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(CNN) Debris found in the western Indian Ocean on Wednesday appears to be part of a Boeing 777, the same model as Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 that disappeared in 2014, according to a source close to the investigation.
The source said there is a unique element to the Boeing 777's flaperon, a wing component, that Bo... |
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Researchers show how the judicious choice of fluid filler can suppress the turbulent flow that severely hinders the “top-kill” plugging of a blown-out oil well.
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Could Cornstarch Have Plugged BP's Oil Well?
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While you were thumbing through your Feb. 4 issue of Physical Review Letters, perhaps you noticed the article titled "Viscoelastic Suppression of Gravity-Driven Counterflow Instability."
OK, maybe not. But it was actually worth ... |
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An Iranian-British woman detained while trying to attend a men's volleyball game in Iran has been found guilty of spreading propaganda against the ruling system and sentenced to a year in prison, her lawyer said Sunday.
This 2011 photo provided by the Free Ghoncheh Campaign, shows... |
Since June 2014 my younger sister is in solitary confinement in Tehran. She was arrested for going to a men's volleyball match.
Ghoncheh is a British Iranian dual citizen. She was there to watch a game. She was arrested because of a misunderstanding.
Amnesty International has called for an Urgent Action for... |
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Newsnight spoke to Ghoncheh Ghavami's brother, Iman in September
A British-Iranian woman detained at a men's volleyball match in Iran has been sentenced to a year in prison, her lawyer says.
Ghoncheh Ghavami, 25, was found guilty of spreading anti-regim... |
An Iranian court has sentenced a British-Iranian woman to a year in jail for protesting a ban on women attending volleyball games, according to her lawyer and the semiofficial ILNA news agency.
Ghoncheh Ghavami, 25, was arrested outside Tehran's Azadi Stadium in June while taking part in a demonstration against the... |
Sen. Mark Kirk's reference Thursday to an unmarried Senate colleague and presidential candidate as a "bro with no ho" is the latest in a string of controversial remarks that figure to make an already challenging 2016 re-election bid even more difficult.
While most of Kirk's verbal gaffes have been made in speeches ... |
Sen. Lindsey Graham says he’s not “defective” because he’s single. While he’s “been close once” to marrying a woman, he’s unsure why he never did so. And he said that if voters want a John F. Kennedy-esque clan in the White House, they should look elsewhere.
“If you are looking for Camelot, I’m not your guy,” Graha... |
WASHINGTON -- Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) is a “bro with no ho,” according to his colleague, Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.).
The assessment of Graham’s love life was made during a Senate Appropriations Committee markup on Thursday and caught on a live microphone.
Listen to Kirk's comments, which come around 0:26 in t... |
Avatar SCIENCE FICTION: United States, 2009 U.S. Release Date: 2009-12-18 Running Length: 2:41 MPAA Classification: PG-13 (Violence, Nudity) Theatrical Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Cast: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang, Michelle Rodriguez, Giovanni Ribisi, Joel David Moore Director: James Cameron S... |
20th Century Fox / WETA / Reuters Actors Sam Worthington, left, and Zoe Saldana as Jake and Neytiri in Avatar
In the last shot of Avatar, someone's closed eyes snap open. That's the climax and the message of James Cameron's first fiction feature since 1997's Titanic: Look around! Embrace the movie surely the most... |
Two alternate titles come to mind when watching Avatar, the modest little indie by way of James "King of the World" Cameron: How about Runs With Na'vis, or Flies With Banshees?
The filmmaker's epic adventure - which cost upward of $230 million and, actually, happens to be great fun - is the gamer generation's answe... |
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With “Avatar” James Cameron has turned one man’s dream of the movies into a trippy joy ride about the end of life — our moviegoing life included — as we know it. Several decades in the dreaming and more than four years in the actual making, the movie is a song to the natural world that was largely prod... |
The South Dakota Department of Public Safety has decided to pull a public service campaign about safe driving because of concerns that it is a double entendre.
The campaign, “Don’t Jerk And Drive,” encouraged drivers to not jerk their steering wheel and over-correct while driving on icy roads. On the campaign’s Web... |
Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology have solved a 70 year old mystery in traffic research: an until now inexplicable jerkiness when we steer a vehicle. The discovery may lead to safety systems in cars that can correct dangerous steering movements before they occur.
