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Nicolas Michaux with Harvesters . Single released this year, to be featured on the upcoming album Amour Colère . Belgian singer/songw...

Thoroughly underrated British landscape artist whose works have a whiff of Edward Hopper in them. Apart from landscapes, favorite subjects w...

Space history was written last week when OSIRIS-REx, third planetary scout in the New Frontiers programme (after Juno exploring Jupiter and ...

John Atkinson Grimshaw (6 September 1836 – 13 October 1893) was an English Victorian-era romanticist indebted to some extent to the Pre-Raf...

Kate Bush with Cloudbusting . Album Hounds of Love (1985). The video, by Terry Gilliam no less and featuring Donald Sutherland, was ...

Via Euronews: "A teacher was beheaded on a street near Paris on Friday afternoon after hosting a class discussion with secondary sc...

Champigny-sur-Marne, a southern suburb of Paris, witnessed an attack by 40 "individuals" on its police precinct last night. ...

Queen with Radio Ga Ga . Album The Works (1984). Like it or not, it's an iconic song and an iconic video. And one day I really ...

A statement by the unelected EU "President" Ursula von der Leyen, a couple of days ago: Read and shiver: "Migration...

Via HLN , today: "Omstreeks 21.20 uur zaterdagavond kreeg de Brusselse politie oproepen dat jongeren de ruiten van een kinderkri...

Sir Alfred James Munnings, KCVO PRA RI (8 October 1878 – 17 July 1959) was one of England's finest painters of horses. A member of the N...

A tweet by Frank Verstraete , Physics Professor at the University of Ghent, Belgium, and specializing in the application of quantum entangle...

I won't even elaborate on the situation in my own country, but here's a small sample of the evil fruits of multiculturalism in The N...

Robert Plant with Big Log . From the album The Principle of Moments (1983). After the disbandment of Led Zeppelin in 1980 Plant brie...

George Whittaker with I don't believe in "If" anymore . Released as a single in 1970. I wonder if this is perhaps a jab a...

July 10, 1940, marks the start of the Battle of Britain. After having swept before them the combined armies of Britain, France, Belgium an...

Stars with a supergiant luminosity are called Red Supergiants (RSGs). They have an enormous luminosity class (Yerkes class I) of either spec...

You can't make this stuff up: From The Herald , Scotland: "THE FAILURE of the Scottish Government to meet its own climate...

T. Rex with Cosmic Dancer . Album Electric Warrior (1971). Hat tip 18-year old Outlawdaughter. So proud she's listening to this k...

Brussels, today, June 7. Black mobs serenely mourning the death of George Floyd: Onze politie krijgt meer slagen van dit gespuis dan eten...