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Yes, we've been told she was born in Melbourne. Yes, we now know that she sewed her own stage clothes. And of course we we've been told time and time again about the purity of her bell-like voice.

The blacktop road in this picturesque neighborhood of Colonial Williamsburg is lined with Southern Magnolias, red maples, and flowering dogwoods, their leaves turned deep shades of red. Near the end of the road sits a red brick, colonial-style house, yellow and purple pansies bordering a path to the front door.Williamsburg, Virginia“Planting flowers is my exercise,” says Lieutenant General Paul K. Van Riper, USMC (Ret.), 87.For 23 years, Van Riper shared the house with Lillie Catherine, whom he called LC, his beloved wife of 53 years who passed away in 2021. He designed the house at the end of a decades-long...

Jeff Lynne's ELO on tour promoting his album ZOOM and playing all the oldies. Do Ya Evil Woman Strange Magic Livin' thing Telephone Line Turning to Stone -etc

This is a deep, physics-based look into the future of the transistor, beyond the current FinFET and the emerging Gate-All-Around (GAA) architectures. The Next Transistor: Inside TSMC's Push for CFETs | 19:52 Behind Asia | 423K subscribers | 20,647 views | November 5, 2025

More satire at the expense of hizzoner-elect.

Emma McGinty has tragically passed away after she collapsed last Monday while putting her kids to sleep.A Scots mum-of-seven tragically died after she collapsed while putting her children to bed. Emma McGinty, 43, was rushed to hospital on Monday November 3 after telling her family something was 'really wrong'. Her eldest daughter Nicole said she had 'appeared fine' and was getting on with cleaning their house in West Lothian earlier that day. Emma was taken to St John's Hospital in Livingston, before being moved to the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. Doctors discovered a clot on her carotid artery that had...

Being neither a religion nor an ideology, the body of opinion termed conservatism possesses no Holy Writ and no Das Kapital to provide dogmata. So far as it is possible to determine what conservatives believe, the first principles of the conservative persuasion are derived from what leading conservative writers and public men have professed during the past two centuries. After some introductory remarks on this general theme, I will proceed to list ten such conservative principles. Perhaps it would be well, most of the time, to use this word “conservative” as an adjective chiefly. For there exists no Model Conservative,...

Contestants at the 2025 Miss Universe Pageant, which is being held in Thailand, staged a mass walkout of the event after an event official publicly berated Miss Mexico and called her “dumb”. Miss Mexico remained defiant after the incident, saying, “No one can shut our voice and no one will do that to me”.

Nalin Haley, the 24-year-old son of former US ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley, has sparked a major debate with his comments on immigration and jobs in America. In an interview with UnHerd, he said the US should not only stop illegal immigration, but legal immigration too. His reason was the same as many Americans right now — young people, including his own friends, are struggling to find work. Despite being from one of the most prominent Indian-origin families in US politics, Nalin took a hard line on immigration, including immigration from India. Nalin said the US should pause all...

CLEVELAND (WJW) – Veterans Day 2025 falls on Tuesday, Nov. 11, and is a day to honor and celebrate veterans and active military members nationwide.

---SNIP--- Whenever the November Witch sweeps across the Great Lakes in autumn, mariners know to beware. Hurricane-force winds, born from collisions of lingering summer warmth and frigid Arctic air, can slam into the lakes and set loose 40-foot waves. But unlike an ocean hurricane, which builds for days or weeks, the Witch of November—made famous by Canadian singer Gordon Lightfoot’s 1976 ballad—can transform the lakes from glass to fury in just hours. To the Anishinaabe, also known as Chippewa, it isn’t a sorceress who terrorizes the largest of the Great Lakes, but a clash between Thunderbirds, wind spirits who rule...

Think Mamdami is the worst thing? No matter. If you don't have all your kids, if you practiced contraception and abortion, you're already pitching yourself headlong over the lemming cliff. I live in the area with the greatest variety of ethnic groups. Forty years ago, it was Russians. Then it was Hmongs. (What's that? See Clint Eastwood's "Gran Torino".) Now the streets of Sacramento are filled with women in veils leading strings and strings of kids. It doesn't matter if you or I don't like them. Like-schmike. We don't have kids; they do. We are dinosaurs. The future is theirs....

