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Young apprentices are shaping the development of the £23 million Pioneer Place retail and leisure scheme, which is due to open in autumn 2023.

The action-packed film "The Woman King," released on Sept. 16, debuted at No. 1 at the box office opening weekend, earning $19 million and gar...

  1747 (undated)         1 : 10134000 This is the earliest English map of Tibet, engraved for Braddock Mead's A New General Collection of Voyages and Travels, published under his pseudonym 'John Green' by Thomas Astley in 1747. It is one of the few maps of the region to rely (ultimately) on local sources - although the mapmaker's claim that the map was 'drawn from that made by Lama Mathematicians' does not include the chain of Jesuit missionaries and French cartographers linking the 'Lama Mathematicians' to the 'English engraver'. The map covers an area from northern India (Delhi i...

Freetown: The Original Sin  By Dr. Vandy Kanyako, Portland, USA “Land” played a critical role in the founding and shaping (literally) of modern Freetown. The first set of settlers from Europe, North America and the Caribbean were lured to what is now Freetown with the promise of “free land”. Right from the outset, however, due to a confluence of factors, this highly desirable immobile asset proved to be an explosive issue that soon pitted the new arrivals, the Koya Temne and the British authorities against one another. The history of modern Freetown and by extension, S...