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The 10 most beautiful public spaces in the world (photos)
Cars clogged the streets of Borehamwood, England, an outlying suburb of London, for decades. But in the mid-1990s, the town added new pedestrian-only areas to its center.
The change transformed the town, according to Esther Kurland, the director of Urban Design London, a nonprofit that connects urban designers and planners in the city.
UK estate agent publishes bizarre map showing safest places to live outside of ‘nuclear impact zone’
A UK estate agent has released a bizarre map which claims to show the only safe places to live if global nuclear war breaks out.
11-year-old boy has higher IQ than Stephen Hawking and Einstein!
Though it is hard to believe but it’s true. Arnav Shrma, an 11-year-old Indian-origin boy living in the United Kingdom, has higher IQ than geniuses like Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking. According to AIR News, Sharma has secured 162 points on a Mensa IQ test, two points higher than Einstein and Hawking.
This child prodigy hails from Reading town in southern England.
Women and men know different words, research suggests
The stereotypes that women only talk about fashion among themselves or men are only interested in exchanging views on the newest car model is clearly and outdated way of thinking. But it seems there could actually be some truth in that, because according to data analysis from the Centre for Reading Research, men and women knew different words.
Istanbul Book Fair opens at weekend
The 35th International Istanbul Book Fair will open on Nov. 12 at the TÜYAP Fair Convention and Congress Center in the city's Büyükçekmece district.
This year's guest of honor, Germany, will be represented by 30 publishers, while 13 authors from the country will take part in events and discussions.
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İzmirians hold reading festival despite low reader numbers
About 50 people, mostly young and mostly women, are lying on the grass on the Kordon, the coastal front at the center of İzmir, reading their books. It is Oct. 30, İzmir's Book Reading Festival, a spontaneous festival that surfaced on social media. It is strikingly simple - with no activities or sponsors: "Just bring your book, a cushion and a cup of coffee."
What qualities men want their wives and daughters to have!
According to a recent online survey of 818 men conducted by Hart Research Associates, men want startlingly different things in potential wives and daughters. On the one hand, wives should be attractive, daughters should not, while on the on the other hand, daughters should be independent, but wives should not.
Good television
As I was watching Netflix's new series, "Stranger Things," I felt like I was watching a show that sent me directly to my childhood through a worm hole, sending me back to the times when I was first discovering thrillers, R-rated movies and Stephen King novels…
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Croatian writer Dubravka Ugrešić to receive prestigious Vilenica Prize
Ugrešić, 67, is a literary historian and a sharp and lucid writer of novels and essays, in which she interweaves public and private, East and West and politics and cultures.
Margaret Papandreou’s “Love and Power” presented at Ianos bookstore (pics)
Former first lady Margaret Papandreou presented her autobiography, “Love and Power” (Patakis Publications) at Ianos bookstore at 8 p.m. on Thursday.
The panel of speakers included:
* Former deputy secretary-general of the UN, Sotiris Moussouris