The Guns of Navarone (1961)
RogerBW's Blog10 Aug 2026
1961 war, dir. J. Lee Thompson, Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn: IMDb. The guns on the Greek island have to be destroyed, and only a small team… Well, yes.
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top 39%Vondrousova’s antics put tennis doping tests in spotlight – a far cry from football’s view | Tumaini Carayol
Tennis | The Guardianby Tumaini Carayol10 Aug 2026
In the months between the first announcement of Marketa Vondrousova’s doping test refusal and the release of the full reasoned decision after her four‑year ban, the 2023 Wimbledon champion did her...
The Crossroads
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Australia is home to the only mass cuttlefish gathering in the world. This year these giants didn’t return
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This year’s cuttlefish season has been unlike any other. Every winter, more than 100,000 giant Australian cuttlefish can usually be found mating along the rocky coastline of Point Lowly, northeast...
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Everyone said I shouldn’t go. Friends and family — even my preternaturally understanding husband — were all against it. They thought there was no way I’d make it through the border.
MIT researchers tackle the economic realities of fusion power
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In the last decade, scientists have shown that fusion energy can work, as a physical process. Next question: Can it work economically?
Maharashtra's Ladki Bahin: Why India's largest cash-transfer scheme for women is under scrutiny
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[Testing WordPress built-in podcast feature, presumably their answer to Notebook LM] Pip: Welcome to iHack, therefore iBlog — where the blog posts are long, the appendices are longer, and someone...
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The Argument Against AI Writing Is At Least 2,400 Years Old
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I’m thirty-four chapters into Zero Knowledge, a novel I’m writing with Phin Argofy. I came up with the concept for the book.
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This essay is part of Redemption Songs, a limited-run newsletter that spotlights one song each week by incarcerated artists.
The Guardian view on India’s green growth gamble: it will need more than private finance | Editorial
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In 2010, Shanghai turned a polluted industrial brownfield into Houtan Park; its wetlands now clean up to 634,000 gallons of river water a day
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In 2010, Shanghai transformed a polluted industrial brownfield into Houtan Park. Its wetlands now clean up to 634,000 gallons of river water each day.
Apple Pie Shot
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Frequent cannabis users wake up with their “stress hormone” already elevated - Date: - August 9, 2026 - Source: - Oregon State University - Summary: - Frequent cannabis users may wake up with...
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Treasure Island: The San Francisco Island Most Visitors Walk Past - Travel Dudes
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Treasure Island sits in the middle of the San Francisco Bay, close enough to see the city skyline, Alcatraz, and the Bay Bridge from its waterfront, and on clear days, the Golden Gate Bridge too.
Recession nails or racial erasure? Why a ‘naked’ manicure is not as neutral as it seems
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Trends at Copenhagen fashion week are usually easy to spot. The so-called “fifth fashion week”, a laidback sibling to the other four main fashion cities, has previously popularised everything from...