In the week of the Oscars, Ban Ki-moon went to Hollywood to encourage writers and directors to write about climate change. In an online discussion afterwards on Climate Progress, the screenwriter Richard Brenne quoted the remark Abraham Lincoln made to Harriet Beecher Stowe, the author of the anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852).
Lincoln said: "Are you the little woman that started this great war?"
Country diary: It’s 10am at the Melplash Show and the cider contest is well
under way | Sara Hudston
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*Bridport, Dorset:* Away from the sheep, pigs and Martin Clunes’s horse,
there is a bounty of ciders to be sampled. Talk, though, is of this year’s
awful...
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