Potential world-record mako shark caught on rod and reel
As a local fly fishing guide and fishing show host who has specialized in taking clients to catch and release mako sharks, Conway Bowman has mixed views on the recent potential world-record mako...
View ArticleShark jumps in boat, stuns New Jersey anglers
Story Highlights Average mako shark is 10 feet long, 130 to 300 pounds, Florida Museum of Natural History saysThey are the fastest shark species and can leap 30 feet into the airIn the Atlantic, they...
View ArticleBig mako shark caught off Calif. could be record
HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. — News that a sport-fisherman reeled in — and kept — a potentially record-setting mako shark off the Southern California coast earlier this week is making waves with...
View ArticleBig mako shark caught off California could be record but conservationists...
Updated: June 6, 2013 2:28AM HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. — News that a sport-fisherman reeled in — and kept — a potentially record-setting mako shark off the Southern California coast earlier this week...
View ArticleDStv highlights - June 11, 2013
• Rio, M-Net Movies Dramas & Romance, 19.00 When Blu, a domesticated macaw, meets independent Jewel, he goes on an adventure to Rio de Janeiro with this bird of his dreams. • Our Queen, BBC...
View ArticleExtreme fishing: from Vladimir Putin to Robson Green, sport at its most macho
Angling used to be about mystery and tranquillity. Now it's about landing the biggest river monster you can battle from the depths, and it's becoming a big global business, too Jeremy Wade, the...
View ArticleMysteries of Makos
Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based sportfishing captain reeled in a mako shark topping 1,000 pounds – one of half a dozen such trophy-sized fish he’d caught this summer. “This year has been a...
View ArticleGetty Explores Queen Victoria's Lifelong Relationship with Photography in...
(Source: J Paul Getty Museum) November 19, 2013 Getty Explores Queen Victoria's Lifelong Relationship with Photography in Upcoming Exhibtion Exhibition Includes Major Loans from Royal Collection Trust...
View ArticleIceland’s Game of Thrones tour gives us chills
MOVE over, New Zealand, there’s now a cooler location where fantasy television fans can get their “set-jetting” fix. The Game of Thrones: Behind The Wall tour takes tourists to visit the crashing...
View ArticleSwordfish Impales, Kills Fisherman In Hawaii
Randy Llanes, 47, of Kailua-Kona, spotted the swordfish swimming in the back area of Honokohau harbor, close to the DLNR Division of Boating and Ocean Recreation (DOBOR) harbor office. According to...
View ArticleMan in court over defaced portrait of British queen
June 14: A campaigner for fathers' rights to access to their children appeared in a London court today accused of defacing a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II. Electrician Tim Haries, 41, from Doncaster...
View ArticleRoyal visits: Handshakes with Sinn Féin symbolise restoration and reconciliation
By Chris Page BBC News NI Political Correspondent 21 May 2015 From the section Northern Ireland The Queen shook hands with Martin McGuinness during her visit to Northern Ireland in 2012 In 1953,...
View ArticleIceland's landscape has an otherworldly feel
Earthquakes, eruptions, even the remnants of a hurricane — it’s just another day in Iceland. “We never promise the weather,” said our guide, Hakon Oskarsson. “In Iceland, we never promise good weather”...
View ArticleSouth Florida outdoors notebook
Snakehead tournament: JD's Custom Baits has its final Snakehead Round Up of 2013 from safe light-2 p.m. Sept. 14 out of Veterans Memorial Park in Margate. Entry fee is $20 per team or individual. The...
View ArticleIt’s time of year for fishing and its pleasures
Anyone can be a fisherman in May, Ernest Hemingway observed. In Ohio, that’s true only next Saturday and Sunday, when citizens aren’t required to possess a license to fish. All the other days of the...
View ArticleRecognition for a tireless Indigenous Rights Campaigner (Amnesty...
(Source: Amnesty International Australia) Amnesty International Campaigner and long-time Indigenous rights activist Rodney Dillon has been recognised for his tireless work at a presentation in...
