The original vinyl album cover for Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon (1973).
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It might be the world’s most famous album cover, but an album with a strikingly similar cover was released 30 years before The Dark Side of the Moon.
Le phallus en bois découvert sur le site de Vindolanda.
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Les cordonniers romains de l’Antiquité avaient tout le temps, pendant les longues et sombres nuits hivernales, de s’adonner à des activités annexes… plus osées.
Mondli Gungubele, former minister in the Presidency, was in charge of intelligence.
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Having an intelligence service that is not fit for purpose means the country is vulnerable to security threats from within and outside the country.
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The first minister’s ‘ordinary and relatable’ image has been key to her years in power.
The wooden phallus discovered at Vindolanda. Wooden Phallus
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There would have been plenty of time during the long, dark, Northern nights for ancient Roman shoemakers to indulge in side hustles.
Contestants on series four of Drag Race UK.
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Drag’s power is its contribution to the de-stigmatisation of LGBTQ+ people, which is needed to enhance their self-worth and wellbeing.
Burns’ former home Ellisland Farm in Dumfries-shire, which is now a heritage centre.
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The detailed ledger will help historians reconstruct the poet’s beloved farm as it was when he and his family first lived in it.
The black rat, or ship rat, was thought to have helped transmit the Black Death.
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Recent research suggests rats may not have played the critical role in keeping plague going in Europe.
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Gordon Brown’s proposals include hefty devolution and House of Lords reform but one change that could have the biggest impact is nowhere to be seen.
It’s about more than football.
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Orbán’s nationalist gesture at a recent football match raises important questions – and tensions.
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The spy watchdog needs to make its findings on complaints against the country’s intelligence agencies public as a matter of principle.
Christmas at a John Lewis store.
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Underneath the schmaltzy appeal of the 2022 John Lewis Christmas advert is a frustrating distraction from the far from picture-perfect reality for children in care.
The south wall of the temple of Hathor at Dendera. Cleopatra and her son Caesarian are depicted on the left side.
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From the trinkets of the tomb to the mummy of the queen herself, the discovery of Cleopatra’s mausoleum could rewrite our understanding of the ancient world.
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A third of people we surveyed incorrectly thought there was a £2,500 cap on energy bills.
Opportunity knocks…
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Housebreakers are no less rational than the rest of us.
A striking worker at a Fridays for Future march during COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland.
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The green movement has more to thank workers in polluting industries than you might expect.
Red onion skin cells seen through a microscope.
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Cell membranes are a basic structure common to most living organisms – but they can be hijacked.
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Debt is becoming unaffordable.
Working life.
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The information about how menopause affects workers should be more diverse.
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A cultural collaboration with deafblind people led to the development of a high-tech device to help navigate their world post-lockdown