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The Women Artists Commemorated on an NYC Sidewalk

The signatures of Rosa Bonheur, Mary Cassatt, and six other historical women artists are engraved on a small stretch of sidewalk on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Source: The Women Artists Commemorated on an NYC Sidewalk

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Costing the Earth – The Sound of Nature – BBC Sounds

Waves crashing on the shore, footsteps crunching on the forest floor. Stress levels plummet when we immerse ourselves in nature. Nick Luscombe meets the Japanese scientists working to bring the healing power of nature into the heart of the city. Nature’s secret, they believe, isn’t the sound you can hear, it’s the high frequencies you

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In A Crowd Of Stilt Walkers, This Queen Reigns Supreme | Essence

Carnival queen Shynel Brizan shares the triumphs and challenges of her 14-year journey in the art form of one of Trinidad and Tobago’s oldest masquerades —the moko jumbie. Source: In A Crowd Of Stilt Walkers, This Queen Reigns Supreme | Essence

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Philippe Petit, Man on Wire, tackles the National Building Museum at 73 – The Washington Post

The high-wire artist who traversed the National Building Museum Thursday, became a legend for walking between the World Trade Center Twin Towers in 1974. Source: Philippe Petit, Man on Wire, tackles the National Building Museum at 73 – The Washington Post

Stirchley launches tourist walking tours after being named one of the best places to live in Britain – Birmingham Live

The Sunday Times included Stirchley in its 2021 best places to live – and now the suburb is capitalising on the accolade with a series of walking tours for locals, tourists and would-be residents

Source: Stirchley launches tourist walking tours after being named one of the best places to live in Britain – Birmingham Live

Submitted by: Babak Fakhamzadeh

lonning, lonnin

Cumbrian dialect term for ‘lane’ – but a quite specific lane. Lonnings are usually about half a mile long, low level and often with a farm at the end. Many have specific names known only to the local villagers. Hence, Bluebottle Lonning, Lovers Lonning, Fat Lonning, Thin Lonning, Squeezy Gut Lonning or Dynamite Lonning. In the north-east the spelling is lonnin and seems to refer more to an alley than a country lane. The Scottish equivalent is ‘loan’.

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