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Czech police detained a 23-year-old foreigner on Sunday evening, who was subsequently prosecuted for attempting to murder a 37-year-old woman and rape a 19-year-old woman. Both acts took place on New Year’s Eve in Karlovy Vary, the Czech police reported on their website. “The accused foreigner who came to Karlovy Vary on Friday 31 December 2021 as part of New Year’s Eve celebrations, he was to meet a local 37-year-old woman at night during the night, ” said police spokesman Jakub Kopřiva in the statement, from which he cites the news server iDNES.cz. The suspect allegedly attacked the woman with...

Around 300,000 to 370,000 Christians live in Iran, however, they are enjoying the freedom to perform their rituals and celebrate their festivities for four centuries. Most of the Christians in Iran are Armenians who have lived here for centuries. Assyrians, Catholics, Protestants, and Evangelical Christians constitute the rest of the Christians in Iran. The Assyrians of ancient Iran converted to Christianity since its onset, particularly in the first to third centuries AD. Like most Christians around the world, Assyrians in Iran celebrate December 25 as the birth anniversary of Jesus Christ. Assyrian Christians fast for 25 days before the birth...

This animation shows an artist’s rendition of the cloudy structure revealed by a study of data from NASA’s Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer satellite. Credit: Wolfgang Steffen, UNAM ======================================================================== Upending textbook explanations, astrophysicists from the University of Miami, Yale University, and the European Space Agency suggest that primordial black holes account for all dark matter in the universe. Proposing an alternative model for how the universe came to be, a team of astrophysicists suggests that all black holes—from those as tiny as a pinhead to those covering billions of miles—were created instantly after the Big Bang and account for all dark...

Just went to AOC's website and figured out a way to send he an e-mail.They want a 9 digit residential zip code to get into the email area so it took a few minutes. This is what I wrote: Miss Ocasio Cortez...the other day you stated that men who don't like you are just bitter because they're not able to date you. I just want to assure you that I have *never* been so desperate for "companionship"...of *any* kind...that I was willing to get within 5 miles of a woman as vacant and insignificant as you. Thanks for your time!I...

Suddenly so forgiving, that Joe Scarborough! On today's Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough admitted that last week, he felt the Biden administration had "terribly botched" things "as far as [COVID] testing goes." But on second thought . . . nope! Don't blame Biden for botching the availability of testing. Because . . . testing isn't necessary! Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

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On his father’s farm in Rutland, Jim Irving and his family were out walking when he spotted a few bits of ancient pottery scattered on the ground. Little did he know that further investigation into this would lead to the discovery of an extraordinary 1,700-year-old Roman mosaic, depicting Achilles and the Trojan War from The Iliad, and the remains of an ancient villa. Upon finding these traces during lockdown in 2020, Irving accessed satellite imagery and discovered a cropmark, and after a preliminary search he contacted the Historic Environment team at Leicestershire County Council, who in turn reached out to...

At least six Democratic-leaning seats have been added to the House of Representatives so far ahead of the midterm elections this fall. Twenty-five states have finished redrawing their congressional maps using data from the 2020 census. Analysis from FiveThirtyEight found that compared to the old maps, there are now six more Democrat-leaning seats, one fewer Republican-leaning seat, and four fewer "highly competitive seats."

STARTING TODAY: here is a link to a new seriespresenting The Bible In Paintings,beginning in Genesis and heading toward Revelation. May the Lord use it to bless you, again and again and again….HERE ARE THE TITLES OF THE FIRST THIRTEEN EPISODES. Today, of course, "GOD CREATED THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH". Then, in coming days:"LET THERE BE LIGHT" GOD CREATES ADAM GOD CREATES EVE THE SERPENT TEMPTS EVE EVE TEMPTS ADAM, 1 EVE TEMPTS ADAM, 2 HIDING FROM GOD BANISHED FROM THE GARDEN AFTER THE GARDEN FARMER CAIN & SHEPHERD ABEL THE FIRST MURDER THE FIRST FUNERAL

OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) -- A brazen assault and robbery on two seniors just one day after Christmas in Oakland's Chinatown is prompting community leaders to make some changes.

