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HAWKINGS: The obituary

BBC – Stephen Hawking – who died aged 76 – battled motor neurone disease to become one of the most respected and best-known scientists of his age. A man of great humour, he became a popular ambassador for science and was always careful to ensure that the general public had ready access to his work. His book A Brief History of Time became an unlikely best-seller although it is unclear how many people actually managed to get to the end of it. Image copyright AFP He appeared in a number of popular TV shows and lent his synthesised voice to Read More

UGANDA: MUSLIM COMMUNITY SECURES THE KAMPALA CITY MAYORAL POSITION (photos)

Editor’s note: The post may contain minor errors. We will fix them next week. By CHANGE OF GUARDS The Kampala city Mayoral position under the tenure of His Lordship Eriasi Read More

PARENTING: Read to your kids, read with your kids

By MARTHA LEAH NANGALAMA *** All photos in this post are copyrighted *** When I was a young girl growing up in Bududa, Uganda, our family had only 2 books.Read More

Koichi Takada unveils plant-covered Urban Forest housing high rise for Brisbane (PHOTOS)

Koichi Takada unveils plant-covered Urban Forest housing high rise for BrisbaneBy DEZEEN.COM 16 September 2020 Urban Forest is a 30-storey apartment building covered in thousand trees and plants that Koichi Read More

UGANDA: FOCUS ON MUSEVENI’S SCRAMBLE FOR BUGANDA’S “MAHOGORA” COUNTY

Image may be subject to copyright NOTE FROM EDITOR: This post may contain minor errors. We will correct them next week. MLN By CHANGE OF GUARDS Having been curved out Read More

A Harvest of Pictures: New Flickr Albums

Detail of Library of Congress Flickr albums page. Sept. 2020. September 17, 2020 By Barbara Orbach Natanson, LIBRARY OF CONGRESS While many Prints & Photographs Division staff are working separately from Read More

A puppy with a cleft lip is adopted by a boy with a cleft lip: ‘They instantly loved each other’

By THE WASHINGTON POST Bentley Boyers, 2, meets his new puppy, Lacey, at Jackson County Animal Shelter in Michigan. (Lydia Sattler) A rescued puppy with a cleft lip had been Read More

UGANDA: WHY OPHONO OPONDO IS A SUSPECT IN THE ALLEGED ATTACK ON HIS RESIDENCE

By CHANGE OF GUARDS Ophono OPONDO doubles as the Director of Uganda Media Center and a Spokesman for the Government/Museveni regime. Yesterday evening, September 10, 2020, he took to his Read More

The Last Macho: Rise and Fall of Spain’s Former King Juan Carlos (PHOTOS)

By Helene Zuber, SPIEGEL After the end of the Franco era, King Juan Carlos I helped his country become wealthy and democratic. Today he is exiled, with his legacy clouded by possible Read More

UGANDA: MUSEVENI IS GAMBLING WITH WINNING OVER MUSLIMS FROM GEN. TUMUKUNDE

By CHANGE OF GUARDS “I just wanted to have a close association with them because I think they have quite a presence in Uganda, especially in urban areas. In my Read More

Vegetable gardens, even in small homes and apartments (PHOTOS)

By DAILY MAVERICK As we’ve all been spending a fair amount of time at home, the thought of growing your own vegetables, even in a small flat, has been top Read More