Book excerpt: ‘Through Fiery Trials’ by David Weber Posted by Savanna, Assistant Editor on January 16, 2019 Science fiction icon David Weber has been having a very busy few months—a new Honor Harrington novel was released in the fall, and Through Fiery Trials, the tenth installment in his extremely popular Safehold series just hit shelves
Month: December 2019
READING, UK & MALTA, September 02, 2019 – DataCore Software is sponsoring the LifeCycle Challenge in its 21st anniversary year, raising much needed funds to assist renal patients to have a significantly improved quality of life. Their main fundraising event, the Nescafé 3in1 LifeCycle Challenge, this year sees 27 cyclists racing 2,000km across Vietnam, Laos
Gio Ponti’s Co-Cathedral of Taranto, 1964/70 40 years after his passing, in September 1979, star-architect Giovanni Ponti makes headlines once again. The latest Amare l’Architettura exhibition at Rome’s Maxxi Museum, is a gift to the public. Translating to the love of architecture, the exhibition features Ponti’s archived material and models, detailing the designs of his
A group of Black Friday online shopping purchases photographed in delivery boxes filled with polystyrene packing pellets, taken on September 13, 2019. Future Publishing | Future | Getty Images Black Friday shoppers spent $7.4 billion online, the second largest Internet shopping day ever, according to data compiled by Adobe Analytics. The $7.4 billion marked the
Society lotteries raised a record £332.2m for good causes last year, official figures show. Data published by the Gambling Commission yesterday shows the amount raised by society lotteries rose by £32.9m in the 12 months to the end of March this year. A spokeswoman for The Lotteries Council, a membership body for charities that run
AMMAN (November 6, 2019) – As temperatures plummet across the Middle East, CARE warns that tens of thousands of people, including women and children, in north-east Syria are at risk of facing harsh weather conditions without needed protection. Over 100,000 people are still displaced, out of whom more than 15,000 are living in collective shelters,