The ability to predict what a driver ... |
Twenty years ago this December, James Cameron’s Titanic sailed into theaters. It was made for a then-record breaking $210 million, and proceeded to break more records at the box office with a haul that has grossed over $2 billion. It was nominated for 14 Oscars and ended up collecting 11 overall, including for best pic... |
Rose had to let go.
Two decades after the Titanic sank on the big screen, director James Cameron is still defending one of Hollywood’s most heartbreaking movie deaths.
After joking to Vanity Fair that Jack (Leonardo DiCaprio) froze to death hanging off a wooden plank clearly big enough for him and Rose (Kate Wi... |
Republican candidate for president Herman Cain makes an appearance at the iconic Cuban restaurant 'Versailles' in the Little Havana neighborhood in Miami, Florida, November 16, 2011.
Republican candidate for president Herman Cain makes an appearance at the iconic Cuban restaurant 'Versailles' in the Little Havana n... |
In another gaffe, Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain asked a crowd in Miami how to say the word “delicious” in Cuban. Most people in the Caribbean, including Cubans, speak Spanish.
“How do you say delicious in Cuban?” he asked during a campaign stop in Miami’s Little Havana.
“Delicioso,” a man replie... |
David S. Broder, 81, a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for The Washington Post and one of the most respected writers on national politics for four decades, died Wednesday at Capital Hospice in Arlington of complications from diabetes.
Mr. Broder was often called the dean of the Washington press corps - a nickname ... |
Having grown up in the Chicago area, rooting for years for the luckless Cubs and more recently for the hapless Washington Nationals, I feel particularly qualified to comment on the Obama administration's struggles to find a useful role to play in the crisis racking Egypt and the wider Arab world, let alone the blizzard... |
Donald Trump named Donald F. McGahn as White House counsel, selecting a seasoned political lawyer who could help navigate the growing scrutiny on potential conflicts of interest between the president-elect’s businesses and his incoming administration.
McGahn, a partner at the Jones Day law firm in Washington and a ... |
WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald J. Trump filled two lower-profile but influential White House staff jobs on Friday, while his high-profile candidate for secretary of housing and urban development, Ben Carson, continued to deliberate about whether to join the administration.
Mr. Trump offered the housing job thi... |
Story highlights McFarland will be the Deputy National Security Advisor
McFarland served in the Nixon, Ford and Reagan administrations
(CNN) National security analyst KT McFarland will join President-elect Donald Trump's administration as the deputy national security adviser, the transition announced Friday, al... |
Prince Louis is already a natural in front of the camera!
To mark the birth of the royal baby and to celebrate his big sister Princess Charlotte’s third birthday, proud parents Prince William and Kate Middleton shared two new photos of the siblings on Saturday.
The adorable photo of Charlotte and Louis was take... |
LONDON (AP) — Two pictures have been released documenting the early days of Britain's newest prince — and one shows Prince Louis being cuddled by three-year-old big sister Princess Charlotte.
One of the photos was snapped when Louis was just three days old. He was born April 23 and went home the same day.
The t... |
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Weeks into their government standoff at a federal wildlife refuge in eastern Oregon, a right-wing militia group's attempts to reconcile with a local Native American tribe by filming themselves rummaging through their belongings has sparked outrage.
In the three-minute YouTube video uploaded Wednesday by LaVoy Finic... |
Standoff leader posted a video of him looking through artifacts and documents from the Paiute tribe at the Malheur national wildlife refuge, sparking outrage
The militiamen stationed at a federal wildlife refuge in eastern Oregon are now rummaging through artifacts and documents of the Paiute tribe, sparking outrag... |
This weekend, Burns Paiute tribal chairperson Charlotte Roderique spoke to Indian Country Today Media Network about the status of the occupation of the Malheur Wildlife Refuge in Oregon, “We are really worried about the status of the artifacts down there.”
On Friday, the tribe delivered a letter to federal agencies... |
A malfunction during the most recent test flight of the private spacecraft SpaceShipTwo sent the vehicle hurtling out of control until its crew could stabilize the craft for a safe landing.
The issue provided some heart-stopping moments for its airborne crew and ground handlers, but also allowed the vehicle's owner... |
Las Cruces, N.M., officially joined the list of the nation’s major space centers Monday when a newly completed terminal and hangar facility was turned over to British billionaire Richard Branson and his commercial space tourism venture, Virgin Galactic.
The company aims to launch paying customers beyond Earth’s con... |
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers warned Sunday there's "mounting evidence" that the Syrian government has been using its chemical arsenal.
