The Cherry Blossom Festivals in Washington DC and Vancouver are starting on Saturday March 28th and orgainzers have high hopes for both annual events. In Washington DC the president of the event said that the...
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It's that time of year again when avid horticulturists get set to push their prized plants for the top prizes. The S'pore Garden Festival will be running from July 25th - August 1st. Hoping to get a gallery and...
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As many as 20,000 people are busy cleaning up the enormous amount of algae blocking Olympic waterways in China. State media says 100,000 tons have already been removed, and ships from two other cities have been commissioned to remove the rest by mid-July.On the positive side,...
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OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorCanadian Farmers, the backbone of Canada, are in jeopardy when cheap food imports flooding the Canadian Market sometimes makes one wonder if it is worth getting up at...
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Thirty years ago you'd be hard-pressed to see a cherry blossom, a robin, or a maniacal sneezing fit this time of year. We get these treats a little early nowadays according to many climate scientists, but...
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"Three armed men are being sought after paintings by Cézanne, Degas, van Gogh and Monet were stolen from a private museum in Zurich.
The paintings, which were stolen yesterday, have been valued at €112m.
They are: 'Poppies near Vetheuil' by Claude Monet (1879),...
"Dr. Ing. E. Leuthold from Switzerland contacted Horizon Lanka Foundation through email last April and informed us that he is willing to provide a brand new laptop for one of our students. Horizon staff...
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"It's time to figure out how to build self-sustaining cities in the polar regions because climate change will eventually make most of Earth uninhabitable."
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"A rare Mexican plant which flowers once in its lifetime has blossomed, smashing a glasshouse roof in the process.
Scientists at Bangor University waited 28 years to see the Century plant, from which tequila can be made, bloom.
A curator, who had planted the seed as a student...
Here is an interview with Jessica Hagy, the 20-something creator of amazingly witty and thoughtful and though-provoking indexes. An advertising copywriter by day, Hagy keeps a popular blog [http://indexed.blogspot.com/] that showcases her marvelous indexes about this and...
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A modern art sculpture designed to last forever and combine with nature has arrived in Cornwall. "A 70-tonne granite sculpture of a seed has been 'planted' at the Eden Project in Cornwall.
The 13ft (4m) high work...
It began as a theme-park attraction and became an entertainment juggernaut: Pirates of the Caribbean. The third film in the series, At World's End, is getting its premiere at its place of birth: Disneyland."Crowds...
"Oh how I've missed the Clintons. I can still recall how Bill Clinton could cry on cue at funerals and how Hillary Clinton could blame a vast right-wing conspiracy for her husband being serviced by an intern that...