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A 73-year-old woman was stabbed by a 100-pound sailfish while fishing with some friends off the Florida coast. The fish impaled Katherine Perkins, of Arnold, Maryland, in the groin area with its pointed bill on Tuesday while she was standing in the boat as two companions tried to bring it in on a fishing line. Her friends immediately applied pressure to her wound and called 911 as they headed towards shore, where she was then flown to nearby HCA Florida Lawnwood Hospital for treatment. While her current condition remains unknown, Perkins was said to be in the hospital recovering on...

KYIV (Reuters) - As volunteer fighters Oleksandr Zhuhan and Antonina Romanova pack for a return to active duty, they contemplate the unicorn insignia that gives their uniform a rare distinction - a symbol of their status as an LGBTQ couple who are Ukrainian soldiers.Members of Ukraine's LGBTQ community who sign up for the war have taken to sewing the image of the mythical beast into their standard-issue epaulettes just below the national flag. The practice harks back to the 2014 conflict when Russia invaded then annexed the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine, "when lots of people said there are no gay...

A six-year-old girl has died as a result of Russian shelling in the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol, amid attempts to fend off the invaders. The girl was rushed into a city hospital by ambulance after she received mortal injuries during the shelling. Her brown hair was pulled back with a rubber band. Her bloody pyjamas were decorated with cartoon unicorns. She was brought in with her wounded father, his head bloodied and bandaged. medical team fought desperately to revive her as her mother stood outside the ambulance, weeping. A doctor in blue medical scrubs, pumping oxygen into the girl,...

..... Party leaders from across the state, looking to avoid a potential civil war, have been rallying around Rep. Lee Zeldin of Long Island — a Donald Trump-loving conservative who voted to overturn the results of the 2020 election and has fought ardently to oppose abortion rights. Other contenders look much the same and include upstate firebrand Rep. Elise Stefanik and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s son, Andrew Giuliani. Both are also backers of Trump, who lost the state by some 2 million votes last year. The dynamics are not the result of choice or strategy but rather environment....

China may be abusing telecoms' vulnerabilities to spy on Americans’ cellphones through Caribbean phone networks, according to a new report. “No one in the industry wants the public to know the severity of ongoing surveillance attacks,” Gary Miller, a former tech security executive, told the Guardian in a new report published Tuesday. “I want the public to know about it.” Miller based his findings on years spent examining threat reports and signaling traffic between foreign and domestic mobile operators. He told the paper that China may have used Caribbean networks to do the job – Barbados, in particular. At issue...

U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today introduced legislation to eliminate the cost-share payments required of states and communities included in federal disaster declarations in 2020. The Local Community Emergency Relief Act of 2020 is the second Senate proposal offered this week to mitigate coronavirus-related financial burdens affecting states and cities. Not limited to the COVID-19 emergency declaration, the bill would require the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to provide a 100 percent cost share for all federal emergency declarations and major disaster declarations during calendar year 2020. “Cities and states are incurring ongoing revenue losses related to the COVID-19 emergency,...

Did Trump supporters really make a unicorn out of an antifa weirdo?? I just had to ask. :)

A golden retriever puppy in Michigan has been branded a "unicorn" due to an unusual facial feature: having only a single ear, positioned on the top of her head. Rae - "ear" spelled backward - was brought to Family Friends Veterinary Hospital in Grand Rapids as a newborn because she required emergency surgery. The now-12-week-old puppy is now in the care of Brianna Aardema, who was one of the people caring for Rae at the hospital. "The minute I saw her, I knew I wanted to raise her and be there for her even though I knew the road to...

It's 2019. We need to stop shaming women who refuse to succumb to stereotypical gender norms-women have every right to embrace their body hair. Gloriously, the first month of the new year has been dubbed "Januhairy," an ongoing celebration on social media encouraging women to grow out and show off their body hair. Now, women are dynamic, radiant, vibrant beings-so, naturally, Januhairy got really colorful. On Instagram, some women are dying their armpit hair in rainbow shades and calling them #UnicornPits. Girls just wanna have fun.

