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Just Contemporary Mini-Reviews: It's Raining Cupcakes, Choker and Overprotected
I like mini-reviews. I don't do them terribly often, partly because I talk/type too much to be consistent with 'mini' anything, but I also have a lot of books that I would love to spotlight during Just Contemporary, so I'm chearing and doing three.:)These three books are completely different from each other, and have pretty much n…
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UK: Archaeologists slam Stonehenge tunnel plan
Experts have hit out at plans for a road tunnel under Stonehenge, warning it could damage the oldest encampment discovered near the stones.Vehicles on the A303 at Stonehenge in Wiltshire, where a 1.8-mile tunnel is being planned [Credit: Steve Parsons/PA]Charcoal dug up from the Mesolithic encampment at Blick Mead in the world her…
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Italy: Verona's amphitheatre to be restored
Verona's famed Roman amphitheater, home to one of the world's premier opera festivals, is one of the first big beneficiaries of a new Italian government initiative to encourage private donations to protect cultural treasures.The project aims to secure the open-air Verona Arena, the third-largest Roman-era amphitheatre to survive a…