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Breakout stocks to buy or sell: Sumeet Bagadia recommends five shares to buy today — 23 December 2024
1 week, 5 days ago

Breakout stocks to buy or sell: Sumeet Bagadia recommends five shares to buy today — 23 December 2024

Live Mint  

Breakout stocks to buy or sell: Following the hawkish US Fed outlook on the interest rate cut and FIIs' selling, the Indian stock market snapped its four-week winning streak. Sumeet Bagadia's breakout stock recommendations Sumeet Bagadia, Executive Director at Choice Broking, believes that overall Indian stock market bias has weakened as the Nifty 50 index has slipped below 200-DEMA support …

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The Times’ top 25 high school basketball rankings
1 month, 1 week ago

The Times’ top 25 high school basketball rankings

LA Times  

The father-son duo of Gilbert Arenas and Alijah Arenas. Chatsworth moves into The Times’ top 25 rankings. A look at The Times’ top 25 boys basketball rankings for the Southland after Week 1. ; School ; Comment; last week 1.; ST. JOHN BOSCO ; 14 points and 16 rebounds in debut for Christian Collins; 1 2.; HARVARD-WESTLAKE ; Big men …

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Indian Shooting Team Dominates Junior World Championship, Secures Gold in Men's 50m Pistol Event
2 months, 4 weeks ago

Indian Shooting Team Dominates Junior World Championship, Secures Gold in Men's 50m Pistol Event

The Hindu  

Indian shooters dominated the Junior World Shooting Championship, securing gold in the men's 50m pistol event. The trio of Deepak Dalal, Kamaljeet, and Raj Chandra emerged victorious, securing a combined 1616 points, surpassing Azerbaijan by a single point. India's junior shooters secured a remarkable 24 medals, including 13 gold, showcasing their prowess on the international stage.

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How Hiroyuki Sanada plays his own hero in ‘Shōgun’
7 months, 1 week ago

How Hiroyuki Sanada plays his own hero in ‘Shōgun’

LA Times  

Hiroyuki Sanada has lived a thousand lives in show business: child performer, action star, Shakespearean Fool, Hollywood actor. Sanada, best known to American audiences through such movies as “The Last Samurai”, “Sunshine” and “Bullet Train”, infuses Toranaga with a steely stillness, patient but dynamic. He’s still a hero in Japan, and I hope that playing him and introducing what he …

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趣味百科：谁发明了咖啡？
8 months ago

趣味百科：谁发明了咖啡？

China Daily  

很多现代人每天都要靠咖啡来“续命”，喝了咖啡才能神清气爽，正常开启一天的工作模式。那么是谁发明了这么神奇又美味的提神饮料呢？ Photo/Pexels Each day, millions of people brew a cup of coffee in the morning to help get their day started. 据称，卡尔迪观察到他的山羊在吃了附近咖啡树上的红色浆果后行为异常。他自己尝了一些，很快也变得和他的羊群一样兴奋。然后他带了一些到修道院，那里的人们在长时间祈祷期间发现它们的提神效果，并为此感到担忧。他们认为咖啡一定是魔鬼的作品。 The religious leaders there threw the tree’s beans onto a fire to destroy them—but the pleasing aroma that resulted convinced them to give coffee a second chance. 当地的宗教领袖将这棵树的豆子扔到火上以销毁它们，但是烤咖啡豆散发出的令人愉悦的香气让他们决定再给咖啡一次机会。和泡茶一样，他们把烤过的咖啡豆放入热水中，咖啡饮料就这样诞生了。 Despite the legend, it’s thought that the practice of chewing …

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Stratford honors literary greats Shakespeare, Tang Xianzu
8 months, 1 week ago

Stratford honors literary greats Shakespeare, Tang Xianzu

China Daily  

An actor dressed as William Shakespeare holds up the quill and leads a parade celebrating the 460th anniversary of his birth in his hometown of Stratford-upon-Avon, England on Saturday. The literary heritages of England's William Shakespeare and China's Tang Xianzu were celebrated over the weekend at an event held in Shakespeare's hometown of Stratford-upon-Avon, promoting cultural exchanges between China and …

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Classical guitar, Chinese style
2 years ago

