The death of McAfee is the final chapter in the mad, bad life of a man who became my neighbour 13 years ago. We were both living on Ambergris Caye, a tropical island 16 miles off the Caribbean coast of Belize in Central America. He’d picked up what had been …
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Croatia and England were the favorites to progress against less heralded opposition, although Modric’s side faced a fiercely partisan atmosphere inside Hampden Park, where Scotland were vociferously backed by their expectant home crowd. Steve Clarke’s players came out swinging, only to concede from Croatia’s first real attack of the final …
Read More »‘The man is a genius’: Chelsea fans heap praise on mastermind Tuchel after comeback win at Manchester City
Heading down the tunnel at half time, the Blues trailed the English top flight leaders 1-0 after Raheem Sterling converted a spilled ball. Given that Billy Gilmour had fouled Gabriel Jesus on the stroke of the whistle, the damage could have been double had Sergio Aguero not attempted a horrendous …
Read More »‘I’m satisfied’: 18yo Russian genius scores sensational win over world chess champ Carlsen – then says he could have played better
The 18-year-old beat the world’s best chess player in style, inflicting a crushing defeat on the famed Norwegian in the Netherlands to end his impressive winning streak of 125 games. Esipenko needed just eight rounds to crush the reigning World Chess Champion in 17 moves, recording Carlsen’s first loss since 2017. …
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The “Notorious”, 32, will set foot in the UFC cage for the first time in almost exactly a year when he faces former title challenger Poirier on “Fight Island” on January 23 in a sequel to their UFC 178 clash six years ago, which McGregor won by first-round TKO. All …
Read More »Arrest in Spain of software genius John McAfee could spell the end of my former island neighbour’s wild escapades
As the law finally caught up with anti-virus software pioneer John McAfee, I had to wonder if that meant an end to the outlandish escapades of this paranoid pirate who, for several years, was one of my closest neighbours. Born the son of a US serviceman and British mother in …
Read More »The man and the helicopter. As Russian technical genius conquered America
130 years ago was born the famous Russian aircraft designer, philosopher and visionary Igor Sikorsky. It was he who developed those systems that are now used, for example, in modern helicopters of the presidents of the United States and Russia. Indeed, the legacy of the famous aircraft designer who created …
Read More »Genius invention, presented at the Dubai Design Week 2017. Photo
The main opening of the Dubai Design Week 2017. Useful stuff for parents of young children, people with impaired vision and solar panels for everyone. American Forbes visited on a Global Grad Show exhibition Dubai Design Week and found there among the riot of global projects and large-scale five brilliant …
Read More »“A genius or an alien”: it reveals main signs of the earth aliens
The researchers made a surprising discovery about the representatives of extraterrestrial civilizations. An American researcher brad Steiger has made a most unexpected discovery in the history of modern medicine. He was able to learn the traces left by the representatives of other civilizations. And the result shocked him – it …
Read More »Almost genius: Music from the movie “blade Runner 2049”
Well, we got fans of science fiction. In rolling out the picture of Denis Villeneuve’s “blade Runner 2049”, which is set 30 years after the events of the original Blade Runner. Judging by how highly rated this movie a colleague of Pavlov, in his review of “hot pursuit” immediately after …
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