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A UK man accidentally stabbed himself to death while trying to separate two frozen burgers with a knife in a freakish accident that initially left cops baffled, a court hearing into his bizarre death was told. Barry Griffiths, 57, died after he accidentally plunged the blade into his stomach at his home in Powys, Wales, in July last year, the Western Telegraph reported.

BOSTON - A Cape Air flight from Boston to Maine landed safely on what appeared to be one wheel after a landing gear problem forced the small plane to return to Logan Airport Tuesday. Flight 1833 to Bar Harbor had three people on board. Cape Air said the pilot "was alerted to a landing gear anomaly shortly after take-off." Just after 3:15 p.m., the Cessna 402 returned to Logan with emergency crews standing by. WBZ-TV's helicopter captured the landing on video. After touching down on the runway, the small plane skidded to a halt near the grass. The people on...

The beauty of baseball is there’s always a first we haven’t seen before, and here we go again. Tuesday night’s game between the Houston Astros and San Diego Padres couldn’t have been more filled with drama, and then when we got to the ninth inning, things started to overflow when Houston superstar Jose Altuve was up to bat with two outs and a runner on second base. The game was tied 3-3 at the time. Squaring off against San Diego relief pitcher Robert Suarez, Altuve knocked what originally appeared to be a grounder to third to put an end to...

During an inquiry into the Titan sub disaster, its chief engineer said they’d never get onboard the craft and its final message to the surface was revealedWe were all captivated by the search for a submarine full of millionaires that had gone missing while diving to the wreck of the Titanic last year. After an extensive search, the submarine’s remains were found scattered on the sea floor and now, an inquiry into just what went wrong has revealed that OceanGate’s chief engineer said they would never have ridden in the doomed sub. An inquiry into the OceanGate disaster kicked off...

Immortal mystery man reported in 18th Century London, Paris, virtuoso violinist, multilingual, never explained his origins. Voltaire mentions him as a man who never dies.

The Human Rights Campaign initially focused its report card, named the Corporate Equality Index, on ensuring that gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer employees did not face discrimination in hiring and on the job. Just 13 companies received a perfect score in 2002. By last year, 545 businesses did even though the requirements have expanded. But the scorecard itself has come under attack in recent months by conservative activists who targeted businesses as part of a broader pushback against diversity initiatives. Ford, Harley Davidson and Lowe’s are among the companies that announced they would no longer participate in the Corporate...

A larvae emerges from an adult fruit fly. (Moore et al., Nature, 2024) ======================================================================= A team of biologists has stumbled across a new species of wasp in an unlikely place: the back end of an adult fruit fly. The wasp is a previously undescribed species the researchers named Syntretus perlmani. And the strangest thing about it? It begins its life in the abdomen of adult Drosophila flies, a place that, as far as we know, no other wasps are willing to go. Though parasitoid wasps lay their young in the bodies of all kinds of insects, up to 200 species...

It has been said that, when he was leaving the Constitutional Convention, Benjamin Franklin was asked whether the Founding Fathers had given America a monarchy or a republic, and he replied: “A republic, if you can keep it.” The Founders put the power to decide our Nation’s future in the hands of “We the People.” On Constitution Day and Citizenship Day, and during Constitution Week, we recommit to preserving our republic, perfecting our Union, and ensuring our democracy survives and thrives. Our Constitution established that our Nation would be a democracy, meaning the rule of the people — not of...

Minister for Justice Helen McEntee has said she wants legislation in place as soon as possible to ban the wearing of masks and balaclavas during protests. The concealment of identities is instilling fear and intimidation and is making the job of the gardaí more difficult, Ms. McEntee said. The proposal comes in response to a rise in violent protests over the past year where some attendees covered their faces with balaclavas and masks. The minister said she is working closely with the Attorney General and the Garda Commissioner to draft legislation. “My priority now is to make sure that the...

Brittany Mahomes is 'deeply bothered' by Donald Trump's very public attack on her close friend Taylor Swift, according to sources who claim the Kansas City Chiefs WAG is questioning her support for the former president. Brittany, who has been married to Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes since 2022, sparked a liberal meltdown last month when she liked a post about Trump, 78, on social media. Weeks later, Taylor, 34, publicly endorsed Kamala Harris' bid for president - an action that drove a reported 338,000 visits to the federal voter registration website after she shared a link on Instagram. Trump hit back...

