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PHILIPPOS Andreou of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg – or Prince Philip for short – could so easily have become a drug-addled Eurotrash wastrel. We see it all the time in magazines like Hello! — stupid people with stupid names and stupid titles sitting on their stupid boats ­surrounded by a bunch of stupid girls and some rolled-up bank notes. * Read our live blog for the very latest news on Prince Philip's death ... T’was ever thus. There was some Eurotrash guy in the Sixties who remembered, at two in the morning, during a coke-fuelled poker game in Paris that he was due to play in a tennis tournament in Monaco the next day. So he ran out, leaped into his Ferrari and got 200 yards before he crashed into a tree and died. That’s the world Prince Philip is from. He was born in Corfu but lived in France before going to a British public school where it must have taken 20 minutes to read out his name in assembly. His dad was the king of both Greece and … [Read more...] about You never saw Prince Philip slouch… he was the human spirit level

The biblical story of the Passion of Christ tells of how Jesus of Nazareth was condemned to death and nailed to the cross at the orders of Pontius Pilate, the Roman governor of Judea. Much of the story is based on accounts in the Bible's New Testament and not all of it is historically verified. Did Jesus Christ even exist? Little is known about those ancient days from a purely historical perspective. Even the method of Christ's execution — crucifixion — is hardly documented at all as a widespread punishment in antiquity. Gunnar Samuelson, a historian at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden, studied all the Greek, Latin and Hebrew/Aramaic sources he could find to learn more about crucifixion. The research into his doctoral thesis in 2010 took him all the way back into antiquity — from Greek philosopher Homer into the 1st century CE. But Samuelson found that there was hardly any recorded evidence of crucifixion as a common method of execution from that period. But … [Read more...] about Archaeology and Bible experts work together to explain the past

PAIGNE SPIRANAC says she is 'missing Tiger Woods' at this year's Masters. The golfing major concludes this evening at Augusta with the famous green jacket up for grabs. Hideki Matsuyama goes into the final round with a four-stroke lead over the chasing pack after a stunning 65 on Saturday. But there is no Woods at this year's tournament following his horror car crash in February . The five-time Masters champ, 45, smashed his SUV into a tree driving at around 87mph in a 45mph zone . He broke both bones in his lower left leg in two places and suffered a serious ankle injury, and was in hospital in Los Angeles for three weeks before being allowed to return to his home in Florida. The golfing legend is on the road to recovery now but is forced to keep up with the tournament's climax on the TV. And American former golfer Spiranac , now a social media celebrity, took to Twitter on Saturday to express her sadness at Tiger's absence - as well as providing … [Read more...] about Paige Spiranac ‘missing Tiger Woods’ as Masters gets set for final day without its biggest star after horror car crash