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Trumpian Return With a four-year period outside the White House, the former President is set for a comeback of the ages. Only President Grover Cleveland managed the same feat over a century ago. The now president-elect secured every swing state, including the formerly Blue Wall, Rust Belt states. Mr Trump
Literature
The novel, Before the Coffee Gets Cold is the first of a series of six. Originally written in Japanese, the title being コーヒーが冷めないうちに, it was translated into English by Geoffrey Trousselot. The series is composed of six short 300 hundred paged novels written by Toshikazu Kawaguchi. The novelty of this
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Japanese Election After over a decade of rule and near uninterrupted power since 1958 the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan (LDP) has lost its majority. In a snap-election called by Shigeru Ishiba, the relatively new leader of the LDP and prime Minister of Japan, aimed at securing a mandate from
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Moldovan Referendum and Presidential Election In a nail-biter referendum the Moldovan electorate voted for a pro-EU constitution, 50.38% to 49.62% or 750,137 to 738,737. Prior polling suggested a much stronger margin for the proposed constitution, making the final tally a shock to some. The pro-EU constitution
Literature
Ken Follet is one of my absolute favourite authors. He is the writer that got me into reading in the first place and for that, I will be ever grateful. He is most famous for his early career writing thrillers in the 1980s. After gaining some recognition he decided to
Science
The Collatz Conjecture was named after and introduced by Lothar Collatz in 1937. The Collatz Conjecture is one of the most infamous unsolved problems in mathematics. It concerns a sequence of integers in which each term is obtained from the previous term following this process: if the previous term is
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Kenyan Deputy President Removed from Office Following a tumultuous period in Kenyan politics, the Senate overwhelmingly voted to dispose Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua, charging him with 5 out of 11 grounds for impeachment. This makes Mr Gachagua the first deputy president in Kenyan history to be removed through an impeachment
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Imagine this, a tired chemist dozes of for a few hours only to dream about a snake that is biting its own tail. This dream may sound very bizarre to us but it would later lead to one of the most renowned discoveries in the field of organic chemistry. This
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A British Tory Leadership Election The final stretch of the Tory leadership election is ahead. After a strong showing in the third round of voting the former Home Secretary and centrist James Cleverly is out. Other centrist Tom Tugendhat's support from the third round did not translate into
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Austrian Election After a turbulent election cycle with the centre-right ÖVP at the helm and Greens beside the Austrians have voted for change. The resignation of former Chancellor Sebastian Kurz came with a significant drop in polling after the highest of any Austrian party in over a decade. The new
Literature
And Then There Were None is a mystery novel by Agatha Christie, published in 1939. It was originally published under a different title but officially changed to its present title in 1985. The title originates from the last line of an 1869 minstrel song by Frank Green, which serves as
Science
When discussing the discovery of DNA's double helix structure, James Watson and Francis Crick are two common names that pop up. These scientists received a Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine in 1962 for their discovery of the molecular structure of DNA. However, what many people don't