View ArticleIslamic State takes sledgehammer, drills to Iraqi history
Militants attack ancient artefacts with sledgehammers. Photo: AP 'Jihadi John' named as Mohammed Emwazi from London Islamic State now holding 250 Christians in Syria: activists Irbil: Ultra-radical...
View Article5 Essential Ice Fishing Facts: New Series “Ice Holes” Premieres Tonight!
Summertime is here, and many Americans are going out on boats or casting off the side of piers to nab a bigger and better catch than last year. But while seasonal anglers may prefer the warmer months,...
View ArticleMonday, June 15
FREE TO AIR American Restoration, 7Mate, 8.30pm This low-budget branch of the observational documentary genre has taken us...
View ArticleTony Souza is King of San Diego Bay
POINT LOMA Tony Souza has fished from some of the world’s most dangerous fishing boats, including a crab boat off Alaska, the kind featured in the hit TV show “Deadliest Catch.” “What you see on that...
View ArticleTV highlights 10/01/2014
Jamie And Jimmy's Friday Night Feast | Robson's Extreme Fishing Challenge | Kangaroo Dundee | Italy Unpacked | Born To Be Wild | The Weight Of The Nation | Live At The Electric | Basketball: Brooklyn...
View ArticleSouth Florida outdoors calendar
Sept. 14: JD's Custom Baits has its final Snakehead Round Up of 2013 from safe light-2 p.m. out of Veterans Memorial Park in Margate. Entry fee is $20 per team or individual. The biggest snakehead wins...
View ArticleOur Queen Series 1 Ep 1
With unique access to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, her family, her staff, her prime ministers and her palaces during the triumphal Diamond Jubilee year, Our Queen is an enthralling study of the...
View ArticleRoyal Mail is honoured to mark the 60th anniversary of the Coronation of Her...
(Source: Royal Mail Holdings plc) This special stamp issue is a series of six celebrating royal portraiture on the anniversary of the coronation The Coronation issue includes a stamp featuring a...
View Article‘American Restoration’ comes to Sound Board
Maureen Feighan, The Detroit News 12:18 a.m. EDT June 10, 2015 Expert restorer Rick Dale and wife Kelly.(Photo: PRA Creativa) It was the weirdest restoration request Rick Dale had ever gotten. A man...
View ArticleDStv highlights - June 20, 2014
• Mustang Millionaire, Nat Geo Wild, 18.00 Horse trainers come from across the country to compete in the Mustang Million competition. They have to not only tame a wild mustang, but turn it into a...
View ArticleBack-in-time Jubilee Bridge reopens this week (Derbyshire Dales District...
(Source: Derbyshire Dales District Council) Monday, 21 July 2014 11:19 Matlock Bath's Jubilee Bridge will re-open on Wednesday (23 July) exactly the way it looked when first opened in 1887 to celebrate...
View ArticleQueen's heirlooms valued by Antiques Roadshow experts
It was her second TV set visit in two days - but this one seemed much more suited to her style. Just a day after spurning the chance to sit on the famous Iron Throne, Her Majesty revealed she is a huge...
View ArticleEgypt exhibits artefacts that survived uprising
Nearly 30 ancient Egyptian artefacts that narrowly survived the Arab Spring uprising in Cairo in 2011 have gone on display in the city. The exhibition, entitled Destruction and...
View ArticleCIMA Unveils Second Queen’s Jubilee Commemorative Coin (Cayman Islands...
(Source: Cayman Islands Monetary Authority) Obverse Reverse (Grand Cayman - Friday, 31 May 2013) - Just in time for the 60th anniversary of the Coronation of Her Royal Majesty Queen Elizabeth II on 2...
View ArticleAMERICAN PICKERS To Film In Ohio (Toledo Regional Chamber of Commerce)
(Source: Toledo Regional Chamber of Commerce) Date ArticleType 8/3/2015 General AMERICAN PICKERS To Film In Ohio AMERICAN PICKERS To Film In Ohio Ohio is excited to welcome Mike Wolfe, Frank Fritz and...
