Articles in Gentility
The Telegraph’s take on the ten best Post-apocalyptic vehicles in the movies.
via Post-apocalyptic vehicles – Telegraph.
He is the inspiration behind Martin Amis’s new novel. But the life of his former flatmate and closest friend could not have been more different.
You almost certainly won’t have heard of Rob Henderson. He is …
LIKE almost every dieter in America, Wendy Bassett has used all sorts of weight-loss products. Nothing worked, she said, until she tried Sensa: granules she scatters on almost everything she eats, and which are supposed …
Haylie Hocking, 27, only found out that strapping 30-year-old fitness fanatic Jason Brake made adult films just weeks before the big day.
A friend organising her hen night searched online for a male stripper and spotted …
Was it only last year that round sunglasses were considered square?
The hot eyewear look of 2008 was pretty much defined by plastic Wayfarer knockoffs, garish neon trapezoids often seen color-coordinated with a plaid shirt and …
During a cricket tour of North Korea, a team of expats enjoyed a privileged glimpse into a state rigidly isolated from the rest of the world.
It started as a bet. Jon Newton, president of Shanghai …
1910: Jacques Cousteau is born in Saint-André-de-Cubzac, in the Gironde department of France.
Like his contemporary, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Cousteau was a man of wide-ranging appetites and accomplishments. He was, at various times (and often simultaneously), …
The question I’m asked more often than any other is, “What kitchen equipment should I buy?” Like cookbooks, kitchen equipment is a talisman; people believe that buying the right kind will make them good cooks. …
By JOEL WEICKGENANT
ANTWERP has been a byword for avant-garde fashion since a group of up-and-coming designers started working in the Flemish city in the 1980s.
The city’s historic core is now one of Europe’s hottest fashion …
Caffeine effects
Most of the effects of the coffee is the presence of caffeine, found in other food products (tea, cocoa-based drinks containing cola, etc). The physiological role of caffeine has long been exaggerated. Today it …
