This week's @TheTLS, featuring Claire Lowdon on Barbara Pym; @simonjenkins4 on British institutions; @RoryStewartUK on modern Machiavels; @LaurenElkin on the Impasse Ronsin; @lucyamcdonald on microaggressions – and more pic.twitter.com/gUPiOK1ghI
— George Berridge (@George_Berridge) August 18, 2021
Front Covers: Country Life UK Magazine – Aug 18
Front Page Views: Wall Street Journal – Aug 18
Morning News: Refugees Flee Afghanistan To EU, New Zealand Lockdown
We look to Brussels to hear how the EU plans to approach an Afghan migration crisis, and discuss New Zealand’s latest lockdown. Plus: a review of the morning papers and the headlines from the Balkans.
Walking Tours: Reims – Northeastern France
Reims is a city in northeastern France’s Grand Est region. It’s the unofficial capital of the Champagne wine-growing region, and many of the champagne houses headquartered there offer tastings and cellar tours. For more than 1,000 years, French kings were crowned at its Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Reims. This grand cathedral is known for its stained-glass windows and Gothic carved portals, including the Smiling Angel.
Front Covers: Harper’s Magazine – September 2021
California Drought: Lake Oroville’s Stunning Water Loss In Photos (2014 – 2021)
Getty Images photojournalist Justin Sullivan has been following California’s second-largest reservoir’s declining water levels since 2014. Seeing first-hand the climate’s impact through his lens, he’s shocked at how fast the water is gone in one of California’s most important water sources.
Harvard Study: Vitamin D Lowers The Risk Of Young-Onset Colorectal Cancer
Aerial Views: Pittsburgh – Western Pennsylvania (4K)
Pittsburgh is a city in western Pennsylvania at the junction of 3 rivers. Its Gilded Age sites, including the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, the Carnegie Museum of Art and the Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens, speak to its history as an early-20th-century industrial capital. In the North Shore neighborhood are the modern Andy Warhol Museum, Heinz Field football stadium and PNC Park baseball stadium.
Views: Driving An Audi Formula E FE07 Race Car Through Berlin (Video)
The Audi e-tron FE07 is the thoroughbred fully electric race car from the brand with the four rings, part of the third season with the second generation of Formula E race cars. It carried Audi factory drivers Lucas di Grassi and René Rast in the seventh Formula E season, Audi’s farewell season.
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