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A Greek woman named Phryne became an iconic figure in ancient Athens, remembered for the extraordinary moment when her beauty purportedly saved her life. Not many people in history can claim that they were so close to being imprisoned, or worse, executed for something they had committed, but whose beauty saved their lives, but this was the case for the ancient Greek woman. Phryne’s life in the shadow of impiety in ancient Athens Phryne lived in Athens during the fourth century BC. She was born in Thespiae in Boeotia around 371 BC before moving to Athens, ancient Greece’s epicenter. The...

Wirskye also shared texts in which Anthony expressed being “on the verge” and fantasized about stabbing someone and licking the blood from the blade. The prosecutor told the court that Anthony’s girlfriend, Valeria Perez, went to school officials that very morning and reported that she had broken up with him and that he was stalking her. Roughly one hour later, Metcalf was stabbed to death under the Memorial High School tent at David Kuykendall Stadium. He died in his twin brother's arms. Text messages recovered from that morning show Anthony writing “I’m low key on the verge,” a statement Wirskye...

What if I were to tell you that every single United States President, except one, are all related to each other? This is what was revealed on a Special Episode of Secret America, called “It’s All Connected”. Forget Republican versus Democrat. Forget conservative versus liberal. Follow the bloodline and you’ll find that nearly every American president ends up connected to the same ancestor: King John “Lackland” of England. From George Washington to Abraham Lincoln, Barack Obama to Donald Trump. All have the same blood running through their veins. The one famous exception? Martin Van Buren. The connection was uncovered in...

NARRAGANSETT, R.I. — Crews in Rhode Island had quite a mess to clean up after a tractor-trailer carrying 20 tons of squid was involved in a crash, spilling its load. The crash happened in Narragansett, Rhode Island, WFXT reported. Narragansett Police said the tractor-trailer had been “negotiating” a turn when the trailer dislodged from the cab and flipped on its side, ABC News reported. The squid covered parts of the road as crews had to clean up the slippery, and possibly worse, smelly mess on Aug. 16. “At the time of the incident, the fully loaded trailer was transporting squid...

The earthworm eels look, well, just like an earthworm. Image credit: Ishan Agarwal (CC BY) ========================================================================== Avideo of an unusual earthworm-like fish posted on TikTok has resulted in the description of an entirely new species. Named Gangaichthys indonepalicus, the fish is thought to live deep underground in aquifers, making studying these animals almost impossible. “We came across a video posted on the social media platform TikTok in 2024 from the India-Nepal border area that showed a tiny, apparently stygobitic fish, with little melanin and reduced eyes, that had emerged from a borewell (a machine-drilled shaft used to access groundwater from...

OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, reported a 25-year-old South Palm Beach man to the FBI after he shared detailed plans to rape and murder his ex-girlfriend. "I'm gonna kill her by the end of this month," Darren Zhou told the chatbot, his messages preserved in court records. "If I can't have her then nobody can." Investigators say Zhou, a since-fired Goldman Sachs analyst, turned to ChatGPT in March to discuss his recent breakup with a girlfriend of six months. He recounted her hobbies, the places she frequented, his jealousy of the men around her and his desire to get back...

Israel Police announce that missing mother and daughter Mali and Liel Yahalomi were located alive on a bus in Buenos Aires. Police official: They accumulated financial debts. ....The Israel Police announced on Friday evening that mother and daughter Mali and Liel Yahalomi, who had been missing since last Friday, have been found alive. Footage released by the Israel Police showed the two being located aboard a bus in Buenos Aires, Argentina. .....

I am a Marvel Comic Universe SUPERHERO. I AM CAPTAIN FREE-STUFF!My superpower is to acquire expensive things and pay nothing!Here is my Marvel Comic Universe picture. BTW, the face actually looks a lot like mine, without glasses and if I let my facial hair grow:So, why am I Captain Free-Stuff? Well, I will tell you! After purchasing my new home, I have, in addition to the 1620 sq ft upstairs, another 1620 sq ft of semi-finished basement. I plan to cut out about 7-800 sq ft and make it an elegant downstairs apartment. It has double-glass doors that allow entry...

As Japan endures another summer of oppressive heat waves, innovative technology and extreme cooling solutions are taking centre stage. On July 23, CNN's correspondent Hanako Montgomery shared a hands-on look at a new gadget tested in Tokyo: a human-sized, glass-doored portable refrigerator designed to give people a brief respite from sweltering outdoor temperatures. In the Instagram video, stepping inside the freestanding metallic cabin, she took a seat on a built-in bench as the glass door shut behind her. "Oh, it is chilly," she remarked as the unit rapidly dropped the surrounding temperature, adding, “This isn't a fridge for food. It's...

