No substitutes for fireworks in celebrating Lunar New Year

Beijing (MindaNews) – For the Chinese, welcoming a new year would not be complete without lighting a firecracker, whether to ward off evil spirits and shoo away bad luck from the previous year or just for the “bang” of it. Since the invention of the gunpowder in China centuries ago, the use of fireworks and other types of firecrackers during festivals and other special occasions have been ...

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A History of our Galaxy's Fireworks! [Starts With A Bang]

"When I had satisfied myself that no star of that kind had ever shone before, I was led into such perplexity by the unbelievability of the thing that I began to doubt the faith of my own eyes." - Tycho Brahe When we look out at galaxies throughout the Universe, we find that every so often -- about once per century -- a bright star flares up so brightly that it can, for a brief amount of time ...

Error-strewn Scots made to pay

"If they don't beat England today when will they?" offered one noted Scottish journalist ahead of kick off at Murrayfield, seemingly convinced that the odds were stacked in the hosts' favour

Artemis Fowl author Eoin Colfer backs Mirror's We Love Reading campaign

WHY read to your kids? For that matter why read at all? Books are dinosaurs and words are their ­fossilised bones, aren’t they?