View ArticleThe Queen in numbers: 60 facts and figures about Elizabeth II
1 Some time on Wednesday, the Queen will become Britain’s longest-reigning monarch, overtaking her great-great-grandmother Victoria by reaching 23,226 days, 16 hours and 24 minutes on the throne. 2 The...
View ArticleIn Pictures: 1953 Coronation artefacts to be displayed
For the journey from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Abbey, the Queen wore the Diamond Diadem, which was made by royal jewellers Rundell, Bridge & Rundell in 1820 for George IV’s coronation. The...
View ArticleMako Shark Jumps 12 Feet Out Of Water As Fishermen Flee
The clip was recorded off the coast of California, according to the Telegraph, and it shows a group of anglers as they unexpectedly square off against a large mako shark. As the footage begins, the...
View ArticleRobson Green's favourite TV
The actor and globe-trotting angler on his televisual big fish and small fry...
View ArticleBob McNally's Outdoors Outlook
BEST BET Crescent Lake, near Crescent City, has been excellent for large crappies with some fish well over 2 pounds. Cool weather is best, and daybreak fishing has been most productive for anglers...
View ArticleBank of Canada Unveils and Issues Commemorative $20 Bank Note (Bank of Canada)
(Source: Bank of Canada) At an official ceremony at Rideau Hall, the Bank of Canada today unveiled and issued a special commemorative $20 bank note honouring Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. As of this...
View ArticleThe other records Queen Elizabeth II has broken
By Daniel Rosney Newsbeat reporter From the topic Life 09/09/15 Queen Elizabeth II is now the longest reigning monarch in British history. The previous record was held by her great-great-grandmother,...
View ArticleThrill to be afloat that damp day
Floating through London ... Gordon Robson represented Australia at the Queen's coronation 60 years ago. Photo: Jay Cronan Sixty years ago today 20-year old Gordon Robson ''floated'' for 20 kilometres...
View ArticleDStv highlights - January 15, 2013
l Big Wednesdays, Disney Channel, 17.00 Disney Channel gives fans a chance to catch the latest brand new episodes of their favourite shows. This includes the latest episodes of shows like Mako...
View ArticleAntiques Roadshow; The Real Noah’s Ark: Secret History review – the actual...
… but after a couple of comments she lets the punters get on with trying not to look too disappointed by the valuation of their family treasures...
View ArticleTut, tut! Egyptian Museum takes 'beard-gate' on the chin
The Egyptian Museum in Cairo has admitted one of its greatest treasures, the mask of King Tutankhamun, had been crudely glued back together after being damaged, but insisted it could be restored to its...
View ArticleEncounters at National Museum of Australia: our Elgin Marbles come home
Shayne Williams' mother Iris never read a history book. Yet she always knew about the 50 or more fishing spears and the shield that Captain Cook's men stole from her Aboriginal clan at Kurnell in...
View ArticleDStv highlights - August 14, 2013
• Guest Star, Trace Urban, 15.45 A singer, composer and pianist John Legend is an all-around performer. His music, a combination of gospel, R&B and hip hop, is incredibly popular. The G.O.O.D....
View ArticleNot all greens good, discovers showpiece lake - Algae & weeds swamp Jayanti...
Neglected river Subernarekha and so-called pampered reservoir Jayanti Sarovar are now both looking similar in Jamshedpur. Like Subernarekha, the citys sprawling 20-acre aquatic landmark Jubilee Lake...
View ArticleDStv highlights - March 7, 2014
• Zone-In: Tumi, Channel O, 19.00 Rob the Church is Tumi Molekane’s first album since leaving Tumi and the Volume. It saw the poet and MC hit the mark with the video Hello Kitty and other great songs....
View ArticleDStv highlights - June 25, 2013
• Jackpot, Nat Geo Wild, 18.00 The Alaska Department of Fish and Game has opened the season for the fifth day in a row. Captain Dan’s fishing mojo has been missing all season so he calls in his 11-year...
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