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History:

Passchendaele's untold army of women nurses - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-40661568

Passchendaele: The death of Jimmy Morgan and his mouth organ - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-40739915

Music Industry:

Julia Michaels: 'Dare to suck' - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-40704643

Miscellaneous:

In debt with cancer: Is your bank listening? - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-40751939 From 2017

MND Lucy: 'I hope I don't lose my weird-ass laugh' - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-40721754

Zermatt: 'Longest' hanging pedestrian bridge opens in Switzerland - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-40764453

Gay rights 50 years on: 10 ways in which the UK has changed - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-40743946

Name of Groans: The Search for the Most Truly Awful Restaurant Name in America - https://www.eater.com/2017/7/17/15929998/truly-awful-restaurant-names-puns

Photography:

2017 International Drone Photography Contest - http://www.dronestagr.am/2017-international-drone-photography-contest/

Science:

Research Shows That Puppies Have Stroppy Teenage Phase Too - https://graziadaily.co.uk/life/real-life/research-shows-puppies-stroppy-teenage-phase/

Social Media:

Podghazi: Instagram influencers use comment collusion to game the algorithm - https://digiday.com/marketing/podghazi-instagram-influencers-use-comment-collusion-game-algorithm/

Sport:

Athletics:

Brendan Foster names his favourite moments and athletes - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/40752586 Because a large chunk of the BBC's commentators are ex-middle and long distance runners, there does tend to be more coverage of that than there might be. Brendan Foster was one of them so these are all the glories of the 5000 m plus runners. I particularly recommend the 'favourite moment' bit but also the 'best performance', because Haile Gebrselassie at his pomp was something else.

Technology:

Deception tech helps to thwart hackers' attacks - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-40751656

West Highlands worst in UK for broadband, MPs find - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-40757817 From 2017, but I doubt it has improved.

Wrestling:

A RIOTT, A BARON, AND A GRAVE! - https://www.inkedmag.com/culture/a-riott-a-baron-and-a-grave#gid=ci0234ff9d10012718&pid=inked-329422

Art:

Flint iron ring sculpture plans met with criticism - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-north-east-wales-40703954

Economics:

More than 2,500 products subject to shrinkflation, says ONS - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-40703866

How formula milk shaped the modern workplace - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-40281403

History:

How Britain supported the early release of Rudolf Hess - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-40647291

Back from the Front: Tracking down WW1 grave markers - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-40446229 There's a quote in there, that really hits home. "One unusual marker is a wooden Star of David, at Broadgreen Cemetery, Liverpool, commemorating an unknown Jewish soldier.

Often it was impossible to identify an individual soldier's remains, and Merseyside has a particular concentration of markers for so-called "unknowns", probably brought back during pilgrimages by churches and other groups."

The King's Liverpool Regiment were my great grandfather's regiment but at least we know where he's buried, and I know lots of people didn't, because to this day, the Lancashires (which the King's Liverpool were amalgamated into) still send a representative to every funeral of a World War I unknown British soldier because there's a good chance he's one of theirs.

Miscellaneous:

Alice Cooper finds Warhol artwork after decades rolled up in storage - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-40715105

Refugee children on Lesbos helped to face fear of drowning - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-40580529

The extraordinary life of a 91-year-old beauty queen - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-40709840

Taiwan's Taoists protest against curbs on incense and firecrackers - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-40699113 From 2017

The city that makes the most expensive boats in the world - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-40681345

The last days of Phnom Penh's iconic White Building - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-40652014

Music:

The brilliance of Scott Walker - explained! - https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/articles/76b1d907-dc01-45e7-9b83-1cd2a0054da3

Sport:

Baseball:

PJ Conlon: Belfast-born pitcher to make Major League Baseball debut - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/northern-ireland/44029898 From 2018

Cricket:

England's World Cup win: The transformation of women's cricket - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/40701196 From 2017.

Football:

Are serious knee injuries in the Premier League really at 'epidemic' levels? - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/40679002 From 2017

Rugby League:

Castleford Tigers: Why no hullaballoo for League Leaders Shield win? - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/40698382 Possibly, just possibly, because, due to the existence of the actual title, we all know that the League Leaders Shield means nothing. I speak as a Saints fan. How many times have we won it and not gone on to win the league because of some disaster in the playoffs. I know the idea was to try and have the league actually matter after several complaints (including from Saints fans) that it was stupid that you could be miles ahead at the end of the actual season and it not matter at all. But it still doesn't, and giving a team the world's tiniest plate to make up for that does nothing.

Rugby Union:

Women's Rugby World Cup 2017: England XVs contracts will not be renewed - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/40704070 From 2017, but I don't think they went back on their decision. It's one of those things where, for all that governing bodies talk a good game about sporting equality, for some reason, when there's a money shortage, the cuts are always to women's sport first. See also bobsleigh, see also football.

Technology:

How a 'smarter' power system might affect you - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-40704036

Health:

Oral sex spreading unstoppable bacteria - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-40520125 From the subheading - "a decline in condom use". Why have people stopped using condoms?!!!