"I think when you look at the whole body of information over the last two years there is mounting evidence that it is probable that the Assad regime has used at... |
National Rifle Association CEO Wayne LaPierre charged on Sunday that New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's rhetoric on gun reform is "reckless" and "insane."
"He's going to find out that this is a country of the people, by the people and for the people and he can't spend enough of his [money] to try to impose his will... |
Republican strategist Karl Rove said Sunday said Democrats need to "stop scaring people" with regards to gun policies and gun control reform.
"Let's be clear about this. This is prompted by the Sandy Hook murders. Those guns were legally purchased with a background check. Let's be very careful before trampling on t... |
California Attorney General Kamala Harris said Sunday there's "no reasonable basis" for having assault weapons on city streets and that Republicans and Democrats in Washington need to get serious about finding common ground when it comes to gun laws.
"The folks in D.C. have to reject a false choice that suggests th... |
Sen. Rand Paul said Sunday that his "libertarian Republican approach" to politics could help win over young voters as well as moderates and independent voters.
"The Republican Party needs to figure out how to be bigger and I think I do bring some ideas to that. And so I talked with the Republican National Committee... |
National Rifle Association CEO Wayne LaPierre said Sunday that he'd support gun reform legislation that would "beef up the penalties" on straw purchases of firearms and illegal gun trafficking, as well as getting records of mentally ill into the national background checks system.
"We are working on a bill right now... |
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Sunday that gun-reform supporters "are going to win" in the fight for an assault weapons ban.
"While I think we are going to win this, celebrating in advance isn't the right thing to do," the mayor said on NBC's "Meet the Press." We've got to go out, we've got a lot of work ahe... |
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Sunday praised President Barack Obama's trip to the Middle East, saying "he got Palestinians and the Israelis thinking" about ways to resolve their differences.
"I think this is going to go down in history as one of the few trips that an American president has made to Israel wher... |
The mayor’s advertising blitz, which will saturate television screens in states including Ohio, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Arizona, represents by far the biggest escalation of Mr. Bloomberg’s attempts to become a one-man counterweight to the National Rifle Association in the political clash over guns.
“The N.... |
Federal customs officials have stopped more than 20,000 pairs of counterfeit luxury shoes from tip-toeing into the U.S. from China.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection Spokesman Jaime Ruiz says four shipments of fake Christian Louboutin shoes were seized Tuesday, and another shipment was seized July 27.
Ruiz say... |
If you find a pair of those trendy red-bottom heels for a deal that sounds too good to be true, it probably is.U.S. Customs and Border Protection confiscated 20,457 pairs of counterfeit Christian Louboutin shoes at the Los Angeles/Long Beach seaport.
“They label the shipments as generic shoes when, in fact, they’re... |
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President Donald Trump ordered the creation of a task force to review business practices at the United States Postal Service, a move that could affect one of the president’s favorite corporate targets: Amazon.com Inc.
“The USPS is on an u... |
"Only fools, or worse, are saying that our money losing Post Office makes money with Amazon. THEY LOSE A FORTUNE, and this will be changed."
President Donald Trump took a swing at Amazon once more on April 2, blaming the digital retailer for the United States Postal Service’s financial woes.
"Only fools, or wor... |
Starbucks Corp. is taking its Evolution Fresh juice nationwide and stocking a new line of snack bars called Evolution Harvest through a partnership with retailer Whole Foods Market Inc.
By the end of the year, Starbucks said Tuesday, it expects Evolution Fresh to be in about 8,000 U.S. cafes and grocery stores.
... |
NEW YORK Starbucks Coffee Company, which has exported coffee beans from Colombia for more than four decades, plans to open its first café in the Andean country in 2014 and serve only locally-grown coffee.
The world's biggest coffee chain hopes to open at least 50 coffee shops in cities across Colombia in the next f... |
After buying coffee from Colombia for almost half a century, Starbucks Corp. (SBUX) is finally opening a cafe there, part of its accelerating expansion in Latin America.
The world’s largest coffee-shop operator will open a cafe in Bogota in the first half of next year and then five more locations later in 2014, Chi... |
Screenshot of Shanna Riddle Vandewege's Facebook page
FORT WORTH -- Police carried out evidence and wrapped police tape around the home where the 36-year-old Shanna Vandewege and her infant son Diederik were found dead Thursday night.
