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15 hours ago · US fast food chain Chick-fil-A has revealed the locations of its first UK restaurants. There will be sites in London, Liverpool and Leeds, plus two in Belfast, as part of a £74m investment. Read ...
8 hours ago · Sri Lanka’s Kamindu Mendis became the fastest Asian batter to five Test hundreds after scoring a century against New Zealand in the second Test on Friday. The 25-year-old broke the record previously held by Pakistan’s Fawad Alam who got to the five-hundred mark in 22 innings.
15 hours ago · A slang term for a baseball record that is disputed in popular opinion (i.e., unofficially) because of a perception that the record holder had an unfair advantage in attaining the record. It implies that the record requires a footnote explaining the purportedly unfair advantage, with the asterisk being a symbol commonly used in typography to call out footnotes.
15 hours ago · Garage rock (sometimes called garage punk or '60s punk) is a raw and energetic style of rock music that flourished in the mid-1960s, most notably in the United States and Canada, and has experienced a series of subsequent revivals. The style is characterized by basic chord structures played on electric guitars and other instruments, sometimes ...
15 hours ago · Hutchinson —. Pence —. Ramaswamy —. Scott —. Suarez —. Our average includes all candidates that FiveThirtyEight considers “major.”. Candidates with insufficient polling data are not displayed in the averages. In November 2023, we made changes to the way we calculate our polling averages. Read the full methodology here.
15 hours ago · Rock is a broad genre of popular music that originated in the United States, but also in United Kingdom, in the late 1950s and early 1960s, developing a lot of subgenres, including heavy metal and punk rock. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, a style that drew directly from the genres of blues, rhythm and blues, and from country ...
15 hours ago · Battle of Appomattox Court House. Ulysses S. Grant (born Hiram Ulysses Grant; [ b ] April 27, 1822 – July 23, 1885) was the 18th president of the United States, serving from 1869 to 1877. As commanding general, Grant led the Union Army to victory in the American Civil War in 1865. Grant was born in Ohio and graduated from West Point in 1843.