With recent wildfires causing widespread destruction in Southern California, how would you feel about someone profiting off of the devastating loss of your home or community? It turns out, people are placing bets on wildfires on prediction markets like Polymarket, and now California lawmakers are calling for a crackdown on the concerning new trend, warning those bets could create an incentive for arson. ... They’re urging the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to implement what they call “common sense guardrails” to prevent people from profiting off of the suffering and devastation on digital gambling sites. “It’s important to point out that...

VIDEO AT LINK.............. The Australian Football League (AFL) is allowing a 6′-3″, 200-pound man pretending to be a woman to play in women’s competitions, despite safety concerns over his physical advantage. Anthony “Freya” Golding, who previously played in the senior men’s division, now plays for the Westminster Old Scholars in the Adelaide Footy League for women. His place on the women’s team drew scrutiny after three different clubs with the league submitted formal complaints and accused him of placing female players at risk. The clubs also said the AFL had a “duty of care” to block him from playing on...

Sometimes, bravery is found in unexpected places. The recording artist known as Boy George was so moved by an exhibition in London dedicated to the Jews slaughtered, tortured, sexually assaulted and abducted on Oct. 7, 2023, at the Nova Music Festival in Israel — “The Moment Music Stood Still” — he recorded the hauntingly beautiful reggae tune “We Will Dance Again.” Some of the lyrics are openly supportive of the Jewish state, a risky move for an entertainer in the current climate. “You say genocide, I say war / When you’re attacked, that’s what the army’s for. “Does it get...

Celebrity blogger Perez Hilton shocked viewers on Tuesday evening as he appeared to violently cut himself during a TikTok livestream. TikTok suspended the account. Video of the shocking self-harm was reposted to X on Tuesday evening with calls to pray for Perez Hilton. The disturbing video shows a fully nude Perez Hilton covered in blood as he uses a knife to cut himself. Perez Hilton's status is unknown. Perez Hilton's legal name is Mario Armando Lavandeira Jr., and he is best known for his celebrity gossip blog PerezHilton.com. Perez Hilton has three biological children - a son and two daughters,...

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Dashcam video from a Tesla on Philadelphia's I-76 caught a horrifying moment on camera this week, when a tire barreling down the highway slammed headfirst into a moving car. The tire is seen in one clip bouncing down the highway median before hitting a Nissan SUV in the left lane. The car's hood was smashed in, and the impact shattered its windshield. The tire was launched straight into the air on the busy highway. It is currently unclear where the tire came from. It is also unknown whether anybody was injured in the wreck. WATCH: VIDEO AT LINK.................. The incident...

Boston will host the second-ever National Urban Rat Summit this fall, according to City Hall.

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The Skid Row Care Campus—funded by local, state, and federal dollars—handed us drug paraphernalia. As governor of California, Gavin Newsom has repeatedly supported “harm reduction” policies, which enable drug use in the name of making it “safer.” He created the state’s Harm Reduction Initiative, which funded “syringe services programs” for “people who inject and smoke fentanyl and/or methamphetamines.” His Department of Public Health has endorsed distributing syringes, glass pipes, and “[c]ontainers for mixing injectable drugs” to drug users. Newsom argued earlier this year that harm-reduction tactics “increase the like­li­hood of people enter­ing sub­stance use treat­ment.” But do California’s harm-reduction programs...

Federal agents came across a lot more than cocaine, guns and cash when they searched the home of a suspected drug trafficker in the South Valley last week. Agents also discovered more than 50 venomous snakes, including pit vipers, cobras and the inland taipan — the most venomous snake in the world — according to search warrants unsealed Monday in U.S. District Court for New Mexico. According to a NM Department of Wildlife seizure inventory, the snakes included king and spitting cobras, Fer-de-lance, black and green mambas, numerous varieties of pit vipers and reticulated pythons. Many of the snakes, some...

Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agents discovered stolen Civil War-era cannonballs in checked luggage at an Alabama airport on July 18, according to a TSA announcement. Lead TSA Officer Justin Dupree surveyed the historical artifacts on his X-ray screen after Gulf Shores International Airport security technology flagged the bag, the TSA press release stated. Upon inspection, Dupree wondered whether the opaque object might be a medicine ball before becoming concerned. “My first thought was, ‘I couldn’t see a fuse and need to get some help quick,’” Dupree said. “I couldn’t see the entire item but was scared I might have been...