How I saved the NHS £22 million, says mum - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-40454684

History:

How a former slave gave a quilt to Queen Victoria - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-40500884

Law and order:

Islamist terror and the complex legal battle - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-40355492

Miscellaneous:

The corner of England where the Stars and Stripes fly high - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-40457736

Can Mexico save its journalists? - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-39436568

Ascension Islanders left stranded after RAF halts flights - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-40442318

Counting the dead in Manipur's shoot-to-kill war - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-40271353

Politics:

Trump and Putin: Comparing the men behind the meeting - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-40522656 From 2017

History:

Canada to apologise for 'LGBT purge' in government - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-40268010 From 2017

Law and Order:

Two brothers, same murder, but one goes free. Why? - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-40375420

Miscellaneous:

Transgender train workers: 'Don't pity us' - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-40370811

Italy acid attack model Gessica Notaro returns to work - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-40393426

'I kept my daughter's body at home for three weeks' - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-40367076

The secret lives of young IS fighters - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/is_fighters

Film exposes London's sex industry underworld - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-40363513

Singhsbury's renamed Morrisinghs after Sainsbury's 'legal row' - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-40416049

Music:

Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl in Glastonbury tribute to dead fan - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-40407654

Beyonce songwriter shares her top seven tips for making it in music - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/4SFJynhW1RR6sKsRrqBJnSj/beyonce-songwriter-shares-her-top-seven-tips-for-making-it-in-music

Politics:

How Midlanders narrowed it down to a hung parliament - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-40272464 From 2017

Sport:

Cricket:

The rise of Rabada - http://www.thecricketmonthly.com/story/1133303/the-rise-of-rabada

Rugby:

British rugby fan crashes on New Zealand All Blacks' couch - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-40401731

History:

Six Day War: Six ways the conflict still matters - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-40117261

Politics: These all related to the 2017 UK General Election

Election results 2017: 20 things you may have missed - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2017-40211261

Election 2017: The result in maps and charts - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2017-40176349

Theatre:

National Theatre: Fifty Years of Costume - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgxcWne7uzg

Sport:

Formula 1:

2017 f1metrics end of season report - https://f1metrics.wordpress.com/2017/12/05/2017-f1metrics-end-of-season-report/amp/ I can't quite follow the maths but it's an interesting way of looking at it.

Also in October, I took advantage of going home anyway to visit the Terracotta Warriors exhibition at Liverpool Museum (which is now called the World Museum for reasons I do not understand. I mean the one next to the Walker Art Gallery).

It was really good. They did a really good job of setting the Qin Emperor in context, admittedly, tidied up for international consumption, but still context, and why he was so important. And why he was the sort of person who was buried with 8000 odd terracotta soldiers.

(I feel I need to add that we were encouraged to take photos, provided we had flashes turned off. If they'd told me earlier I would have brought my camera, but instead I had to use my phone.)

( On to the stars of the show )

The warriors themselves come in a variety of different poses, to represent different parts of the Emperor's army.

There are figures of infantry generals -

Lower ranking infantry officers -

And plain infantry men - As you can see in the background, the warriors were originally painted, and had glorious uniforms.

Outside the exhibition, there was an example of what they think the General's looked like in full colour.



This one is a chariot warrior, minus his spear -

Chariot driver -

A kneeling archer -

and a standing archer -



Probably my favourite not-actually-an-artefact was the "how the warriors were made" diorama that ran along the wall opposite where the individual warriors were placed. It was very stylised but I did like the foreman figure going "argh! You've dropped one of the heads!!!" Which was remarkably clear given they were stylised blank-featured figures.

There were also really interesting artefacts from the grave of a later emperor. ( Underneath )

I was lucky enough to visit after the Golden Horse of Maoling was put on show.

The Horse was the last major exhibit of the exhibition, and led into the last room. I shall leave that as a mystery, in case a similar exhibition is put on near anyone else and they get the chance to go.

Healthcare:

Cancer Drugs Fund 'huge waste of money' - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-39711137

History:

When Adolf Hitler confidante Unity Mitford came to stay - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-39304317

Law and order:

Fewer Youths Incarcerated, But Gap Between Blacks And Whites Worsens - https://www.npr.org/2017/09/27/551864016/fewer-youths-incarcerated-but-gap-between-blacks-and-whites-worsens

Miscellaneous:

Why most people’s favorite color is blue - https://medium.com/the-peruser/why-most-peoples-favorite-color-is-blue-bd84fc4e4dfb

What, Really, Is A Monument? - https://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2017/09/24/550699469/what-really-is-a-monument

TED 2017: UK 'Iron Man' demonstrates flying suit - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-39441825

Female Islamic clerics in Indonesia issue rare child marriage fatwa - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-39741891 The BBC headline editor once again fails massively. They should have gone with "Female Islamic clerics in Indonesia issue rare fatwa" or "Female Islamic clerics in Indonesia issue a child marriage fatwa".

