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The National Maritime Museum is supporting seafarers who have been impacted by the pandemic through partnerships with two leading maritime welfare organisations, the ITF Seafarers’ Trust and The Mission to Seafarers, to record oral histories of seafarers who have been unable to dock in ports across the globe because of the COVID-19 pandemic, and with Ince as a founding partner of a charity single, to be released in June. The plight of seafarers has recently been addressed in the Neptune Declaration. Over 700 organisations have signed the declaration, calling for an international commitment to resolving the crew change crisis as...

[Catholic Caucus] The Phantom Note on Masses in Saint Peter’s: Guess Who Invented it…Marco TosattiDear friends and enemies of Stilum Curiae, thanks to Korazym.org, a site you know well and that you know is very much appreciated in these parts, we have gained a better understanding about the mysterious unsigned note without a protocol number that was issued by the First Section of the Secretary of State on the regulation of Masses in Saint Peter’s Basilica, without the new Archpriest of the Basilica, who was recently appointed to replace Cardinal Comastri, knowing anything about it. It appears that the note...

At the Condado Vanderbilt hotel in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Christian Correa clocked in to work the night-shift as a doorman and braced for the worst. Correa, who is also a bellman at the hotel, has seen a surge in American tourists coming to the US territory in the last three months and the hotel has been busy. Although he used to enjoy high season before the pandemic, recently, many tourists arriving to Puerto Rico have enraged local residents and hospitality workers as the island eases its Covid-19 restrictions. “The tourists think they can do whatever they want,” says Correa,...

@ZekeJMiller @PressSec: President Biden will hold a formal press conference on the afternoon of Thursday, March 25th

Even “New York’s hometown airline” can’t escape the allure of sunny Florida. JetBlue, currently headquartered in the Long Island City neighborhood of Queens, is exploring its office options in the wake of the pandemic — a move that could see it ship more corporate jobs to the Sunshine State, The Post has learned. In a March 11 memo to its LIC staffers, a copy of which was obtained by The Post, the budget airline said the combination of tougher economic times and more abundant office space has it reviewing its options ahead of the July 2023 expiration of its Long...

Archaeologists in Sweden have discovered nearly two dozen gold foil figures that have engravings of couples embracing each other.The figures, which date back about 1,300 years, were found in the remains of a great hall on a platform mound, a human-made structure, at the site of Aska in Sweden. The researchers are still trying to piece together the broken figures to uncover more about them."Our best estimate is that we have 22 foil figures. The exact number is not quite clear because most are fragmented, and there is some uncertainty as to which fragments go together," Martin Rundkvist, an archaeology...

The over used "Melting Pot" analogy for Immigration is Freeking Broken Here is why: - The heat is too low on the stove ( Reduced Pressure to assimilate ) - The Pot is smaller than you think ( Number of people that we can culturally absorb without permanently altering our base culture ) - The Pot is overstuffed & ingredients are spilling out on the counter ( We have way to many people trying to come in, Illegals are the "spillover" ). - The Pot is not being Mixed ( Self-Segregated Ethnic communities are not dispersing faster than they are...

"Is Joe Biden really doing the job of president, or are others making decisions for him behind the scenes?" 1000 National Likely Voters: Joe Biden is really doing the job of president - Democrats - 80% Unaffiliated - 35% Republicans - 20% All Voters - 47% 47% of Likely U.S. Voters believe Biden is really doing the job of president

His social life severely curtailed by the coronavirus pandemic, Tadasu Masuda found himself embracing the opportunity to take what in Japan are known as “liver rest days” and try out a range of alcohol-free beer brands. They tasted much better than he expected, and while Masuda is not giving up on regular beer, he’s now committed to the occasional break. Read the condensed version of this story, and other top stories with NewsLite. “I want to keep drinking these and make sure my liver gets days off,” said the civil servant who lives in Kobe, western Japan, adding that he...

