By Gage McKinney | Special to The Union
No one will toss pasties this year. The Cornish flag won’t rise above city hall and the choir won’t sing the Cornish anthem “Trelawny.”
As it has on other events, the pandemic has stamped canceled on this year’s St. Piran’s Day, Grass Valley’s quirky celebration named for Cornwall’s patron saint. But be assured, the Cornish are still here.
In their Celtic homeland, in the southwest corner of Britain, the Cornish mined tin since the Bronze Age and copper for nearly as long. They came to California not for riches but for a better life.
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View taken from the north showing the construction of Coventry Cathedral including the erection of a ramp for the foundation stone laying ceremony, shuttering to the assembly area and choir practice room, and concreting to altar and nave slab
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Tuesday 27 October 2015 - 11:08am
File: Mxit social media messaging platform.
by Stuart Thomas, Memeburn
Mxit as we know it is dead. The company announced on Friday that it had shut down its commercial operations and would be transferring its IP to the Reach Trust, its charitable arm. The news had an air of inevitability about it we predicted that this would be the direction Mxit would take back in February but it’s a far cry from the hype that surrounded the company just four years ago when Alan Knott-Craig Jr acquired it from Naspers and founder Herman Heunis in a deal rumoured to be worth around R500-million.