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Snow gates were closed overnight on the A93 Braemar to Glenshee and on the B974 at Cairn O'Mount and the A939 at Cock Bridge, with Police Scotland urging drivers to avoid these areas.

From BBC • Jan. 6, 2026

“Bovary,” based Gustave Flaubert’s 1857 novel “Madame Bovary,” opens next April 12 with music by Harold Noben, a libretto by Michael De Cock and a cast that includes Ana Naqe and Oleg Volkov.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 20, 2024

Sybil Cock, from the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, said of the decision to remove the flags: "I can't think of any evidence that any harm has come of them and I don't think they encourage Islamophobia."

From BBC • Mar. 15, 2024

One day at the market in Quibdó, the region’s capital, Cock Duque came across a stall where an Emberá woman was selling a fruit he’d never seen before.

From Science Magazine • Jun. 14, 2023

A family of alchemists at work, an engraving by Philip Galle, after a painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, published by Hieronymus Cock, c.1558.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton