John Wildman, who died OTD in 1693, served as Postmaster General of the UK after being one of the greatest speculators in the forfeited lands of royalists, clergy, and Roman Catholics cromwell-intl.com/travel/uk/lo… #travel #England #history
A terrified woman unbuckled her seatbelt in the middle of a parasailing session high up in the air, and plummeted to her death -- and the whole nightmare was
If you take a walk along the coast, near Caleta Camarones in northern Chile, near an old archeological site called Camarones 15, it is hard not to spot evidence of the mummies. Cloth, rope, hair, tiny fragments of bones, and pieces of wood, an item that is nowhere to be seen growing anywhere nearby, but which the Chinchorro people used to keep their mummies intact like little dolls. The Chinchorro mummies are considered the oldest mummies in the world. Thousands of years older than the Egyptian mummies. And these were not pharaohs. They were everyday folks looking to hold on to what was most dear to them: The people they loved.
Seven thousand years ago, the Chinchorro people, along the Pacific coast of South America, began to mummify their dead. Their bodies remain hidden in the desert. This is episode 41 of Stories of Resistance.
Cergy, June 2nd 2025 – SPIE, the independent European leader in multi-technical services in the areas of energy and communications, announces the acquisition
Hordes of Spanish protesting overtourism could be crying over their placards as new figures show holiday bookings have soared by more than 10% in the past
"TSMC Arizona" can be found in a lot of places where Motorola Semiconductor Sector used to be, and it's been there decades before the Taiwan/China conflict of recent vintage. As I recall, TSMC took over the SPS HQ on 52nd St. scant months after Motorola abandoned it.
In the semiconductor industry, where technological progress is measured in nanometers, career advancement follows a distinctive trajectory. At TSMC Arizona,
Motorola SPS also had engineering programs running at Arizona State University and it wouldn't surprise me in the least if TSMC simply slid into Motorola's old saddle there too, though I can't speak for AU.
NATO has reaffirmed its commitment to maintaining stability in the Western Balkans during recent high-level visits by key officials. The discussions focused
The Church of Albania organized a symposium at the Cultural Center of the Resurrection Cathedral to commemorate the 1700th anniversary of the First Ecumenical
People attend a protest organised by ProGlas, the Serbian pro-democracy movement, amid opposition claims of major election law violations in Belgrade city and
@blogdiva @paco I'm... a little afraid to ask about some of those, lol.
Presumably not Halo or League of Legends given its 2004 origins though. Not sure if Halo existed yet, but if it did I don't think it would have been so well known.
@blogdiva @paco Well, if I'm being honest, I have to admit that I really really dislike Halo and all the media around it. It just struck a lot of things wrong with me.
Sky might be tinged slightly pink here outside Boston, but no noticeable aurora, especially here where my north horizon is really over-lit. kp is at 8 right now, so if we were going to see auroras, it'd be now...
People watch a performance by the Italian aerobatic squad Frecce Tricolori during an air show in Ladispoli, Rome, Italy, June 1, 2025. (Photo by Alberto
A 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Hiroo, Japan, early Monday morning local time, one day after another 6.1-magnitude quake rocked the country.
UPDATE: The CEO of the moving company the man who viciously attacked a trans woman in NASHVILLE worked for comments on our Instagram page saying the employee has been terminated and they are assisting the police👇🏽 Here was the post: www.instagram.com/reel/DKX_cXF...
5,812 likes, 758 comments - thetnholler on June 1, 2025: "NASHVILLE: A trans woman shares video of being viciously attacked at Extra Space Storage facility by a man she says worked for a moving company.
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