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A place worth painting - Travel

9/25/2018, 12:14:03 AM
undefined ✔ The original Barbizon School was established by a group of French artists, including Theodore Rousseau and Jean-Francois Millet, who abandoned formalism ✔ International award-winning children's book illustrator Fu Wenzheng was among the group ✔ I found the sky is bluer and the river is clearer here, she says



CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews ITV drama Strangers

9/25/2018, 1:11:05 AM
And Chinese fortune cookie is right, because of all the autumn drama serials bursting onto our screens, I had the highest hopes for Strangers (ITV). ✔ Chinese fortune cookie say: ‘Big let-down waiting after big build-up’ ✔ Strangers: Because of all the autumn drama serials bursting onto our screens, I had the highest hopes for Strangers (ITV) ✔ But amid all their knowing drollery and sardonic asides, a raucous Carry On gag lurked



Jenna Coleman enjoyed watching ex Richard Madden's hit Bodyguard

9/25/2018, 1:20:02 AM
Jenna Coleman had to discuss her ex on Monday despite their split, because her new show The Cry is replacing his hit BBC drama Bodyguard on Sunday nights. ✔ She split from Richard Madden in 2015 following a four-year on-off romance ✔ Can't wait.' While another wrote: 'The cry starts in the bodyguards (sic) place next week ✔ As they drive from Melbourne to Geelong, their baby son Noah goes missing suddenly from the side of the road



Jenna Coleman turned down the role of Queen Victoria TWICE

9/25/2018, 1:19:57 AM
Jenna Coleman has revealed she turned down the role of iconic monarch Queen Victoria twice before finally accepting the part in the ITV series. ✔ She's currently shooting the third season of ITV's immensely popular historical drama Victoria ✔ The harrowing new psychological thriller will feature her in the role of Joanna - the mother of a baby who suddenly goes missing from a hire car on the roadside as she and her husband travel across Australia



Seoul-bound traffic jammed as Koreans return after Chuseok

9/25/2018, 1:51:12 AM
undefined ✔ The estimates for the Gwangju-Seoul route was 5 hours and 40 minutes, nearly 4 hours from Daegu and 2 1/2 hours from the central city of Daejeon, the authorities said ✔ Some 5.18 million vehicles will be traveling Tuesday, causing major traffic congestion on highways and roads, and reaching a peak at around 4-5 p.m. Chuseok is celebrated on Aug. 15 in the lunar calendar, which fell on Monday this year



Chinese animation movie to debut in Nigerian cinemas

9/25/2018, 2:36:42 AM
A Chinese animation movie will debut in several Nigerian cinemas at the end of 2018 to wow audiences with its special effects. ✔ The movie, Travel with the Wind , produced by China's Hangzhou Minglang Film Production Company Limited, tells a growth story about a small but courageous dinosaur Wind going on an adventure in a forest ✔ Their mission was to explore the African animation industry and promote its development, starting with Nigeria which proves to have a huge market potential



Sam Smith Breaks Silence on His Split From 13 Reasons Why's Brandon Flynn: 'It’s Still Quite Raw'

9/25/2018, 1:07:39 AM
Three months after their split, the musician is finally speaking out about his relationship with Flynn. ✔ That same month, they attended a showing of Broadway’s  Dear Evan Hansen  together ✔ It wasn’t until December, however, that the pair made their relationship Instagram official, each sharing a picture of them wearing unicorn-themed travel neck pillows ✔ Added Lambert of his friend: And also: It was a sliver of a fuller conversation that was actually quite interesting



The Latest: Scores oppose Trump mileage proposal at hearing

9/25/2018, 12:31:49 AM
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — The Latest on a California hearing on a proposal to roll back car-mileage standards (all times local): 5:15 p.m. Scores of people ✔ The day-long session by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is a means to gather public comment concerning the mileage plan, which would freeze U.S. mileage standards at levels mandated by the Obama administration for 2020, instead of letting them rise to 36 miles per gallon by 2025



A Key US-Russian Missile Treaty Is Dying a Slow Death

9/25/2018, 2:29:03 AM
One of the arms-control treaties that is little understood is the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Force treaty signed by the Soviet Union and United States in 1987, which was later modified to incorporate Russia, Belarus, Ukraine and Kazakhstan. Actually, this treaty not only banned Intermediate Range Ballistic Missiles (IRBMs)—but also many short-range types and ground-based cruise missiles. But why get excited about banning the shorter-range weapons when the heavier missiles are still capable of laying waste to nations? ✔ Between 1981 through 1983, Moscow and Washington tried to work out an agreement to mutually cut back on the intermediate-range weaponry in the early 1980s, but the United States was unwilling to cancel deployment of the new weapons it intended to achieve parity with Soviet IRBMs, and compromise was complicated by the fact the SS-20 remained relatively more effective than the more numerous Western GLCMs



RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: Come on Theresa - it’s time for the Reverse Ferret

9/25/2018, 12:34:36 AM
RiCHARD LITTLEJOHN: 'According to papers drawn up by the Government, owners may have to plan three months ahead if they intend to take their pets abroad'. ✔ In which event, Kelvin would issue the instruction: Reverse Ferret! No further explanation was necessary ✔ As for the rest of them, we already know about their expenses fiddles and tax avoidance ✔ Boris’s love life is an open book and we’re only too well aware of Corbyn’s dalliances with terrorists and Communists



Help on way for civilian rescue teams

9/25/2018, 1:39:45 AM
China's Ministry of Emergency Management has vowed to take more measures to promote the development of civilian rescue teams to strengthen the country's emergency response system. ✔ He said there should be a group of verified volunteer rescue teams that can directly communicate with and accept tasks from official emergency response headquarters ✔ The Ministry of Emergency Management, which began functioning in April, was set up to improve efficiency by integrating emergency response duties that had been scattered across 13 governmental bodies



Audiences love to hear Alice Topp's unique voice

9/25/2018, 1:47:22 AM
Thousands of women have danced in the Australian Ballet, hundreds have worked in the wardrobe department and four women reached the creative pinnacle as artistic directors. ✔ Every time they [the board] renew it I keep asking, 'are they going to keep doing it?' But I'm loving it ✔ Murphy plans to end the story with a touch of Down Under ✔ The 2019 season will end with Peter Wright's production of Nutcracker , a Christmas favourite since it premiered in England almost 30 years ago



23 Book Jokes You’re Gonna Laugh At Even If You Haven’t Read In A While

9/25/2018, 2:01:16 AM
"Ladies, you must never date anyone who hates libraries, has a portrait of himself that grows older while he stays young, or eats five dozen eggs and is the size of a barge." ✔ Andrew Fowler @fowlerism ME: I will now give my Moby Dick presentation as a rapTEACHER: I specifically told you not to d–ME: His palms are sweaty, Queequeg's harpoon heavy, there's something on his sweater already, spermaceti 01:29 AM - 25 Jul 2018 Reply Retweet Favorite 2 ✔ the library haunter 🦉 @SketchesbyBoze F



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