Classical guitar, Chinese style

China Daily  

Yang Xuefei, the UK-based classical guitarist known as the first internationally recognized Chinese guitarist on the world stage, has released her latest album, Magna Carta. On May 27, Yang released her new album of Brunning's compositions for guitar, including Concerto Magna Carta. Also featured on Yang's new album is the world-premiere recording of Brunning's Five Romances, arranged for guitar and …

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Artemisia Gentileschi’s 1616 nude to be digitally unveiled
2 years, 1 month ago

Artemisia Gentileschi’s 1616 nude to be digitally unveiled

Associated Press  

FLORENCE, Italy — Art restorers in the Italian city of Florence have begun a six-month project to clean and virtually “unveil” a long-censored nude painting by Artemisia Gentileschi, one of the most prominent women in the history of Italian art. Swirling veils and drapery were added to the “Allegory of Inclination” some 70 years after Gentileschi painted the life-size female …

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Artemisia Gentileschi's 1616 nude to be digitally unveiled
2 years, 1 month ago

Artemisia Gentileschi's 1616 nude to be digitally unveiled

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Art restorers in the Italian …

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为什么把懦夫叫作chicken？
2 years, 4 months ago

为什么把懦夫叫作chicken？

China Daily  

为什么英语中把懦弱胆小的人称作chicken？鸡是怎么和胆小联系到一起的？你也许不知道，这事和大名鼎鼎的莎翁也有关系。 Photo/Pexels Anyone who refuses a double-dog dare is liable to be labeled a chicken. How dogs found their way into dare culture remains a bit of a mystery—but the reason cowards are called “chickens” is slightly clearer. One play from around 1450 described a coward as a “henne-harte,” and poet John Skelton likened some spineless courtiers to “hen-hearted cuckolds” …

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Remembering William Shakespeare with a few of his most famous quotes
2 years, 8 months ago

Remembering William Shakespeare with a few of his most famous quotes

India Today  

Born on April 23, 1564, William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon and grew to become a master playwright during the Elizabeth and Jacobean ages of British theatre. Shakespeare's career took off in London and his first printed works were two long poems -- 'Venus and Adonis' and 'The Rape of Lucrece'. Shakespeare's most famous tragedies such as 'King Lear' and …

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Conserving the caracal, one of India’s rarest wild cats
3 years, 10 months ago

Conserving the caracal, one of India’s rarest wild cats

Live Mint  

On a cloudy afternoon in April 2009, when wildlife biologist Dharmendra Khandal was winding his way out of the Ranthambore Tiger Reserve, he suddenly spotted a young family of caracals—a rare small wild cat—walking on the mud track. “One doesn’t know what is the status of the caracal.” The apathy towards arid landscapes is the primary threat to the caracal’s …

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Kunqu Opera still flourishing despite fears for future
4 years, 4 months ago

Kunqu Opera still flourishing despite fears for future

China Daily  

In the campus version of The Peony Pavilion, all the characters are performed by students who have learned the opera for months. Zhang, from Anhui province, first became acquainted with Kunqu Opera four years ago when she was a first-year student at the university and joined its Kunqu Club. She also enrolled in a course called Appreciation of Classic Kunqu …

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The sentence of the Inquisition on Galileo
4 years, 9 months ago

The sentence of the Inquisition on Galileo

Wired  

*Deserves to be a perennial hit for fans of the legal process. "We, the undersigned, by the Grace of God, Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church, Inquisitors General throughout the whole Christian Republic, Special Deputies of the Holy Apostolical Chair against heretical depravity, "Whereas you, Galileo, son of the late Vincenzo Galilei of Florence, aged seventy years, were denounced in …

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Does poetry matter? L.A.’s former poet-in-chief Luis J. Rodriguez explains why it’s life changing
4 years, 10 months ago

Does poetry matter? L.A.’s former poet-in-chief Luis J. Rodriguez explains why it’s life changing

LA Times  

Luis J. Rodriguez is former L.A. poet laureate and author of “From Our Land to Our Land.” The Los Angeles Times Book Club is reading “From Our Land to Our Land” by Luis J. Rodriguez. What?,” adapted from his new collection,”From Land to Our Land,” about his experience as Los Angeles’ poet laureate from 2014-16. Ben Jonson became England’s first …

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