessarily mean that we are going to see ourselves immersed in a real-life not think we’re going to g...

Early Roy Lichtenstein: A fount of insight on postwar America By Murray Whyte Globe Staff,Updated May 7, 2021, 8:43 a.m. Email to a Friend Roy Lichtenstein's "Washington Crossing the Delaware II," from about 1951.Estate of Roy Lichtenstein/Courtesy of Gabriel Miller WATERVILLE, Maine — In 1940, an Ohio State undergraduate named Roy Lichtenstein — yes, that Roy Lichtenstein — made a loose and gestural ink sketch of Paul Bunyan felling a tree with a mighty swing. He passed it off to his roommate with a wink. Keep it, he said. I’m going to be famous someday. Someday came, and...

New book investigates the relationship between Benjamin West and John Singleton Copley Allen Staley, Copley and West in England 1775–1815 | May 2021 | 176 pp | HB. 290 x 240 mm | 93 illus. | 9781916237803 Published by The Burlington Press. Distributed by Paul Holberton Publishing. LONDON .- This beautifully illustrated book is the first in-depth investigation of the relationship between two of the greatest 18th-century American artists, Benjamin West and John Singleton Copley. West and Copley have always and properly been viewed as the two greatest eighteenth-century American artists, despi...

The Marquis of Granby, based on Church Street in Howley, is on the market for £250,000. Leisure property specialists Fleurets are marketing the pub which has a Tudor-style frontage. It is listed as being a pub with potential as a restaurant and B&B. The pub went on the market last year for £265,000. The Marquis of Granby was one of two Church Street pubs to be named in honour of a Seven Years War hero. Lieutenant general John Manners was famed for his military prowess and for charging at the head of the British cavalry during the Battle of Warburg in 1760.