Category: The Saturn Herald
In 1990 China was a “Bicycle Kingdom” where over 670 million people owned pushbikes when they were following the lead of Deng Xiaoping, who defined prosperity as a “Flying Pigeon bicycle in every household”. China today has 8-lane motorways as most lower and middle-income megacities around the world have ditched the bike. The world had…
Bronze Lion Heads with mooring rings in their mouth line the Victoria Embankment, on the northern bank of river Thames, was created for Bazalgette’s new embankments in 1868, with a Mystic rhyme “ accessible via Temple ( Circle and District line), When the Lions drink, London will sink. When it’s up to their manes, we’ll…
www.londonfestivalofarchitects.com A CITY FOR EVERYONE. A beginner’s Guide to Urbanism. Talk at the Czech Embassy Notting Hill. A talk featuring Osamu Okamura and Manijeh Verghese chaired by Peter Smisek happened at the Czech Centre London on Monday 6 June – part of the London Festival of Architects Events. How do we relate to something…
Make a difference for this WorldOceanDay and use your voice for our ocean. Urge World leaders to protect at least 30 per cent of our planet’s lands, waters, and ocean by 2030. Celebrate World Ocean Day on June 8. What do we know about our ocean? The covers Ocean covers 70 per cent of…
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A total ban on trade of ivory has come into effect in an “important conservation victory” for the world’s elephants. The export and import and dealing of elephant ivory items of all ages not only those produced after a certain date – is now illegal, unless they have been registered or have an exemption certificate.…
IMG_9987 The Queen greets crowds on the Mall from the Buckingham Palace balcony alongside Prince Charles and Camilla and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge with their children for the finale of her Platinum Jubilee celebrations. A pageant which took two and half hours to travel 1.8 miles (3 km ) against the backdrop…
Geetanjali Shree ( Geetanjali Pandey) was born in Manipuri Uttarpradesh, India, and her translator, Daisy Rockwell, the author of Tomb of Sand which scooped this year’s International Booker Prize the first time a work in Hindi had ever won, then one of India’s biggest dairy brands accorded them the highest accolade, a cartoon rendition of…
Thanksgiving Service for the Queen’s 70 years on the throne was held at St Paul’s Cathedral in London and attended by Prince Charles, Duchess of Cornwall, Camilla, Prince William, Duchess of Cambridge, Kate, Prince Harry, and Meghan. Senior politicians including PM Boris Johnson, and previous prime ministers along with leaders of world faith and others…