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Sir Barnes Neville Wallis: The Visionary Scientist Who Played a Key Role in World War 2 — History is Now Magazine, Podcasts, Blog and Books | Modern International and American history

Barnes Neville Wallis. Early life and education Wallis’s early life provided the foundation for his eventual career in engineering. His father, Charles Wallis, was a doctor, but young Barnes developed an early fascination with mechanical objects, much to his father’s frustration. After attending Christ’s Hospital school in Sussex, where he displayed a knack for mathematics […]

How Zach Top Turned ‘I Never Lie’ Into His First Hot 100 Hit: ‘This Song Goes In the Face of What’s Out There Right Now’

By the time surging newcomer Zach Top released his debut country album, Cold Beer & Country Music, in April, the 27-year-old singer-songwriter was already seeing a groundswell of support from fans and his fellow artists. With his unabashed devotion to traditional country sounds on songs like “Bad Luck” and “There’s The Sun,” matched with his […]

What are the Old Hill Figures Dotted Around Britain? — History is Now Magazine, Podcasts, Blog and Books | Modern International and American history

The Uffington White Horse. Source: World Wind, available here. The description of this activity has been termed “leucippotomy” for the carving of horses and “gigantotomy” for giants (there are currently four of this kind in Britain). Whether these adopted terms are intended to be applied seriously is debatable since they do not appear in the […]

Family Separations in U.S. Immigration History: A New Issue, or as American as Baseball and Apple Pie? — History is Now Magazine, Podcasts, Blog and Books | Modern International and American history

A teacher, Mary R. Hyde, and students at the Carlisle Indian Training School. Source: here and here. At least two years before 2016, large numbers of Central American families, nearly all from the Northern Triangle countries of Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador began to arrive in walking caravans at the Texas Border.  Well before Donald […]

Underground Brisbane magazine The Cane Toad Times hops back into print

“Seems the Doomsday Clock has never been closer to midnight, what with pandemics, overpopulation, knife crime, MAGA, Putin, rising sea levels, one-in-a-hundred-year weather events occurring every year, xenophobia, the LNP, cyber criminals, real criminals, Lego Masters, Truth Social, MAFS, Skynet, Sky News, androids and a hundred other guns pointing at the human race’s odd-shaped head,” […]

Bong Go receives Public Servant Leaders Award from Rising Tigers Magazine

Senator Christopher “Bong” Go received the Public Servant Leaders Award at the Third Rising Tigers Charity Ball held on 30 October at Shangri-La Hotel in Makati, honoring his compassionate dedication to public service. Go, the sole senator recognized, expressed gratitude, recalling the advice of former President Rodrigo Duterte in his remarks: “Do what is right.” […]