Two stabbing victims drove into a Boys and Girls Club at 30th Road and 21 Street. Photo by Lloyd Mitchell Sign up for our PoliticsNY newsletter for the latest coverage and to stay informed about the 2021 elections in your district and across NYC Two men were stabbed in their […]
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The Queen’s 95th birthday celebrations are already underway
© @Copyright HELLO! Hello! Magazine With less than a month to go before the Queen turns 95, celebrations are already underway for the monarch’s milestone birthday. A range of official chinaware produced by the Royal Collection Trust has just gone on sale on Saturday – and the set is almost […]
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7 Chess Sets to Go with Your Queens Gambit Obsession
It’s been a year full of surprises—some of them pleasant, some of them not—and you can add chess’ resurgence in popularity to the list of the former. Thanks to the insane success of Netflix’s chess-and-pills drama The Queen’s Gambit, which is now the streamer’s most-watched scripted limited series, people are […]
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There’s a COVID chess boom on, and Netflix’s ‘The Queens Gambit’ is fanning the fervor
Other sites like chess.com allow players anywhere to play each other from their own homes: “The ability to play online chess with people a world away is one of the driving forces behind the recent chess boom,” said Toliver. Nick Barton, director of business development at chess.com, said the site […]
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Queen’s Birthday Honours list 2020 in full – from Marcus Rashford to 414 Covid heroes
Marcus Rashford today leads a roll call of heroes honoured for their part in the UK’s response to coronavirus. The footballer stands with 414 “unsung heroes” who helped the Covid-19 fight in a specially-expanded Queen’s Birthday Honours. Others made ‘Covid’ MBEs include “The Body Coach” Joe Wicks, 34, whose daily […]