Police confirmed they were investigating the deaths as homicides. Accordi... |
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A man whose wife and infant son were found slain last week in the family’s north Fort Worth home has been jailed in Colorado and is now accused in their deaths.
Fort Worth homicide detectives obtained a capital murder warrant Thursday for Craig Alan Vandewege, hours after the 35-year-old Fort Worth man was arrested... |
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At the time the tablet was written, more than 3,500 years ago, Babylon (shown here as seen in 1932) Babylon was one of the most important cities in southern Mesopotamia, controlling an empire in the region. It's possible the writer of the tablet's riddles lived within this kingdom. The tablet's current location is unkn... |
Around 1,500 BCE, a student in ancient Babylon inscribed six riddles on a tablet. 3,500 years later, these proto-jokes lose a lot in the translation, but one thing's for sure: the Babylonians are saying something about your mother.
The tablet in question was first discovered back in 1976 by an archaeologist named J... |
3500 years ago, a student in Babylon did the inevitable and carved jokes about "beer," "intercourse," and "your mother" into a tablet. Now researchers have done the inevitable and published an elevated dissection of said jokes in a reputable journal. In recognition of the great future minds who will a millenia from now... |
Luckiest man on earth? It's A-Rod On 75th anniversary of Lou's speech, Alex is Yank with most to be thankful for
NEW YORK -- On the day the Yankees commemorated the 75th anniversary of the famous Lou Gehrig speech, it is clear Alex Rodriguez is truly the luckiest man on the face of the Earth ... Earth ... Earth.
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"Blood Sport" is about far more than Alex Rodriguez, Biogenesis, and PED's. It's also about a culture in sports that promotes cheating for the sake of self-aggrandisement and the almighty dollar. Thoroughly researched by authors Tim Elfrink and Gus Garcia-Roberts, "Blood Sport" offers a blow-by-blow description of the ... |
The following is an excerpt from Blood Sport: Alex Rodriguez, Biogenesis and the Quest to End Baseball's Steroid Era, by Tim Elfrink and Gus Garcia-Roberts. Published by arrangement with Dutton, a member of Penguin Group (USA) LLC. Copyright 2014 by Tim Elfrink and Gus Garcia-Roberts.
This story appears in the July... |
President Barack Obama's nominee to be general counsel of the Central Intelligence Agency indicated at her confirmation hearing Tuesday that she opposes giving members of Congress access to Justice Department legal memoranda that govern CIA activities such as interrogation and drone strikes.
The nominee who rebuffe... |
“If this is true,” Mr. Udall said during a hearing on the nomination of Caroline D. Krass to be the C.I.A.’s top lawyer, “this raises fundamental questions about why a review the C.I.A. conducted internally years ago — and never provided to the committee — is so different from the C.I.A.’s formal response to the commit... |
The young Vanier sex-trade worker thought she was going to die in the backseat of Jacques Rouschop’s pickup truck.
Jacques (Porkchop) Rouschop was a regular client, but this time was different, the 26-year-old woman told court at the career thief’s rape trial on Monday. It was the summer of 2013 — she doesn’t recal... |
The lawyer defending an alleged choker-rapist told a jury on Thursday that Jacques Rouschop couldn’t physically have committed the vicious sex crimes he’s accused of because his hernia “makes it too painful to have sex from behind, his stomach is too large and his penis is way, way too small.”
The first defence wit... |
Jacques “Porkchop” Rouschop has waited almost three years to defend himself against rape-and-choking charges, and starting Thursday morning, an Ottawa jury will start hearing defence evidence — including the “remarkably small” size of his penis — that he hopes will finally clear his name.
Rouschop, 44, is on trial ... |
Bed bugs are bed bad. People’s entire lives have been overturned by these (increasingly common) blood-sucking, itch-inducing pests. Thankfully, they’re not disease vectors, but I would rather not share my home with a roommate who wants to eat me, thank you very much.
Scientists have noticed an expansion in bed bug ... |
In the absence of a human host, bed bugs were twice as likely to aggregate on bags containing soiled clothes compared to bags containing clean clothes. Contrary to our predictions, elevated CO 2 did not affect this result. We did not observe bed bugs aggregating on the side of the room with the CO 2 source, but instead... |
Bed bugs love your stinky laundry. Here’s how to keep them away
On the surface, bed bugs seem ill-equipped for world domination: They can’t fly, jump, or swim; they can survive only on blood; and the world’s foremost apex predators—humans—want them all dead. Yet the parasitic arthropods have recently undergone what... |
AP Photo Hillary in bold: Hillvetica typeface goes viral
Hillary Clinton has been a a first lady, a senator, and a diplomat, but this week she transformed into a whole new political form: a font.
