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'Walking Dead' spinoffs, 'Interview With the Vampire' can resume with actors' union approval
Read full article: 'Walking Dead' spinoffs, 'Interview With the Vampire' can resume with actors' union approvalTwo spinoffs of “The Walking Dead” and the next season of “Interview With the Vampire” will be resuming production despite the Hollywood strikes after reaching a deal with the actors' union.
‘Finest wooden shipwreck’ discovered more than 100 years after it sank in Antarctica
Read full article: ‘Finest wooden shipwreck’ discovered more than 100 years after it sank in AntarcticaEndurance belonged to Sir Ernest Shackleton, who led a crew of 27-men and 69 dogs who attempted to traverse the continent via the South Pole and establish a base on the coast of the Weddell Sea.
Dems: Discovery, AT&T merger will hurt diversity, workers
Read full article: Dems: Discovery, AT&T merger will hurt diversity, workersHouse Democrats are raising concerns that the proposed merger of Discovery and AT&T’s WarnerMedia, a $43 billion effort to conquer the world of streaming, could affect diversity efforts in Hollywood and particularly hurt Latinos, who are already deeply underrepresented.
Israeli experts announce discovery of more Dead Sea scrolls
Read full article: Israeli experts announce discovery of more Dead Sea scrollsThe Israel Antiquities Authority displays newly discovered Dead Sea Scroll fragments at the Dead Sea scrolls conservation lab in Jerusalem, Tuesday, March 16, 2021. Israeli archaeologists on Tuesday announced the discovery of dozens of new Dead Sea Scroll fragments bearing a biblical text found in a desert cave and believed hidden during a Jewish revolt against Rome nearly 1,900 years ago. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)JERUSALEM – Israeli archaeologists on Tuesday announced the discovery of dozens of Dead Sea Scroll fragments bearing a biblical text found in a desert cave and believed hidden during a Jewish revolt against Rome nearly 1,900 years ago. The Dead Sea Scrolls, a collection of Jewish texts found in desert caves in the West Bank near Qumran in the 1940s and 1950s, date from the third century B.C. There are slight differences and some of those differences are important,” said Joe Uziel, head of the antiquities authority's Dead Sea Scrolls unit.
Egypt unveils ancient coffins, statues found in Saqqara
Read full article: Egypt unveils ancient coffins, statues found in SaqqaraJournalists gather around an ancient sarcophagus more than 2500 years old, discovered in a vast necropolis and Mostafa Waziri, the secretary-general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, center, in Saqqara, Giza, Egypt, Saturday, Nov. 14, 2020. Egyptian antiquities officials on Saturday announced the discovery of at least 100 ancient coffins, some with mummies inside, and around 40 gilded statues south of Cairo. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)CAIRO – Egyptian antiquities officials on Saturday announced the discovery of at least 100 ancient coffins, some with mummies inside, and around 40 gilded statues in a vast Pharaonic necropolis south of Cairo. He said they would announce another discovery at the Saqqara necropolis later this year. The discovery at the famed necropolis is the latest in a series of archaeological finds in Egypt.
Documentary tries to prove existence of dead Lincoln photo
Read full article: Documentary tries to prove existence of dead Lincoln photo“I've seen enough of these things to know that this is a whole lot of hysteria about something that is not Lincoln,” said Harold Holzer, whose 1984 book, “The Lincoln Image: Abraham Lincoln and the Popular Print,” traced the 130 known photographs of the former president. Braun goes through a lengthy process herself, consulting with facial recognition experts, medical experts, a ballistics expert, Lincoln scholars and descendants of Ulke. The facial experts said the man in the image had a slight scar under the lip consistent with one Lincoln had. The image has been seen by several people in the community of Lincoln experts and is not believed, Holzer said. In one of the last photographs of Lincoln taken alive, his once-full beard was wispy, almost a goatee, he said.
2 dead after pendulum ride breaks at amusement park
Read full article: 2 dead after pendulum ride breaks at amusement parkAHMEDABAD, India - Two people were killed after a popular ride broke at an amusement park in India over the weekend. Dozens were also injured, three critically, when the Discovery pendulum attraction at Ahmedabad's Kankaria Lakefront park broke, sending passengers crashing to the ground. #Ahmedabad video two dead more than fifteen injured as pendulum ride broke down at Kankaria Lakefront @MumbaiMirror pic.twitter.com/rLl3xYcu6Q Vinay Dalvi (@VinayMIRROR) July 15, 2019A cable on the ride snapped, which send the pendulum falling nearly 20 feet to the ground. The ride works when the main shaft with seats at the circular end is counter-balanced by a weight" said chief fire officer M.F. "When the cable snapped, the welding along the shaft came off and the carriage also fell."
Hubble Space Telescope spots 'soccer balls' in space
Read full article: Hubble Space Telescope spots 'soccer balls' in spaceIn this NASA handout, the Hubble Space Telescope drifts through space in a picture taken from the space shuttle Discovery during Hubble's second servicing mission in 1997. (CNN) - The Hubble Space Telescope has identified soccer ball-shaped molecules amid the gas and dust that fills the space beyond our solar system and between other star systems. That space is known as the interstellar medium or ISM, and Hubble is exposing some of the mysterious electrically charged molecules within it. Some of the compounds that make up the interstellar medium block or absorb different wavelengths of starlight as it passes through this space. Life as we know it is carbon-based, and now carbon has been shown to form and survive in the harsh and exposed interstellar medium.