FLORENCE: A Renaissance-era raised passageway that connects Florence’s Uffizi Galleries to the Medici’s former residence, Palazzo Pitti, will reopen to the public on Saturday (Dec 21), offering spectacular views of the historic Italian city. The Vasari Corridor, named after Giorgio Vasari, the 16th-century architect, painter and art historian who designed it, snakes its way through central Florence, passing over the Arno River via the Ponte Vecchio bridge, one of the city’s landmarks. The Uffizi museum, which manages the corridor and oversaw restoration and safety upgrades costing €11 million (US$11.5 million), called it, in a statement, an “air tunnel” hovering over…
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Shakeup comes as Canadian prime minister is mulling his future as Liberal Party leader after top minister’s resignation.Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has reshuffled his cabinet, just days after his top deputy resigned in a move that sent shockwaves across the country and renewed calls for Trudeau to step down as head of the Liberal Party. The prime minister welcomed the members of his new cabinet during a swearing-in ceremony in the capital Ottawa on Friday. Among the most important portfolios, Ontario MP David McGuinty was named as Canada’s minister of public safety, overseeing federal law enforcement agencies. Nathaniel Erskine-Smith,…
As recently as this week, it seemed that New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft and team president Jonathan Kraft would stick with first-year head coach Jerod Mayo for another season even though the Patriots will enter the weekend at 3-11. However, NFL insider Dianna Russini of The Athletic became the latest to suggest ahead of New England’s game at the 11-3 Buffalo Bills on Sunday that the Krafts could experience a change of heart by Week 18. “I believe that Jerod Mayo needs to put out a really good coaching performance to wrap up the season,” Russini explained on the latest edition of her “Scoop…
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Is your favourite sci-fi short story in this list? Sometimes you’re in the mood for a slice of science fiction but you haven’t got the time to embark on a Red Mars or a Dune. All hail, then, the sci-fi short story, bringing you a slice of the weird, the mind-expanding and the futuristic in pocket-sized format. Did you know that Hugo Gernsback, after whom science fiction’s biggest awards, the Hugos, are named, came up with the term science fiction (or “scientifiction” as he had it) as he launched the first edition of his sci-fi story magazine Amazing Stories, in 1926?…
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