Graphic designer Rick Wolff designed a font based on the newly-launched Hillary for America campaign’s logo, a blue ... |
Thanks to Hillary Clinton's new logo for her 2016 presidential bid, graphic design is at the forefront of the American political conversation.
The fate of the United States will clearly all come down to branding (and candidates' takes on the issues, I guess). That's why designer Rick Wolff came up with Hillvetica, ... |
On Monday, graphic designer Rick Wolff created a typeface he calls "Hillary Bold" or "Hillvetica." It uses the same (weird) look and feel of the logo from the Hillary Clinton campaign for president, which became (in)famous shortly after her campaign went public on Sunday.
In short order, people started applying the... |
Police said a child at the center of an Amber Alert was found safe in Maine early Friday morning.
Click to view News 9's report.
The alert was issued after police said Jeremiah Grant, 33, of South Berwick, Maine, abducted his 18-month-old son from the boy's home in Somersworth Thursday afternoon.
Somerswort... |
Authorities in Somersworth, New Hampshire, cancelled an Amber Alert issued Thursday night after a father who allegedly abducted his son was arrested in Maine early Friday morning. (Published Friday, July 17, 2015)
Police in Somersworth, New Hampshire, have cancelled an Amber Alert issued Thursday night for a missin... |
Malachi Grant (Somersworth Police)
SOMERSWORTH, NH (CBS) – Police in Somersworth, New Hampshire have issued an Amber Alert for a one-year-old boy who was abducted Thursday afternoon.
Police say Malachi Grant was taken by his father Jeremiah Grant from Beacon Street. Police say Grant, 33, took the child from his... |
The hardest blow yet against Newt Gingrich comes this afternoon from Ron Paul's campaign, which dropped this lengthy, scathing video documenting Gingrich's ideological deviations and ties to the D.C. influence trade:
Featured in the video: Gingrich's comments about Paul Ryan, Rush Limbaugh's response, the former sp... |
Texas Congressman and fundraising powerhouse Ron Paul‘s campaign released an absolutely brutal web ad attacking current national frontrunner Newt Gingrich for “serial hypocrisy.” The spot, which is a too-long-for-TV 148 seconds, features a review of Gingrich flip-flops, accompanied by blistering criticism from the like... |
Topics: 2012 Elections, Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul
I was awestruck by a new Ron Paul ad attacking Newt Gingrich even before I saw that I have a cameo at the end. Full disclosure: I think the ad would be better without me. It’s most devastating when it features conservatives attacking Newt.
And it features plenty o... |
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Texas Rep. and GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul released a harsh attack ad Wednesday evening against Newt Gingrich, the former House Speaker and a fellow GOP candidate.
The ad, available to journalists through a “private” YouTube link, hit Gingrich for numerous allegedly contradictory statements abou... |
In another surprising 2012 plot twist, Ron Paul became the first Republican candidate to take on the new frontrunner Newt Gingrich today, releasing a scathing video that attacks Gingrich for "serial hypocrisy."
The 150-second web spot is a dramatic — and very well-produced — mashup of Gingrich clips from over the y... |
JUDY WOODRUFF: Herman Cain, the latest Republican presidential candidate to lead in the polls, spent the day rebutting sexual harassment charges, including, as you will hear shortly, here on the NewsHour.
Asked repeatedly about the claims, he dismissed them as baseless.
The story first reported last night on ne... |
Cain fumbles Uzbekistan’s name: ‘Ubeki-beki-beki-stan-stan’
By Kase Wickman
Monday, October 10, 2011 10:34 EDT
Republican presidential hopeful and former Godfather’s Pizza CEO Herman Cain made clear his opinion of certain foreign affairs in an interview with a religious broadcaster.
Cain sat down for an... |
Bahraini activist Zainab al-Khawaja (L) is greeted by Sumaiya Rajab, wife of jailed activist Nabeel Rajab, after her release from prison in Budaiya, west of Manama, February 16, 2014.
