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Auroras (borealis in the north, astralis in the south) are truly magical. Can you imagine seeing them each night? Surely the world would be a better place! Read more: https://twistedsifter.com/videos/compilation-of-people-seeing-aurora-borealis-northern-lights/
Read More“I never thought a few months ago when I was applying for Christmas temp work, minimum wage work, that I wouldn’t need it because I’d be an MP by Christmas,” she said. Image caption Jo Swinson in 2004 Baby of the House Affectionate name given to the youngest MP in Parliament, a spin-off of Father of the House Previous holders of the title include Jo Swinson, David Lammy, Stephen Dorrell and Charles Kennedy Unlike Father of the House, the title of Baby of the House brings no extra duties or…
Read MoreFor the third time in the 2019 season, Red Bull have broken the pit stop record. In the Formula 1 Brazilian GP, they serviced Max Verstappen on the first of his three stops in an amazing 1.82 seconds, shaving six hundredths off their own record set at Hockenheim. It also means that they have wrapped up the DHL Fastest Pit Stop Award for this year. With one race to go, they are now 52 points ahead of second-placed Williams. The stop in Brazil was their eighth DHL Fastest pit stop…
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Read MoreOver the last two years, gamma-ray observatories have spotted something incredible. Astronomers detected the brightest light ever recorded coming from the universe, reaching about 100 billion times the energy of a single photon of visible light. This incredible light was produced by gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), a rare cosmic event that features a short and incredibly powerful explosion. In three new papers published in Nature (here, here, and here) researchers detail the observations of two of these events: GRB 180720B and GRB 190114C. The 300+ scientists in the international collaboration detected…
Read MoreThe BBC world affairs editor on a charismatic wit and gifted poet who elevated British life with his televisual panache He came into my life in the same way, I imagine, as he came into everyone elses: with a joke and a certain amount of bounce, but also with a degree of authority that meant you took him seriously, even while you were laughing. Jesus, what do you do here put on Wagner? It was Clives, and my, last year at Cambridge University, and I was living in a medieval…
Read MoreNew Zealand IDs 2 bodies not found after volcano eruption CBC.ca Read more: www.cbc.ca
Read MoreProgress is inevitable. It touches upon every sphere of our life, and education is no exception. Students today are very different from those who were sitting in the same classrooms 10, 15, or 20 years ago. That is why the information they are taught must be presented in a different way. The use of videos during the learning process is essential. And there’s more than one reason why. In this article, we’ll prove that visual support can do miracles. In 2015, around 84% of American parents agreed that school tech…
Read MoreThe billionaire is controversially dodging the early voting states amid a $100m ad blitz but some see a wider boost for the party House Democrats received some welcome news on Wednesday: Michael Bloomberg was coming to their rescue once again. The former New York mayor announced he would spend $10m to protect vulnerable congressmen and women who have been on the receiving end of Republican attacks over their support for the impeachment inquiry. Coming a little over a year after Democrats took back the House, partly thanks to a $100m…
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Read More2019 has been a long year, and personally, I’m ready for a nap. Between work, maintaining a social life, and staying caught up on seven different Real Housewives franchises, there isn’t much room in my brain our brains for miscellaneous info. Because of that, random pop culture happenings tend to leave our collective consciousness as fast as they enter (except Miley and Liam’s breakup to approximately seven million celeb weddings, but that’s not all that happened in 2019. This year came with lots of random moments in pop culture, from relationships to…
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Read MoreWashington (CNN)As the Democratic-led US House moves toward an impeachment vote on President Donald Trump, attention is turning to the likely Senate trial and how forcefully Chief Justice John Roberts might operate as he presides over the chamber. Senators are quarreling over whether to call witnesses and which ones. Schumer has told Majority Leader Mitch McConnell that he wants at least four witnesses to testify, including Bolton and acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney. Republican senators have suggested, alternatively, that they may want to call Hunter Biden, son…
Read MoreRachel Lopez has dedicated her Instagram account to documenting the colorful and decorative roofs of taxis in Mumbai. From kitschy variations of fruit, to dizzying floral patterns and everything in between; it’s a nice little surprise to see what you will find if you remember to look up while on your way from point A to point B. Lopez shared her first taxi ceiling shot in April of 2017, and since then she has taken hundreds more for her ever-growing Instagram following. Below you will find a gallery of our…
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