Tech

X-rays reveal censored portions of Marie Antoinette’s letters to Swedish count

Enlarge / 1775 portrait of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, by Jean-Baptiste-André Gautier-Dagoty. X-ray analysis of letters between the queen and a Swedish count revealed words that had been blacked out, rendering them illegible—until now. (credit: Public domain) Most people associate Marie Antoinette with the affair of the diamond necklace, “Let them eat cake!” and […]

Sport

A NATIONAL DISASTER: How wild, reckless spending sent The National, this country’s first and last sports daily, to an early grave — from someone who was there

Born on death row, The National Sports Daily perished of its own hand 30 years ago today, June 13, 1991. Read more…