DUBAI A Bahraini court sentenced a political activist to one year in prison for ripping up a photo of the king in court in 2014, Amn... |
Bahrain: One-year prison sentence for activist who ripped up photo of King a vindictive assault on freedom of expression
Today’s appeal verdict against Bahraini activist Zainab Al-Khawaja, confirming her conviction on charges of “insulting” the King of Bahrain and reducing her three-year prison sentence to one year... |
1/50 27 March 2018 Russian President Vladimir Putin visits a memorial made for the victims of a fire in a multi-story shopping center in the Siberian city of Kemerovo. Officials say that the fire escapes were blocked and a PA system was turned off during the fire that killed over 50 people. Kremlin Pool Photo via AP
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Image copyright Channel 2 Image caption Khadija Khattab wants viewers to judge whether she deserves to be suspended over her appearance
Egypt's state broadcaster has suspended eight of its female TV presenters and told them to go on a diet, sparking uproar among women's rights groups.
The Egyptian Radio and Tel... |
Egypt's state-run television has suspended eight of its female presenters for being overweight - telling them they can return to the air only after they go a diet.
The move sparked outrage among women's groups and members of parliament but state television authorities show no sign of backing down.
The presenter... |
CAIRO — Most Egyptian journalists have had to watch their tongues and tone down their reporting over the past three years to keep their jobs under a military-dominated government. Now, the state is ordering some women working as television anchors to practice a similar restraint with their weight.
Earlier this week... |
Samsung has confirmed that it is recalling the Galaxy Note 7, its newest smartphone, following reports that some devices exploded.
The device was launched less than a month ago to very positive reviews, but concerns about the battery in some units — which reportedly combusted while charging — have forced the compan... |
Samsung is committed to producing the highest quality products and we take every incident report from our valued customers very seriously. In response to recently reported cases of the new Galaxy Note7, we conducted a thorough investigation and found a battery cell issue.
To date (as of September 1) there have been... |
Buccaneers aboard the flagship of notorious 18th-century pirate Blackbeard apparently enjoyed a rollicking read, according to an unlikely discovery in a cannon chamber.
A handful of paper scraps recovered from the wreck of Queen Anne's Revenge have been identified as fragments of the 1712 book A Voyage to the South... |
Old-timey pirates are typically portrayed as stupid, unrefined thugs whose only interests involved plundering captured ships and forcing enemies to walk the plank. The recent discovery of legible text on paper pulled from the cannon of Blackbeard’s flagship paints a strikingly different picture of these misunderstood s... |
Were 18th-century pirates literate? What sort of books did they keep on board ship? A fascinating new discovery at the Queen Anne’s Revenge Conservation Lab in Greenville helps answer those questions.
Archaeological conservators with the N.C. Department of Natural and Cultural Resources’ QAR Lab have discovered and... |
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Shortly after dusk along a lonely stretch of Interstate 95, armed robbers hijacked an armored truck, tied up the two guards and disappeared into the night with 275 pounds of gold bars.
The guards working for Transvalue Inc. of Miami reported pulling off to the side of the interstate about 6:30 ... |
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— The FBI and Wilson County authorities are investigating the theft of an estimated $4 million worth of gold reportedly stolen during an armed ... |
China’s plan to build a “Mars village” on a remote plateau in the country’s far northwest will cost about 400 million yuan (US$61.1 million), according to a blueprint for the project drawn up over the weekend.
The estimate was set after scientists and government officials from Delingha in Qinghai province, which wi... |
95,000 square-kilometre space base will be used to train astronauts as well as entertain glamping tourists
The 55m-kilometre jaunt from planet Earth to the red planet takes up to a year. From Beijing’s international airport you’ll soon be able to fly there in just over seven hours.
In the latest leg of its ... |
NASA/Clouds AO/SEArch China is to build its first base to simulate conditions living on Mars in a desert area deep in the country's northwest, state media reported.
An agreement to build a "Mars village" at Haixi prefecture in Qinghai province was signed on Tuesday, according to the China News Service.
The regi... |
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Leaving Haiti in "total disaster," Hurricane Matthew slammed into Cuba Tuesday night.
Hit in some areas by 24-foot waves, Cuba faced high winds, strong storm surge and torrential downpours as the storm marched across the country.
According to AP, the storm destroyed dozens of homes in Cuba's easternmost city, B... |
A member of the NYPD crime scene unit enters the Sofitel hotel in New York, Saturday, May 14, 2011. Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the leader of the International Monetary Fund and a possible candidate for president... (Associated Press)
Dominique Strauss-Kahn's reputation with women earned him the nickname "the great sed... |
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