3 h. ago Pompeii volcanic eruption was so hot it turned brain to glass

Fiery ash cloud that dissipated quickly was likely first deadly event during Mount Vesuvius eruption

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4 h. ago What TikTokers get wrong in their viral AI 'history' videos: 'Healthy' and 'modern' people during the Black Death, the wrong kind of eruption at Pompeii and 'absurd' WWI uniforms in the trenches

Put yourself in the shoes of a soldier in the trenches in the First World War, or imagine waking up on a sunny morning in Pompeii hours before annihilation.

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5 h. ago What TikTokers get wrong in their viral 'history' videos: 'Healthy' and 'modern' people during the Black Death, the wrong kind of eruption at Pompeii and 'absurd' WWI uniforms in the trenches

Put yourself in the shoes of a soldier in the trenches in the First World War, or imagine waking up on a sunny morning in Pompeii hours before annihilation.

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5 h. ago ‘Ambition beyond words’: How Siena’s art revolution brought heaven down to earth

Before the Black Death devastated Siena, the city thrummed with energy, expressed in art and architecture designed to dazzle its audience – and which still astonishes 800 years laterIf you want to know the moment of a medieval Italian city’s greatest prosperity, look at the year it began work on its cathedral. In Siena, the magic year was 1226, the start of some 85 years of construction of the duomo, a remarkable gothic structure with an intricately complex, creamy pink facade and stripy, black-and-white campanile. “The scale of ambition is difficult to put into words,” says Laura Llewellyn, one of the curators of The Rise of Painting, the National Gallery’s new exhibition of Sienese art. “The extravagance of it: to appreciate it you need to unknow and unlearn later buildings like the duomos in Florence and St Peter’s in Rome.”But by the 1350s, Siena’s most glorious years in the raging Tuscan sun would be as good as over. After decades of rapid artistic transformation – a half centu...

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34 h. ago Jude Bellingham's new girlfriend Ashlyn Castro targeted by online trolls in viral 'escort site' hoax, as fans dredge up her dating history

Real Madrid star Bellingham recently went public with Castro and was spotted watching his side's game against Girona on Saturday alongside the American model.

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39 h. ago Why Jamaican police drama Get Millie Black is better than Death in Paradise

Stars Tamara Lawrence and Joe Dempsie and writer Marlon James chat about Jamaica-set police drama Get Millie Black that is “more than Death in Paradise”

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6 d. ago TikTok is wrong. Feeding your baby butter before bed won’t help them sleep

A TikTok trend where parents feed their babies butter to aid sleep is misguided. Karleen Gribble, Naomi Hull and Nina Jane Chad report.

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8 d. ago The Black Death was spread by Mongol troops in the Middle East a century before it wiped out half of Britons in the 1300s, new study suggests

New research has found that the plague may actually have caused milder outbreaks in the Middle East a century before it devastated Europe between 1348 and 1350.

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9 d. ago ‘History was attempted to be buried’: the true story behind Oscar

Director RaMell Ross details horrors behind Florida School for Boys that backdropped the moving film adaptationIt was one of the darkest, most shameful episodes in Florida’s grotesque history of state-sanctioned racism: dozens of children, most of them Black, beaten or shot to death, or sexually abused in a decades-long reign of terror at a secretive and remote reform school.Early next month at the Academy Awards in Los Angeles, the horrors that befell the students of the notorious Arthur G Dozier School for Boys will be laid bare before the world, courtesy of a best picture nomination for the “transcendentally moving and frightening film” Nickel Boys, and a best adapted screenplay nod for director RaMell Ross and his co-writer, Joslyn Barnes. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Why it's wrong to paint Generation Z as unpatriotic snowflakes

The way to respond to young people’s complaints about life in modern Britain is present them with a future they can believe in

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