Hotel Vermont to serve roadkill-inspired menu

Are you brave enough to eat road kill? You can find out at the Hotel Vermont in November.
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Suffering Is One Very Long Moment; How Oscar Wilde’s prison sentence changed him.

The first time Oscar Wilde saw the inside of a prison, it was 1882—thirteen years before he’d serve the famous criminal sentence that produced De Profundis, his 55,000-word letter to his lover Lord Alfred Douglas.
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Pioneers of Engineering: Al-Jazari and the Banu Musa

We trace the path from modern technology back to the scientists who developed robots, water pumps and trick mechanisms.
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Lost your compassion? Watch this film

New documentary "A Syrian Love Story" shows we really don't know what's going on.
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Courtney Barnett and Paul Kelly cover Archie Roach's Charcoal Lane

The two Melbourne troubadours unite for a gentle new rendition of the Archie Roach classic Charcoal Lane ahead of its 25 year anniversary.
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India’s ‘Birdman’ Feeds 4,000 Parakeets A Day

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In Search of Photographic Treasure: Charles Gilbert Hine

A brilliantly gifted amateur who worked in New York in the latter part of the 19th and early 20th centuries, Hine set himself the task of photographing the streets and buildings and people of the city, his exquisite, small platinum, cyanotype, and albumen prints filled with its vitality.
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