How Napoleon secured the privileged place of Catholicism in France but reinforced Vatican’s control Amid French Revolution, Napoleon Bonaparte, First Consul of France, and Pope Pius VII shared a common goal: to reconcile the church with the state. But while they were able to work together initially, formalising an agreement in 1801, relations between them…
Pickled cucumbers were dyed green with copper-based dyes, which most people failed to realise that the green copper dyes were extremely poisonous, in Victorian England. Fertilizer produced by sucking nitrogen out of the air now sustains about half the population of the globe, as farmers worldwide depend on the data spewing from 160 environmental satellite…
Saint George’s Day also called the Feast of Saint George is the feast day of Saint George as celebrating the anniversary of his death in 303 AD, by various Christian and by the several nations, kingdoms, countries and cities of which Saint George is the patron saint including Bulgaria, England, Georgia, Portugal, Spain (Catalonia and…
Covid 19 officially known as B.1.617 was first detected in India back in October. Sample testing is not widespread enough across India to determine how far or quickly the variant is spreading. It was detected in 220 out of 361 Covid samples collected between January and March in the western Indian state of Maharashtra and…
Tesla autopilot feature can be tricked into operating without a driver according to consumer reports engineers who looked into claims that Autopilot can operate without a driver present. On Saturday two men were killed after a Tesla car crashed into a tree and caught fire in Texas. The victims found in the front passenger seat…
Twenty two Covid patients have died at Zakir Hussain hospital in Nasik, India after they lost oxygen supply due to a leak on Wednesday while an oxygen tanker was refilling a storage tank. According to officials there was no oxygen flowing to ventilators for about 30 minutes resulting in fatalities. India is in the middle…
White officer Derek Chauvin who was filmed kneeling on 46-year-old African-American Mr George Floyd’s neck for more than nine minutes, sparking mass protest against racism, was found guilty on Tuesday of second-degree murder, third-degree murder and manslaughter. Sentencing is likely to happen in 8 weeks, and Chauvin could spend decades in jail, although he is…
Native to South America, Rosie has lived at Sewerby Hall in East Yorkshire since 1990 when she was brought from a bird park in Surrey. Staff at the Bridlington Zoo said “ the grand old lady” had been the “centre of attention”, with special watermelon and fish cake made for her party. Humboldts whose scientific…
Bradford-based Moshin and Zuber Issa, billionaire Asda owner buy 70 Leon restaurants across UK and Europe, for 100m. The brothers’ petrol forecourt business EG Group also owns Asda. Leon’s CEO John Vincent who co-founded the chain with Henry Dimbleby and Chef Allegra McEvedy with a brand focused on creating healthy fast food in 2004, described…