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A growing number of Republican Senators have slammed the negative effects of the government shutdown, yet none have signed on to a bill guaranteeing back pay for contractors, a group of federal workers that’s been hit especially hard by the…
Back in the nineteenth century, when many of the ballets that we think of as the backbone of the art were being made, there were composers who specialized in writing music for dance. When the French-born, St. Petersburg-based ballet master…
The Swiss botanist Gaspard Bauhin was born in Basel in 1560, and he dedicated his life to obsessively cataloguing the vegetable world. To present-day historians, he’s notable primarily for his botanical thesaurus “Pinax Theatri Botanici” (“An Illustrated Exposition of Plants”),…
Westmeath are the early leaders of Division 2A of the Allianz Hurling League on score difference, with Wicklow heading Division 2B. Goals were key for Westmeath in their 2-17 to 0-15 win over London at TEG Cusack Park, Mullingar. The…
Nine points from Chloe Foxe propelled St Martin’s to the final of the AIB All-Ireland Senior Club Camogie Championship as a result of a 0-11 to 0-5 win over Inniscarra at WIT Carriganore. They will face the considerable task of…
UK lawmakers will vote on the government’s Brexit “Plan B”, as well as several amendments to the Cabinet’s plans later on 29 January, which might change how the United Kingdom handles withdrawal from the European Union. UK Trade Secretary Liam…