The U.S. military killed six people on Sunday in two more strikes on boats suspected of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced on Monday. The latest strikes raised the death toll in the campaign to 76 people in 19 attacks in the Pacific and the Caribbean Sea since early September. In a post on social media, Mr. Hegseth cited “intelligence” and included two short video clips of the bombings of two separate boats that he said were traveling “along a known narco-trafficking transit route in the Eastern Pacific.” One of the boats appeared to...

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., was the only Republican who broke with his party and voted no on the test vote to break a filibuster on the deal to reopen the government. Paul voted nay because he wanted a guarantee of a change in the bill regarding hemp.

Explanation: Clouds of glowing gas mingle with dust lanes in the Trifid Nebula, a star forming region toward the constellation of the Archer (Sagittarius). In the center, the three prominent dust lanes that give the Trifid its name all come together. Mountains of opaque dust appear on the right, while other dark filaments of dust are visible threaded throughout the nebula. A single massive star visible near the center causes much of the Trifid's glow. The Trifid, also known as M20, is only about 300,000 years old, making it among the youngest emission nebulae known. The nebula lies about 9,000...

An illegal immigrant with a criminal history has been arrested following a weekend shooting in which U.S. Border Patrol agents were shot at in Chicago. The shooting happened Saturday in the city's Little Village neighborhood as federal agents were conducting immigration enforcement operations. The unidentified suspect, a Mexican citizen, was in a Jeep that drove up near the agents and fired shots before driving away, federal sources told Fox News. At the time of his arrest, he was found with a firearm, sources said. The suspect has previously been convicted of crimes including aggravated unlawful use of a weapon/vehicle, felony...

The Marine Corps was established in 1775 to fight in the Revolutionary War, making the branch older than the United States.Monday marks a major milestone in American military history as the U.S. Marine Corps celebrates its 250th birthday and events honoring Marines past and present are planned across several states.Birth of the CorpsThe branch traces its origins to Nov. 10, 1775, when John Adams drafted a resolution creating the Continental Marines to serve alongside the Continental Navy in the Revolutionary War. Recruitment began at a brewery in Philadelphia, which is now recognized as the Corps' birthplace.First MissionsThe Marines' first assault...

Over the past two decades, tens of millions of women have been denied or not offered hormone replacement therapy or have otherwise avoided it because of a medical dogma that it would increase their risk of dying of breast cancer. Clinical trials, however, don’t support that association. It’s time to treat women’s health with rigorous science instead of fear and misinformation. Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is requesting that drug manufacturers remove black box warnings from these products. These are the strongest drug warning the agency can require, and they have inappropriately scared women off from this life-changing,...

https://babylonbee.com/news/democrats-agree-to-end-shutdown-in-exchange-for-15-off-coupon-to-cracker-barrelWASHINGTON, D.C. — The record-length shutdown of the federal government was finally set to reach its conclusion, as Senate Democrats agreed to end the shutdown in exchange for a 15% off coupon to Cracker Barrel. Democrats had appeared to be willing to keep the shutdown going through the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday despite rising frustration among the American people, but a small group of senators reportedly caved when Senate Majority Leader John Thune put a Cracker Barrel coupon on the negotiating table. "That was an offer no one in their right mind could pass up," said Virginia Senator Tim Kaine. "It...

Syrian President Ahmed Sharaa has arrived in Washington for an official visit, just two days after the US formally revoked his status as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist. The former Islamist militant will meet US President Donald Trump at the White House on Monday, 11 months after his rebel alliance ousted Bashar al-Assad. Hours before his arrival in the US capital it was announced that Syrian security services had detained dozens of suspected members of the so-called Islamic State group. Joint efforts to tackle what remains of the group in Syria are expected to be high on the agenda during...