Storm Large

This is some range.

Rock singer.

Substitute singer with Pink Martini

Captain Noel Chavasse VC & Bar

During the four long and traumatic years of the Great War, only one individual was awarded the Victoria Cross (VC) and Bar – the equivalent of two VCs. The recipient of this exceptional double honour was not even a frontline soldier: Captain Noel Chavasse, a bishop’s son, was a medical officer...

The 'Columbian Exchange': How Discovering the Americas Transformed the World

Columbus' arrival in the Americas sparked the globalization of animals, plants and microbes. A recent book takes a closer look at how items from the New World, such as potatoes, guano and rubber, quickly and radically transformed the rest of the planet.

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Nadezhda Popova

Nadezhda Popova, who has died aged 91, was a member of an elite corps of Soviet women — known as the “Night Witches” — who fought as bomber pilots in the air war against Germany, and the only one to win three Orders of the Patriotic War for bravery.

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Giallo Fluo

No photograph can capture just how retina dazzling the Vini Fantini - Selle Italia Giallo Fluo really is.

White shorts weather

Finally. Although, as you can see, it still isn't particularly warm given that it's mid-May.

Bluebells

Leonid Kharitonov & The Red Army Choir - The Cliff

One of Kharitonov's first solo performances, at age 32 after twelve years in the choir of the Ensemble, was a concert at the Kremlin Palace of Congresses attended by top government officials. As a chorister he was aware of the primary function of the bass part. Whether the part actually does...

Paulie Walnuts is confused

Tony: Be careful with this guy. He was in the ministry of the interior. Killed 16 Chechnyans. (hangs up)
Christopher: What'd he say?
Paulie: Guy's a fuckin' interior decorator. Killed 16 Czechoslovakians.
Christopher: Interior decorator? His apartment looked like shit!

Bradley Wiggins parks his bike