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Twice engulfed by flames and with mystery still surrounding its future, the demise of Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s masterpiece, The Glasgow School…
From Andy Warhol's actual cookie jar to a trip to the restaurant at Hospitalfield House in Arbroath, Murray reminisces on the art of food.
They were told not to be afraid; that no one would harm them. But ten days later more than 8000 men and boys had been slaughtered, women and girls raped, and more than 20,000 people had been forced from their homes. The Srebrenica Massacre began on July 11, 1995, when Bosnian Serb units led by General Ratko Mladic captured the town in Bosnia-Herzegovina. The general told the Bosniaks (Bosnian Muslims) “don’t be afraid... no one will harm you” just before the 10-day genocide began. Men and boys were separated from their families and killed, with their bodies dumped in mass grav...
How Bitcoin Uses Fossil Fuels As Elon Musk Says Tesla No Longer Accepting the Crypto On 5/13/21 at 5:21 AM EDT Tesla CEO Elon Musk has announced that the company will no longer allow customers to pay for cars with bitcoin because of concerns about the cryptocurrency's links with fossil fuels. In a tweet on Wednesday, Musk, who is also the CEO of SpaceX, wrote that his electric car company had taken the decision in response to the "rapidly increasing use of fossil fuels for bitcoin mining and transactions." Mining is the term used to describe how new coins are brought into circulation.
Died: April 13, 2021. THE death of Chris Carrell, not long after his 80th birthday and after Parkinson’s and age-related illnesses, has deeply saddened countless artists across the UK and beyond, while stirring magical memories among those who experienced his insightful practice of bringing art into the lives of people wherever he worked. His time as director of Glasgow’s Third Eye Centre (1978-1991) was undoubtedly a significant factor in Glasgow achieving its 1990 European City of Culture status, just as Sunderland and Portsmouth both gained a renewed sense of cultural identity fr...