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This picture taken on April 20, 2021 shows an aerial view of people using their phones and cameras to film a shark swimming past in the shallow Mediterranean Sea water off the Israeli coastal town of Hadera north of Tel Aviv JACK GUEZ AFP Dozens of sharks gathered Tuesday in warm waters of the Mediterranean near an Israeli power plant, drawing sightseers in what has become an annual occurence. The sharks' fins sliced through the swallow waters just metres (yards) away from bathers eager to take photos of them near the city of Hadera. Sandbar and dusky sharks, which are...

Welcome to the weekend. Back in the 1970's there were radio stations like KIIS in Los Angeles and WMGK in Philadelphia playing softer sounds called "soft rock" or "adult contemporary". Here are some songs in that take us back to that kind of sound... Are You An 'Abolitionist'? The Latest Vandalism From Portland "Direct Action" in downtown Portland last night... The United Kingdom is a dying nation. Peter Hitchens has urged young people to leave the country because it has no future but Mr. Hitchens does draw on his own father and his military service in the Royal Navy to...

Bobby Darin "Dream Lover"

Some three million years ago, eel-like sharks snaked through the region that now supports Tuscany's finest vineyards, suggest fossils recently found in the clay soil of the Chianti region. Hundreds of fossilized teeth belonging to primitive shark-like creatures have been uncovered by amateur paleontologists near the village of Castelnuovo Berardenga, not far from Siena.

My husband and I saw a movie last night that I would like to recommend to members of FreeRepublic as a break from the often overwhelmingly grim news of the day (Iraq, Indonesia). The movie is "Beyond The Sea", PG-13, the biopic of Bobby Darin, singer, composer, showman. This movie is simply outstanding and deserves to be seen in a theater with surround sound -- please don't wait for the DVD. Kevin Spacey wrote it, directed it, produced it, and stars in it; and he is fabulous. But -- equally fabulous is the rest of the cast -- John Goodman,...