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One of the fascinating oddities of the American revolution was the way many mutually hostile groups of elites in America decided, in a brief period, to join forces in what seemed like a fool’s errand—a revolution against the imperial elite of Great Britain. Among their goals, these different and incompatible elites of New England, New York, Virginia, the Carolinas and, eventually, Pennsylvania all wanted to reclaim and/or protect their long-established liberties, immunities, and rights of self-rule. What these different colonial elites had in common was a collective desire to fight a more distant elite that sought to control them with...

The UK government's flagship crime legislation has been backed in a Commons vote. (359 to 263) What are the key measures?• The maximum sentence for assaulting an emergency worker will be doubled to two years, while a Police Covenant will be enshrined in law to protect serving and retired officers and their families. • Whole Life Orders for the premeditated murder of a child, which will also allow judges to give the maximum sentence to 18 to 20-year-olds in exceptional cases, such as for acts of terrorism leading to mass loss of life. • The ability to stop the automatic...

Was it due to people moving in from other states? Election fraud? Or is it due to increasingly liberal public education in these states, churning out a never ending conga-line of young leftist voters each year for the past several decades?

Some big changes are coming to professional baseball this season. From Triple-A down, every level of the minor leagues will see a rule change implemented in 2021. These rules and changes have been talked about for a few years, and now they will be tested for the big leagues. We should all be paying attention to what is going on because if these rule changes go smoothly, we could see them in the major leagues as soon as next year.

The Washington Post's media-spread error about Trump's Georgia call shows the deceitful playbook first invented to undermine Trump and promote Russiagate. There were so many false reports circulated by the dominant corporate wing of the U.S. media as part of the five-year-long Russiagate hysteria that in January, 2019, I compiled what I called “The 10 Worst, Most Embarrassing U.S. Media Failures on the Trump-Russia Story.” The only difficult part of that article was choosing which among the many dozens of retractions, corrections and still-uncorrected factual falsehoods merited inclusion in the worst-ten list. So stiff was the competition that I was...

Geert Vanden Bossche, PhDGeert Vanden Bossche, PhD, DVM, is a vaccine research expert. He has a long list of companies and organizations he’s worked with on vaccine discovery and preclinical research, including GSK, Novartis, Solvay Biologicals, and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Dr Vanden Bossche also coordinated the Ebola vaccine program at GAVI (Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization).I quoted the text above from this link:Geert Bossche: Halt All Covid-19 Mass Vaccination (Open Letter to WHO) (dryburgh.com)Regarding the video at the FR link:Apparently Del Bigtree who reviews portions of an interview with Vanden Bossche is anti-vax, but the subject of...

<p>John McLean has quite the shark tale to tell.</p><p>In an interview with News 6, the Pensacola charter fishing captain shared details about the moment he helped reel in an estimated 12 to 13-foot female great white shark to shore. McClean said his fishing story began six years ago when he moved to Florida from Minnesota to pursue professional hockey.</p>

When Columbia University in New York City holds its virtual graduation ceremonies for the Class of 2021, it wants to be sure that there are separate ones for certain identity groups. “Complementing our school- and University-wide ceremonies, these events provide a more intimate setting for students and guests to gather, incorporate meaningful cultural traditions and celebrate the specific contributions and achievements of their communities,” the Ivy League university said in announcing a series of graduation ceremonies designed for those groups Columbia has deemed special. The ceremonies begin with one for Native Americans on April 25. Next comes what is called...

If you like videos of creative engineering, you may like Colin Furze. He's a Brit who involves himself in various engineering projects of his personal interest. He does a really good job and I don't think anybody can do it better. https://www.youtube.com/user/colinfurze

House GOP Leader says border agents told him Iran, Yemen and Sri Lanka citizens have been caught at the southern border Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call By Nicholas Ballasy Updated: March 15, 2021 - 4:00pm Article Dig In Republican Rep. John Katko, ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee, said Monday during a trip to the southern border that U.S. Border Patrol has apprehended individuals who were on the terrorist watchlist. "Something that very much concerns me as the Homeland Security ranking member is people they've caught in the last few days over there in sector three or...