For a long time it was believed that a giant rhinoceros called Elasmotherium sibericum went extinct around 200,000 years ago — well before the Quaternary megafaunal extinction event, which saw the end of the woolly mammoth, Irish elk and saber-toothed cat. Now improved dating of fossils suggests that the species survived in Eastern Europe and Central Asia until at least 39,000 years ago, overlapping in time with the existence of early modern humans. Today there are just five surviving rhinoceros species, although in the past there have been as many as 250 species at different times.Weighing up to 3.5 tons, Elasmotherium...

I have become a unicorn. My metamorphosis didn’t require a magic spell or potion, or even a trip to a well-reviewed plastic surgeon to add a horn to my head. All it took was Democrats’ treatment of Brett Kavanaugh over the last few weeks to turn me into that elusive creature: a minority, immigrant woman who supports Republicans. I moved to the United States from Trinidad and Tobago eight years ago when I married my husband, Christopher, former U.S. Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia’s eighth (and, in my opinion, most lovable) child. Some people might read that and think, “Well,...

But giant inflatable unicorns are proving less popular with coastguards after a woman was blown out to sea and had to be rescued from one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes. She was one of 15 people rescued along the south coast by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency in just one evening after their inflatables veered off course. A pink flamingo and a swan were also involved.

The Donald and Kim Jung Un Riding a unicorn!

Move aside hourglass, there's a new marshmallow in town. Lucky Charms has unveiled its first new marshmallow in 10 years - the magical unicorn! Earlier this month, General Mills announced it was retiring the hourglass marshmallow. Lucky Charms then asked social media users to vote on which marshmallow they would like to see next - by answering with an emoji... And, sure enough, the newest marshmallow is also an emoji - the unicorn.

Spikes new Snowflake Lower. Selector options "safe space", "triggered", and "full library" http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2017/09/25/nuff-said-spikes-tactical-snowflake-lower/

The internet has lost its mind over the limited-edition Unicorn Frappuccino – and apparently so have Starbucks baristas. The sugary frozen drink that changes flavor and color with a stir of the straw debuted on Wednesday and is only available until Sunday. A young man who is a Starbucks barista in Colorado described the “insane” scene at his location. “I have never been so stressed out in my entire life,” Braden Burson said in a video that’s going viral on Twitter. “My hands are completely sticky.” He says people were coming in left and right on Wednesday. “If you love...

Yesterday was fun. Well, except for the Orange Bowl. I’ve already gotten over that bitter loss however; that’s what adults do, they get over things. Butt I mean the Batman thing, it was fun wasn’t it?So I thought it would be fun to continue the meme for a little pre-New Year’s Eve fun. Let me know which one is your favorite:Barry – he fights for the unicorns:Trigger warning! Snowflakes report to your safe spaces immediately! Unicorn down, repeat, UNICORN DOWN!The wounded unicorn, spotted by a Russian satellite  Trump - the warrior descended from the Vikings:Hillary – she fights like a...

Okay, you can stop making all those unicorn jokes now: Dreams do come true – sort of. According to a study published in the American Journal of Applied Sciences, the Siberian unicorn – Elasmotherium sibiricum – last walked the Earth about 29,000 years ago. Scientists previously thought the creature with the partially mythical name died out about 350,000 years ago, but a newly discovered fossilized skull reveals it lived here much more recently.The skull was found in the Pavlodar region of Kazakhstan, and scientists hope it will help shed light on how some members of the species apparently were able...

The preserved body of a woolly rhinoceros has revealed new insights into how this now extinct giant animal once lived. The woolly rhino was once one of the most abundant large mammals living in Eurasia, but only a handful of preserved carcasses have been found. Now an analysis of a female woolly rhino found preserved in Siberia reveals that the animal was a herbivore that grazed mainly on cereals, and was similar in size to today's Javan rhino. However, it was slow to reproduce, had a short stubby tail and ears, and was likely driven to extinction in part due...

The largest land mammals that ever lived, Indricotherium and Deinotherium, would have towered over the living African elephant. The tallest on diagram, Indricotherium, an extinct rhino relative, lived during the Eocene to the Oligocene Epoch (37 to 23 million years ago) and reached a mass of 15,000 kg, while Deinotherium (an extinct proboscidean, related to modern elephants) was around from the late-Miocene until the early Pleistocene (8.5 to 2.7 million years ago) and weighed as much as 17,000 Courtesy of Alison Boyer/Yale University Researchers demonstrate that the extinction of dinosaurs 65 million years ago made way for mammals to get...