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  2. The Sun (United Kingdom) - Wikipedia

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    The Sun is a British tabloid newspaper, published by the News Group Newspapers division of News UK, itself a wholly owned subsidiary of Lachlan Murdoch 's News Corp. [11] [12] It was founded as a broadsheet in 1964 as a successor to the Daily Herald, and became a tabloid in 1969 after it was purchased by its current owner. [13]

  3. List of solar eclipses visible from the British Isles - Wikipedia

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    This is a partial list of solar eclipses visible from Britain and Ireland between AD 1 – AD 2091.. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partially obscuring Earth's view of the Sun. Below is a complete list of total and annular eclipses visible anywhere within the modern extent of the United Kingdom between AD 1 and AD 2090 and a ...

  4. List of solar eclipses in the 20th century - Wikipedia

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    t. e. This is a list of solar eclipses in the 20th century. During the period 1901 to 2000 there were 228 solar eclipses of which 78 were partial, 73 were annular (two non-central ), 71 were total (three non-central) and 6 were hybrids. The greatest number of eclipses in one year was five, in 1935, and one month, July 2000, had two eclipses.

  5. Coverage of the Hillsborough disaster by The Sun - Wikipedia

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    Coverage of the 1989 Hillsborough disaster by the British tabloid The Sun led to the newspaper's decline in Liverpool and the broader Merseyside region, with organised boycotts against it. The disaster occurred at a football match between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest. Ninety-seven Liverpool supporters were crushed to death, and several ...

  6. List of newspapers in the United Kingdom by circulation

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    Today, the UK's most highly circulating paper is the free sheet Metro whilst other popular titles include tabloids such as The Sun and Daily Mirror, middle market papers such as the Daily Mail and Daily Express and broadsheet newspapers such as The Times, The Daily Telegraph, the Financial Times and The Guardian .

  7. Seasons in the Sun - Wikipedia

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    Seasons in the Sun. " Seasons in the Sun " is an English-language adaptation of the 1961 Belgian song " Le Moribond " ("The Dying Man") by singer-songwriter Jacques Brel [2] with lyrics rewritten in 1963 by singer-poet Rod McKuen [3] portraying a dying man's farewell to his loved ones. It became a worldwide hit in 1974 for singer Terry Jacks ...

  8. Sun - Wikipedia

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    Why is the Sun's corona so much hotter than the Sun's surface? (more unsolved problems in astronomy) The temperature of the photosphere is approximately 6,000 K, whereas the temperature of the corona reaches 1,000,000–2,000,000 K. The high temperature of the corona shows that it is heated by something other than direct heat conduction from the photosphere. It is thought that the energy ...

  9. Harry Cole (journalist) - Wikipedia

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    Tonbridge School. Alma mater. University of Edinburgh. Occupation. Journalist. Harry Cole (born 27 April 1986) is a British journalist who has been the political editor of The Sun since 2020, having previously been the deputy political editor of The Mail On Sunday. He studied Anthropology and Economic History at the University of Edinburgh .