The Centauromachy was a mythical battle between the Lapith people, who were members of the ancient Greek tribe of Aeolians who lived in Thessaly, and the mythical centaurs—half-horse, half-man creatures in Greek mythology. Who were the Centaurs and the Lapiths? The Lapiths and the centaurs of ancient Greece were said to be related in that the clans supposedly descended—and acquired their names—from two mythical brothers: Lapithes and Centaurus. Centaurus, according to ancient Greek mythology, was the first being to group the stars into constellations, and taught others how to read them. It is said he formulated a picture of himself...

Are witches real? Of course! Witch historian and modern practitioners share history, types.

Right after the jet starts down the runway, a huge chunk of asphalt lifts up from the ground and blows away.................

Every now and then the question gets asked, "if you had a time machine, where would you go?"Aside from the money-making responses of looking up lottery numbers or the biggest winners in the stock market, one of the top responses always involves Hitler. Most would kill him as a blight on history.Given that Trump has been labeled as someone worse than Hitler, a terrorist, and a threat to democracy itself, is it any wonder that the average Democrat considers killing Trump their civic duty?The Democrats and their propaganda arm, the MSM, know what they are doing. Even after this latest...

A case of mistaken municipality had an emergency call from a boat sinking in the English Channel off the coast of Dover, England go to local rescuers in Dover, Delaware, prompting them to help save stranded sailors ================================================================== Have you ever answered the phone and realized the person on the other end of the line meant to call someone else? Well, that happened to 911 dispatchers in Dover, Delaware. NBC10’s Tim Furlong has the story. Police in Dover, Delaware, helped save a boat stranded at sea more than 3,650 miles away when an emergency call meant for Dover, England, mistakenly...

Mississippi's 2024 alligator hunting season got off to a whopping start when a team of six hunters reeled in one of the largest monsters ever caught in the state. The 14-foot-long, 802-pound alligator was caught in the Yazoo River, which stretches over 2,000 miles through Mississippi and Louisiana. The group stood proudly with their catch for photographs, and all six were needed to hold up the lifeless creature. The yearly hunt kicked off last month and is set to run until September 9, allowing participants to take home their prize for 'wallets, belts and eating,' according to state rules. The...

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — Three sisters from Ohio who inherited a dime kept in a bank vault for more than 40 years knew it had some value. But they had no idea just how much until just a few years ago. The extraordinarily rare coin, struck by the U.S. Mint in San Francisco in 1975, could bring more than $500,000, said Ian Russell, president of GreatCollections, which specializes in currency and is handling an online auction that will end in October. What makes the dime depicting President Franklin D. Roosevelt so valuable is a missing “S” mint mark for San...

The 3.5-kilogram amber nugget is the biggest piece of rumanite ever found. (Buzău County Museum) =========================================================================== They say one's trash is another's treasure, but a chunk of 'rock' used to keep a door open for decades is a treasure by pretty much any metric you might care to use. The 3.5 kilogram (7.7 pound) stone was found in a stream bed in southeast Romania by an elderly woman, who brought it home and put it to use. Her discovery turned out to be one of the biggest intact chunks of amber in the world, according to a report by El...

This listing is for a vintage paper advertisement. This is a 1995 ad for a TIAA-CREF Retirement! The size of the ad is approximately 8.5x11inches. The caption for this ad is 'They say in thirty years a burger & fries could cost $16, a vacation $12,500, and a basic car $65,000' The ad is in great condition. This vintage ad would look great framed and displayed! Add it to your collection today!

Donald J. Trump has made his revisionist account of the Capitol attack the foundation of this campaign, even when there is little political advantage.When a moderator asked Donald J. Trump about Jan. 6, 2021, at the presidential debate, the former president slipped immediately into a now-familiar revisionist history of the attack on the U.S. Capitol. He falsely claimed that he had nothing to do with the assault, blaming it on former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the police officers who protected the building that day against a mob of his supporters. But then Mr. Trump made a brief but telling...