Holiday ideas: a luxury Cornish break, al-fresco film screenings and deals of the week

Moon Shadow is not your typical Cornish holiday cottage. With its moody lighting, dark granite walls, super-kingsize bed and decadent bathroom, it manages to squeeze all the style and swagger of a sexy boutique hotel into a tiny fisherman's house – and it is just a stone's throw from one of Cornwall's finest and...

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Veteran gets Bronze Star after enduring long wait

ASHVILLE - It took more than 40 years but Samuel McConnell finally got his Bronze Star Medal. McConnell, 63, Ashville, who served as a sergeant in the U.S.

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A missing gunner plane and an enduring mystery

A six-hour Vietnam combat mission in 1965 tested the limits of forensic science, and the faith and patience of grieving sons, daughters, wives and parents of six lost airmen.

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Star Student: Kylie Warner, Walsh Jesuit

Walsh Jesuit GPA: 4.341; Rank: (School does not rank.) College: Columbia University In my best moments, I would like to think I resemble Elizabeth Bennet, the gloriously spirited heroine of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. In reality, I would be lucky to resemble any of Austen’s female protagonists, for they are...

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Rioting, violence and shame – memories of Ireland v England in 1995

Neil Fraser watched the England fans making Nazi salutes, leering, jeering and sneering. He heard the boos and the goading battle cries: "No Surrender to the IRA", "Judas! Judas!" And then, when David Kelly – one of eight England-born players in the Republic of Ireland team that night – put his side 1-0 up, and the...

guardian.co.uk (7 hours ago)

What The Bulls Must Believe

Via Sean Corrigan of Diapason Commodities' Tangible Ideas, Even if the monetary fuel for this whirl of self-reinforcement is not lacking, the market still needs a narrative around which it can cluster psychologically. It needs a canon of shared myth about which the bard can weave a reassuringly familiar refrain so...

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A long-ago war, a missing plane and an enduring mystery

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A long-ago war, a missing plane an enduring mystery

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A long-ago war, a missing plane and an enduring mystery

Maj. Derrell Jeffords bounced his roaring Spooky 21 down and off the runway at Da Nang Air Base in Vietnam. It was just before 7:30 a.m., on Christmas Eve 1965. The big camouflaged belly of his twin-prop AC-47 was easily visible against a blue sky as he banked west.The cargo plane-turned-gunship was on its way to...

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A long-ago war, a missing plane and an enduring mystery

Maj. Derrell Jeffords bounced his roaring Spooky 21 down and off the runway at Da Nang Air Base in Vietnam. It was just before 7:30 a.m., on Christmas Eve 1965. The big camouflaged belly of his twin-prop AC-47 was easily visible against a blue sky as he banked west.The cargo plane-turned-gunship was on its way to...

miamiherald.com (20 hours ago)

‘Oklahomans Don’t Stop Fighting’

Several Moore, Okla., residents, whose lives were somehow connected by Monday’s tornado and its aftermath, shared their experiences of enduring the storm.    

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Duane Wells: Remembering Normandy: Let Us Never Forget

For years I honestly didn't understand the difference between Memorial Day and Veteran's Day. The fact that the former honors the brave men and women who have died during military service, while the latter recognizes all veterans of the armed forces, living or dead, was a distinction that had always been quite lost...

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Molinari flourishes while Donald and McIlroy falter

By Tony Jimenez VIRGINIA WATER, England (Reuters) - Francesco Molinari flourished while several of his European Ryder Cup team mates fell flat on their faces as the Italian grabbed the lead in the PGA Championship second round on Friday. Luke Donald, the 2011 and 2012 winner, Rory McIlroy, Ian Poulter and Graeme...

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Golf-Molinari flourishes while Donald and McIlroy falter

By Tony Jimenez VIRGINIA WATER, England, May 24 (Reuters) - Francesco Molinari flourished while several of his European Ryder Cup team mates fell flat on their faces as the Italian grabbed the lead in the PGA Championship second round on Friday. Luke Donald, the 2011 and 2012 winner, Rory McIlroy, Ian Poulter and...

yahoo.com (1 day ago)

How's the weather look for Memorial Day weekend?

After enduring two weekends of gloomy weather, the skies are looking bright and sunny for Memorial Day weekend.