The teenager telling pupils how his friends were shot dead - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39732466

Theatre:

Russell Tovey and his dream role in 'gay fantasia' - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-39717230

(You'll all be glad to know there's only one part this week)

Art:

Mexico City metro's 'penis seat' sparks debate - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-39449506

History:

Peter Taylor: How has terror changed in 50 years? - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39432041

Grand National 2017: Twenty years since terrorist threats delayed race - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/horse-racing/39419174

Miscellaneous:

Meet the Hunter Troop: Norway's tough-as-nails female soldiers - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-39434655

The joy and sadness of returning to Mosul - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-39437227

I’m not “Black enough” for Inc. Magazine - https://facesoffounders.org/im-not-black-enough-for-inc-magazine-337569d54a6b

Music:

Prince's Sign O' The Times, 30 years on - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-39441461

Politics:

Donald Trump is dangerous when he’s losing - https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/2/22/14658062/donald-trump-illiberalism-losing From February last year

70 days in, Donald Trump’s presidency is flailing - https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/3/29/15094936/70-days-donald-trump-presidency-flailing From March last year

News:

Three words to set alarm bells off for every firm - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39429819

Information warfare: Is Russia really interfering in European states? - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-39401637

Arts and crafts:

Artistic Maps of Pakistan and India Show Embroidery Techniques of Each Region - https://mymodernmet.com/pakistan-india-embroidery-map/

Food and drink:

The wine detective battling counterfeiters - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39404487

Raw Data from the Meat Atlas - https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/raw-data-from-the-meat-atlas There is a bit of a pro-vegetarian slant to the article around the maps but they are interesting nonetheless.

History:

Portraits of the Great War: Searching for descendants through art - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-39406141

Miscellaneous:

Didcot is 'most normal town in England', researchers claim - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-39428314 I know several people that live there so I am filled with dubiousness about this claim

Japan turns to Basil Fawlty in race for Olympic English - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39410915

In pictures: Life on Clapham High Street - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-39405318

My little princess and the lost wallet - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39417904

New £1 coin's 'hidden' security feature - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39409313

Everything you need to know about the new £1 coin - https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/38487910

The place where children can be very unlucky with their names - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-39351167

Music:

Sir Paul McCartney on Lennon, Kanye and his own musical legacy - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-39351710

10 musicians who said the sweetest things about their mums - https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/articles/dcefdb71-fba3-4133-97ec-ba24ba068833

Politics:

Freedom Caucus: Do these 29 white men run America? - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-39410555

Science:

MELK Is Not A Cancer Target. Surprise! - http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2017/03/27/melk-is-not-a-cancer-target-surprise

Sport:

Football:

N'Golo Kante: How can Premier League clubs create next star? - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39248977 They might want to start by acknowledging that you don't need to be big to be brilliant.

Football Association 'ups ante' as it tries to keep ex-England players in football - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39296435

Technology:

Brands need to fire adtech - https://artplusmarketing.com/brands-need-to-fire-adtech-f9d18edd2f9a

GOOGLE AND FACEBOOK CAN’T JUST MAKE FAKE NEWS DISAPPEAR - https://www.wired.com/2017/03/google-and-facebook-cant-just-make-fake-news-disappear/

Samsung: Is Galaxy S8 the firm's most important phone yet? - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39418774

History:

Inside the Secret World of Russia’s Cold War Mapmakers - https://www.wired.com/2015/07/secret-cold-war-maps/

Journalism:

And the media isn’t reporting it! - https://medium.com/@Otterly/and-the-media-isnt-reporting-it-d9cb4b8087fe I think I might just send this to people when they type the title.

Miscellaneous:

All you need to know how to influence the EU in one easy chart - http://www.aaronmcloughlin.com/need-know-influence-eu-one-easy-chart/

Are there more trees on Earth than there are stars in the Milky Way? - https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/are-there-more-trees-on-earth-than-there-are-stars-in-the-milky-way/

The street artist who paints wheat silos - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-39023899

Life expectancy to break 90 barrier by 2030 - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-39040146

Couples speak of pain over spouse visa rules - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-35552289

'Encephalitis cost me 10 years of memories' - http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/39043693/encephalitis-cost-me-10-years-of-memories

Transgender dolls and all that Jazz - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-39030215

News:

NPR has created a team devoted to covering President Trump's conflicts of interest - https://www.poynter.org/news/npr-has-created-team-devoted-covering-president-trumps-conflicts-interest From last February

How Milo's downfall split the alt-right - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-39045458 Again from last February

Science:

Octopuses are taking over the oceans, and no one knows why - https://inhabitat.com/octopi-are-taking-over-the-oceans-and-no-one-knows-why/

Sport:

Super League: English rugby league could expand to Australia, John Kear - http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/39039979 It's definitely an idea, you can't argue with that. And I like John Kear and want him to keep having ideas. That being said, it's a stupid idea.

Technology:

Robotic Somnox pillow gently "breathes" to soothe users to sleep - https://www.dezeen.com/2017/02/20/robotic-somnox-pillow-gently-breathes-soothe-users-sleep-design-technology/

Tomorrow's cities - nightmare vision of the future? - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-37384152