Hints and tips:
...In 1967 the US’s X-15 hit a speed of 4,520mph — 6.7 times the speed of sound — when Major William Knight piloted the rocket-powered experimental aircraft....
...In the landmark case, NCAA v Alston, all nine justices ranging from the liberal Sonia Sotomayor to the conservative Clarence Thomas, found that rules that forbid student athletes from getting paid tutoring...
...In Saint-Thomas-d’Aquin on the Left Bank, E&V is selling a four-bedroom flat for €3.2m. Emile Garcin is advertising a four-bedroom flat overlooking a 17th-century courtyard for €4.45m....
...Our glum destination is “Black Lake”, a 10-minute video commissioned by the museum, directed by Andrew Thomas Huang, and projected on a pair of large screens in a cavelike room....
...One of Shakespeare’s best-loved creations, the play’s cowardly and raucous knight Falstaff originally trod the boards by another name: John Oldcastle....
...A £2,750 watercolour called “Loading a Cart” by Thomas Hennell – one of the main artists in the “Recording Britain” scheme – shows an aspect of British country life that is indeed long lost....
...Get the film of Henry V right, and you scoop the 1996 Oscars. Establish the “authoritative” text, and all those education dollars are yours....
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