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The ice destroyed his ship. ❄️
Eight hundred miles from the nearest help.
He brought all twenty-eight men home.
Ernest Shackleton. 1914. Set out to cross Antarctica. The Endurance became trapped in pack ice. Then crushed. Then sank.
Five months on the ice. Three lifeboats to
Food for thought.
Trump, Hormuz and the End of the Free Ride
For half a century, Western strategists have known that the Strait of Hormuz is the acute point where energy, sea power and political will intersect. That knowledge is not in dispute. What is new in this war with
The Queen banned them. 50,000 people rioted anyway. 🍞👑
In 1592 Queen Elizabeth I banned the sale of spiced buns. You could only buy one on Good Friday. Christmas. Or at a funeral.
So every Good Friday the Chelsea Bun House opened at 3 in the morning. And the crowds came.
The CBA is scolding an unnamed journalist for criticizing a judge, calling it a "crude effort at undermining public confidence in the judiciary."
Since this is clearly about me: I will not apologize for my column about Justice Faisal Mirza two weeks ago.
OK, science geeks. Sex testing and sport.
There are many people spreading misinformation about the reliability of sex testing, repeating arguments made for its abolition some 25 years ago.
I don’t know if they have noticed that we’ve undergone something of a genetics revolution
