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80 Shakespeare Facts: The Great English Playwright

English writer Ben Jonson once described Shakespeare as being “for all time” as his works speak to different kinds of people. Truly a fitting description for a man who left such a profound mark in history. Even centuries after his death, people are still falling in love with the characters in his plays. He explored the human experience with so much depth and elegance. And his works leave a long and lasting impression on anyone who reads it or sees it.

Capital expands its horizons in time for Olympic deadline

Anything goes for luxury housing today in Beijing. Since the first high-end project went online in 2000 in response to an influx of foreign investors and out-of-town Chinese business people, projects have mushroomed across the city, from farm country in the southeast to Fragrant Hill Park in the northwest. 'Beijing keeps moving forward, so the whole world is looking at Beijing,' said Toni Ma, real estate editor of That's Beijing magazine.

Hidden Thailand explored on a kayaking trip up countrys Andaman coast, with untamed nature and un

The slow pace allowed me to completely absorb the nuanced beauty of the Andaman coast and its offshore islands, spend quality time with locals and discover a number of outstanding beaches, islets, villages and hotels I otherwise would never have seen. I come across the first of these gems on my second day at sea after pausing for a break at an archipelago of two islets in the Mu Ko Phetra National Park.

In Rainbows Radiohead (CD) | South China Morning Post

Radiohead made a ruckus in the music industry late last year when the band announced fans could download low-resolution versions of tracks from their new album In Rainbows from their website and pay whatever they liked, with 'free' as an option. In Rainbows is Radiohead's seventh album but the band's first independent record (they are currently not signed to any record company). The album is mostly made up of moody, mellow acoustic ballads, with a couple of up-tempo guitar tracks.

Zhang Jingjing | South China Morning Post

Zhang Jingjing is an environmental lawyer, a lecturer in law at the University of Maryland School of Law, and founder of the Centre for Transnational Environmental Accountability. She has been dubbed “China’s Erin Brockovitch” for winning several milestone environmental litigation cases in the Chinese courts. She works on transnational environmental and climate lawsuits in China’s Belt and Road Initiative partner countries, testing legal avenues to hold Chinese overseas companies accountable and ensure their compliance with environmental laws and international human rights norms.

Insults fly in last debate before French elections between Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron

Le Pen attacked her rival in the opening minutes of the only face-to-face debate before Sunday’s run-off vote, saying he was “the darling of the system”. Macron retorted that Le Pen, the 48-year-old scion of the National Front (FN) party, was “the heir of a system which has prospered from the fury of the French people for decades”, adding: “You play with fear.” Opinion polls show Macron scoring 59 per cent to 41 per cent for Le Pen in Sunday’s vote, but previous debates during the rollercoaster French campaign have quickly shifted public opinion.

Polishing Apple not Steve's dream job

Ask Apple Computer co-founder Steve Jobs whether he plans to drop the 'interim' prefix to his chief executive title soon, and he is likely to chuckle and whip out his company business card. The title reads iCEO, a sly nod to the company's hugely successful iMac computers and an indication Mr Jobs has no plans to dig in his heels at Apple for the long run. Shareholders who believe he would not abandon the chief's chair for fears of plunging stock prices should keep in mind one thing - he owns only one symbolic share in the company.

Resultados Progol 2224: premios y quiniela ganadora del fin de semana

Por segunda semana consecutiva, la quiniela Progol tuvo ganador con 14 aciertos en su edición 2224, al premiar ni más ni menos que con cinco millones de pesos a este concursante. En esta oportunidad, un total de 11,564 participantes recibirán determinada cantidad de dinero por sus conocimientos futbolísticos. En revancha, 653 afortunados consiguieron los 7 aciertos. Progol 2224: partidosLos 14 partidos fueron distribuidos de la siguiente manera: cinco de la Liga MX, uno de LaLiga, uno de la Premier League, uno de la Bundesliga, uno de la Ligue 1, uno de la Eredivisie, dos de la MLS, uno del futbol ruso y uno del futbol brasileño.

RGA takes a healthy chance with whole-life coverage

The company, founded in 1973 and based in the United States, holds approximately US$1.8trillion in life insurance policies and has assets of US$16.6 billion. RGA has offices in 16 countries and has had a presence in Hong Kong for 11 years. Protection-oriented products that replaced income upon death or other events had not been as popular in Asia as they were in the west, but Mr Cheng expected that to change with the maturing of the region's insurance market.

SEP anuncia suspensin de clases en estos estados del pas desde el jueves 1 de febrero 2024

Los meses de febrero y de marzo 2024 tendrán varios días de descanso, principalmente para los niños estudiantes de educación básica, en nuestro país. Entre días feriados, Consejos Técnicos Escolares, y vacaciones de Semana Santa, los padres de familia tendrán que estar listos con actividades que les mantengan ocupados. Fines de semana largos para alumnos de educación básicaLa Secretaría de Educación Pública, SEP, en sus diferentes redes sociales y páginas, compartió el calendario del año escolar en curso, y en él se puede apreciar que, para alumnos de preescolar, primaria y de secundaria, dos fines de semana largos tendrán lugar en el mes de febrero 2024.