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Gerald R. Ford (Republican) v. Jimmy Carter (Democrat) The 1976 presidential election was the first held in the wake of the Watergate scandal, which had consumed the Nixon presidency and resulted in Gerald R. Ford becoming president. Ford had first become Vice President by congressional confirmation in the wake of Vice President Sprio Agnew's own corruption scandal and resignation, resutling in the first American president who had not been elected to be either president or vice president. Ford, the Republican candidate, was pitted against the relatively unknown former 1-term governor of Georgia, Jimmy Cater. Carter ran as a Washington outsider,...

So shiny. Not aliens. Image credit: LVMPD 2020, it's fair to say, was an odd year. With a pandemic moving across the world and all the life changes that involved, it's easy to forget smaller stories, like that weird few months when monoliths started popping up around the world like Starbucks, sometimes containing cryptic messages. Well, good news if you missed it, because they are back and doing what they love; randomly appearing in deserts. The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department stumbled across one such "mysterious monolith" last weekend. The new monolith looks a lot like the old monoliths. Image...

“There were no signs that he had a problem. Nothing that could have predicted it.” That is what Olympic gymnast Ellie Downie told BBC Breakfast about her 24-year-old brother Josh, who collapsed and died of a cardiac arrest while playing cricket in 2021. Three years later, he is one of 12 young football fans lost to sudden cardiac death being memorialised in murals in their hometowns. It is part of a British Heart Foundation (BHF) drive to raise awareness of the devastating affect heart disease can have on people, regardless of their age. Every week in the UK, an estimated...

The Ayeyarwady pit viper, a new species discovered in Myanmar by Dr. Chan Kin Onn, illustrates the complexities of species differentiation in pit vipers. This species, which displays traits of both the redtail and mangrove pit vipers, was initially thought to be a hybrid but was confirmed as distinct through genomic analysis. Credit: Wolfgang Wüster Finding and describing new species can be a tricky endeavor. Scientists typically look for distinctive characters that can differentiate one species from another. However, variation is a continuum that is not always easy to quantify. At one extreme, multiple species can look alike even though...

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[OFFICIAL.] WASHINGTON, June 17, 1864. To Major-Gen. Dix: The following dispatches have been received by this Department: CITY POINT, June 15, VIA JAMESTOWN ISLAND, 5:30 A.M., 16 -- 1864. SMITH, with 15,000 men, attacked Petersburgh this morning. Gen. BUTLER reports, from his observatory near Bermuda Hundred, that there has been sharp fighting and that the troops and trains of the enemy were, as he writes, moving from the City across the Appomatox as if retreating. HANCOOK is not near enough to render Gen. SMITH any aid. The Richmond papers have nothing to indicate a suspicion of our crossing the James...

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National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)’s rover discovered a mysterious boulder on Mars, CBS News reported Monday. NASA’s Perseverance rover made a discovery in the Jezero crater on Mars, encountering a mysterious, light-toned boulder that differs from any previously observed Martian rocks. This finding occurred during the rover’s journey through the Neretva Vallis, a dried-up river delta, as it navigated towards a region in the crater’s rim to study sediment deposits, according to CBS News. The boulder, dubbed Atoko Point, caught the team’s attention with its unique speckled, light-toned appearance amid darker rocks. It was said to be “in a...

Image: Singapore Heritage/Roots THE LANGUAGE ON THIS 1,000 YEAR OLD STONE IS A “GLYPH BREAKER’S NIGHTMARE.” SCIENTISTS WANT TO USE AI TO CRACK IT. MJ BANIAS·JUNE 14, 2024 For centuries, the Singapore Stone has stood as one of Southeast Asia’s most enigmatic artifacts. Discovered in 1819 at the mouth of the Singapore River, this sandstone slab, inscribed with an unknown script, has baffled historians and linguists alike. Dubbed a “glyph breaker’s nightmare,” researchers are turning to artificial intelligence to unlock the secrets of this ancient relic. The Singapore Stone, originally a large boulder, was partially destroyed by the British in...

In short: * A Virgin Australia plane made an emergency landing shortly after taking off from Queenstown Airport after one of the engines caught fire. * Chief operations officer Stuart Aggs said the incident may have have been caused by a bird strike. * What's next? Passengers will be accommodated in Invercargill overnight and new flights will be arranged. VIDEO AT LINK................... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A Virgin Australia plane has landed safely in New Zealand after a fire shut down one of its engines, according to the nation's fire service. The Boeing 737-800 jet was bound for Melbourne, with 67 passengers and...