Explanation: Sometimes falling ice crystals make the atmosphere into a giant lens causing arcs and halos to appear around the Sun or Moon. One Saturday night in 2012 was just such a time near Madrid, Spain, where a winter sky displayed not only a bright Moon but four rare lunar halos. The brightest object, near the top of the featured image, is the Moon. Light from the Moon refracts through tumbling hexagonal ice crystals into a somewhat rare 22-degree halo seen surrounding the Moon. Elongating the 22-degree arc horizontally is a more rare circumscribed halo caused by column ice crystals....

So far I have felt a little worse every single day of 2022. I hope this is not a trend. But until such time as I can get my twinkle back on I leave you to entertain yourselves. Remember: you still have 3 days of Christmas to celebrate before Twelfth Night. Feel free to continue to celebrate in whatever fashion you deem appropriate.If you need me I’ll be curled up in a ball somewhere.Posted from: MOTUS A.D.

The Bible In Paintings 2 Engravings•Facades•Frescoes•Illuminations•Miniatures•Mosaics•Photographs•Reliefs•Sculptures•Tapestries•WindowsG E N E S I SCHAPTER 1, VERSE 1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. NOTE: The Hebrew phrase translated as "the heavens and the earth" (shamayim erets) indicates the totality of creation: all Matter, Energy, Space and Time, including our solar system's sun, planets and moons. New International Version ©1984 1 WILLIAM BLAKE "The Ancient of Days"2 JAMES TISSOT "God Creating the World"3 GIOVANNI BATTISTA CIMA DA CONEGLIANO "God the Father"4 BILL BELL "Creation of Universe"5 BILL BELL Source6 NASA "Pillars of Creation"7 NASA "Hubble Extreme Deep Field"8...

A conspiracy-spouting extremist or a patriotic martyr? Ashli Babbitt, who was shot dead a year ago during the invasion of the US Capitol, is a Rorschach test for the deep political fault line that runs through the United States. An Air Force veteran who served in Iraq and voted for America's first Black president, Babbitt died wrapped in a flag bearing the name of Donald Trump, the populist billionaire who still insists he won an election that he lost by a wide margin. Her journey of radical transformation mirrors that of many of the supporters of the real estate tycoon,...

Eyewitness to Marshall Fire origin recounts scene like a ‘war zone’ Video by Mike Zoltowski appears to show devastating blaze’s earliest moments A neighbor of a property where a small structure was seen on video engulfed in flames late Thursday morning said he witnessed how those flames appeared to touch off what became the devastating Marshall Fire and that there might also be at least one other ignition source.

(LOFAR/LOL Survey) The image above may look like a fairly normal picture of the night sky, but what you're looking at is a lot more special than just glittering stars. Each of those white dots is an active supermassive black hole. And each of those black holes is devouring material at the heart of a galaxy millions of light-years away – that's how they could be pinpointed at all. Totaling 25,000 such dots, astronomers created the most detailed map to date of black holes at low radio frequencies in early 2021, an achievement that took years and a Europe-sized radio...

The theatre of exciting events is transferred for the moment from our own coast to that of Mexico. We learn from that distracted and unhappy country that the long-impending blow has at length fallen, and that Vera Cruz is now occupied by Spanish troops. By this time, probably, the British and French contingents, appointed to operate against Mexico, have joined their forces with those of Spain, and the allies have commenced to carry out the policy adopted by the three Powers in the Convention of the 31st of October last. In connection with the news received to-day, we publish a...

Ashli Babbitt was married to another man when she had an affair with future husband Aaron Babbitt.At the time of the affair, Aaron Babbitt was in a six-year relationship with Celeste Norris.Babbitt later drove her SUV into Norris' vehicle, who she stalked and harassed after the incident.[snip] Four years earlier, Babbitt repeatedly rammed her SUV into the vehicle of Celeste Norris, whose boyfriend of six years she was having an extramarital affair with, the Associated Press reported.[snip] When Norris found out about the affair, she told Timothy McEntee, which prompted the future Mrs. Babbitt to chase down and ram her...

At this writing on January 2, de Blasio is finally gone from office. Whether the new guy (Eric Adams) proves to be any better remains to be seen. Before leaving the topic of de Blasio’s legacy to New York, I would be remiss not to include a post on the subject of crime. The bottom line for crime, as for every other major issue of public policy, was that the progressive de Blasio ruined everything he touched. Outcomes worsened across the board, and the decline was the clear result of the progressive policies that de Blasio either implemented or advocated....

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