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horses for courses: Word of the day for April 12, 2018

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Word of the day is horses for courses : (chiefly Britain, idiomatic) Different people are suited for different jobs or situations; what is fitting in one case may not be fitting in another. The Grand National Festival, a horse racing event held annually at Aintree Racecourse near Liverpool, England, UK, begins on this day in 2018.

Picture of the day for April 12, 2018

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Picture of the day on April 12, 2018: The Soyuz TMA-13 spacecraft, carrying Expedition 18 Commander Michael Fincke, Flight Engineer Yury V. Lonchakov and American spaceflight participant Richard Garriott, launched Sunday, October 12, 2008, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The three crew members docked with the International Space Station on October 14. Garriott returned to Earth on October 24 with two members of the Expedition 17 crew, while Fincke and Lonchakov remained on the station for six months.

horses for courses: Word of the day for April 12, 2018

horses for courses , phrase : (chiefly Britain, idiomatic) Different people are suited for different jobs or situations; what is fitting in one case may not be fitting in another. The Grand National Festival, a horse racing event held annually at Aintree Racecourse near Liverpool, England, UK, begins on this day in 2018.

Motorcyclist Somehow Saves Himself From Falling After Hitting A Pothole At 130MPH

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Motorcyclist Somehow Saves Himself From Falling After Hitting A Pothole At 130MPH

Motorcyclist Somehow Saves Himself From Falling After Hitting A Pothole At 130MPH

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Motorcyclist Somehow Saves Himself From Falling After Hitting A Pothole At 130MPH The sheer force of human will to resist the motorcycle wobble is something else. April 11, 2018 at 11:50PM

Article of the day for April 12, 2018

The Article of the day for April 12, 2018 is Imogen Holst . Imogen Holst (12 April 1907 – 9 March 1984) was a British composer, arranger, conductor, teacher and festival administrator. In the 1940s she helped to establish Dartington Hall as a major centre of music education, and for the next 20 years was the joint artistic director of the Aldeburgh Festival. The only child of the composer Gustav Holst, she attended the Royal College of Music, but was unable for health reasons to follow her ambitions to be a pianist or a dancer, and became a full-time organiser for the English Folk Dance and Song Society. In the early 1950s she became Benjamin Britten's musical assistant. In later years she concentrated on the preservation of her father's musical legacy, and wrote several books on his life and works. The music she wrote is not widely known and has received little critical attention. She received numerous academic honours, and was appointed Commander of the Order of the British ...

Rescue on the Killer Mountain

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Rescue on the Killer Mountain

Picture of the day for April 12, 2018

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The Soyuz TMA-13 spacecraft, carrying Expedition 18 Commander Michael Fincke, Flight Engineer Yury V. Lonchakov and American spaceflight participant Richard Garriott, launched Sunday, October 12, 2008, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The three crew members docked with the International Space Station on October 14. Garriott returned to Earth on October 24 with two members of the Expedition 17 crew, while Fincke and Lonchakov remained on the station for six months..

Rescue on the Killer Mountain

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Rescue on the Killer Mountain When two climbers were stranded near the summit of Nanga Parbat last winter, they sent out a desperate call on their satellite phone. A hundred miles away, a Polish team of extraordinary climbers answered the call, prompting one of the most daring rescues in mountaineering history.

Article of the day for April 12, 2018

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Article of the day is Imogen Holst. Check it out: https://ift.tt/1oWeX6W