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‘Threads of Feeling’: Mothers’ tokens of love in 1700s Britain

The blockbuster fashion exhibition of summer, the Met’s underwhelming “PUNK: Chaos to Couture,” tries to capture the subversive spirit of youths in 1970s London and their enduring influence on the closets of magazine editors. But another exhibition of British history and influence is making its way to Colonial...

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A Good Stock Is 'Deere' Today

NEW YORK (F.A.S.T. Graphs) -- Ever since blacksmith John Deere invented the first commercially successful steel plow in 1837, Deere has helped farmers feed America. Today, true to its legacy, Deere continues to help farmers feed people, but now does it throughout the world. In addition to the U.S. and Canada, Deere...

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Berlusconi looms large in Rome mayor election

Silvio Berlusconi's figure looms large over Rome's mayoral elections this weekend even though the former premier isn't among the 19 candidates running. The vote is very much a test of Berlusconi's enduring political influence and voter sentiment over the uneasy national government made up of his center-right forces...

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Athletics' Lowrie glad to see the Astros

Jed Lowrie will do everything possible to be in the lineup when the Oakland Athletics return to Houston for a three-game series beginning Friday night. Despite enduring a 107-loss season with the Astros last year, the Athletics' shortstop maintained playing there will always be significant to him.

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Memorial Day flag making and flag raising activities for the whole family

Nothing signifies the meaning of Memorial Day more than the U.S. flag, an enduring symbol of the United States of American, its citizens, and the freedom and democracy it represents.. Referred to in a variety of ways, the...

examiner.com (2 days ago)

Distraught mom becomes face of Oklahoma storm

Mother and daughter were photographed after being reunited when the girl was pulled from the rubble of Plaza Towers Elementary School. The photo has become an enduring image from the storm.MOORE, Okla. - A massive tornado was carving its way through town. There was no time to hesitate. LaTisha Garcia had to get to...

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Lindsey Mead: The Engagements by J. Courtney Sullivan

The Engagements opens in 1947, late at night, as Frances, an advertising copywriter, works on the DeBeers account. A master procrastinator, she's left coming up with a new, catchy slogan until the last minute. Right before she goes to sleep, she comes up with "a diamond is forever." The rest of The Engagements...

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Memorial Day weekend forecast looking sunny

After enduring two weekends of gloomy weather, the skies are looking bright and sunny for Memorial Day weekend.

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Analysis - Barack Obama: learn to live with terror

Barack Obama didn't land on an aircraft carrier and declare "mission accomplished", but in its own way his speech on the future conduct of the War on Terror was just as significant as George W Bush's premature declaration of victory in 2003 - and, Mr Obama will hope, far more enduring.    

telegraph.co.uk (2 days ago)

A letter to Moore, Oklahoma | Eric Gregg

To the citizens of Moore, Oklahoma: You are in our thoughts and prayers. Seeing the photos of your state reminds me all too much of the tornados that struck my own home of Harrisburg, Illinois, last year. After hiding while the winds tore through everything we owned, we faced the flattened landscape that was once...

guardian.co.uk (2 days ago)

Jordana Brewster refuels career with return to ‘Fast & Furious 6’

One of the most enduring - and definitely one of the most alluring - stars of the testosterone-fueled, hugely successful “Fast & Furious” film series has ramped up excitement within its fan base.    

nydailynews.com (2 days ago)

The Volkswagen camper van: A bug’s life

Off to do the hippy-hippy shake The VW Camper Van: A Biography. By Mike Harding. Aurum Press; 256 pages; £14.99. To be published in America in August; $24.95. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.ukWHEN a biographer of the Volkswagen camper van begins with the lyrics from a Fairport Convention song about the old bus-“In...

economist.com (2 days ago)

Photographer Wayne F Miller - picture of the day

A photographic highlight selected by the picture desk. Photographer Wayne F Miller, who produced some of the most enduring combat images from World War II and created an excellent series of images chronicling the lives of black Americans in Chicago, died yesterday at age 94. He became a member of Magnum Photos in...

guardian.co.uk (2 days ago)

Laurence Tureaud's Enduring Brand

This week the actor Laurence Tureaud turned 61.

forbes.com (2 days ago)

Nixon Library Reunion To Honor Vietnam POWs

YORBA LINDA, Calif. -- U.S. Navy Lt. Mike McGrath was just 27 years old, with a wife and two toddler sons in the U.S., when he was shot down and taken prisoner on his 179th bombing mission during the Vietnam War. McGrath spent almost six years in North Vietnamese prisons, enduring torture and beatings before he was...

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