Beverly Winikoff, founder of Gynuity Health Projects — the sponsor of controversial abortion pill clinical trials on girls as young as 10 — has credited the September 11, 2001, terrorist attack on America with ‘saving’ the abortion pill. On September 1, 2001, a woman in Canada died from taking the abortion pill, and the news of her death was made public on September 10, the day before 9/11. Her death was overshadowed by the horrific events of that day, and Winikoff was glad for that. In a May 2020 interview with Columbia University journalists, Winikoff said, in part: I remember...

According to a statement released by PLOS, a purple dye workshop dated to the sixteenth-century B.C. has been discovered on the Greek island of Aegina by Lydia Berger of Paris Lodron University and her colleagues. The researchers identified the workshop through the purple pigment preserved on ceramics that may have served as dye containers; grinding stones; a waste pit; and the crushed shells of marine snails. Most of these shells came from the banded dye-murex species of Mediterranean snail. The bones of young mammals, including piglets and lambs, were also recovered at the site. The animals are thought to have...

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre unleashed at a reporter asking about Biden's bizarre freezing-up incidents over the past week. 'They are cheap fakes video. They are done in bad faith,' she said. Jean-Pierre was further pressed over a video last week showing Biden freezing during a Juneteenth concert on the White House lawn. 'The president stood there listening to the music and he didn't dance.' 'Excuse me, I did not know that not dancing was a mental..was a health issue,' she fired back. 'That is a weird thing to actually flag.' She was also asked about Biden wandering off...

Lawyers for Hunter Biden filed, and then quickly deleted, a demand for a new trial after he was found guilty on charges related to lying on a form for purchasing a handgun. Lawyers filed a new motion withdrawing their motion seeking a new trial nearly immediately after the first filing appeared, a Delaware court's website notes. 'The Motion for a New Trial (formerly DI 233) has been deleted at the request of counsel,' according to the 'correcting entry.' The legal confusion comes after the president's son was found guilty of three criminal charges in his blockbuster gun and drugs trial....

The '70s were half a century ago, and that fact is especially apparent when you look back at the media of the time. Watch a movie or TV show from that decade or listen to a song, and you won't just notice outdated fashion, interiors, and slang, but you'll also come across plots, characters, and words that are offensive, especially by the standards of 2023. When it comes to music in particular, there are plenty of songs from the '70s that are offensive to listeners now. 1 "Brown Sugar" by The Rolling Stones (1971)

The Internet was briefly sent into a panic yesterday, after a NASA audio feed from the International SpacStation (ISS) was accidentally "misrouted" to a public feed. The ISS broadcasts its view live, including footage from cameras inside and outside the station. At time of writing, you can even watch astronauts conducting a live space walk. While very cool, mishaps with the feed can happen, as evidenced on Wednesday when the public heard audio that sounded particularly concerning. In the audio, which was assumed to be ground control communicating with the ISS, you can hear a doctor advising on a medical...

NATIONAL ROOT BEER DAY June 17 is National Root Beer Day and give everyone the opportunity to enjoy the refreshingly frosty soda known as root beer. Celebrating this beverage holiday is as easy as gathering some friends and some of root beer to enjoy together. What are you waiting for? #NationalRootBeerDay Commercial root beer production in the United States has been around since 1875. Producers traditionally use molasses and elements of sassafras as the main ingredients. Today, over 100 brands of root beer are produced with a range of flavors. Some add extra punches of vanilla while others lean on...

Credit: NASA/Dana Berry Here in our own Solar System, a single star anchors the system, where inner, rocky planets, an intermediate-distance asteroid belt, and then more distant gas giant planets eventually give way to the Kuiper belt and Oort cloud. This configuration is not universal among stellar and planetary systems, which means our Solar System possesses many properties that are not necessarily common among exoplanetary systems KEY TAKEAWAYS Earth doesn’t have the most water in the Solar System, the farthest planet from the Sun isn’t the coldest, and the only planet made mostly of metal isn’t the densest. Forget...

Excavations that are underway at the top of Papoura Hill, at an altitude of 494m. NW of the town of Kastellio and the airport under construction, yielded a monumental architectural ensemble, in a circular shape, unique for the...This monumental construction consists of 8 consecutive stone-built rings - through a thickness of 1.40m., And a height estimated. The rings form a circular building in the center ( zone A ) diameter 15m. with differential construction, the interior of which ( diems. Zone A is surrounded by a second main zone ( zone B, with a width of 6.9 ), in which...

A study reveals that 400,000 years ago, early humans developed Quina scrapers for hunting, adapting to the disappearance of elephants and forming a cultural link to the resource-rich Mountains of Samaria... These tools were first discovered at a site in France and are named after it. They have been found at the ancient sites of Jaljulia and Qesem Cave. Quina scrapers are distinguished by their scalloped, sharp working edges, which were utilized for butchering fallow deer and processing their hides.The researchers explain that after the elephants disappeared from the region, the ancient hunters were forced to make technological adaptations enabling...