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Doireann Garrihy gushes she ‘couldn’t be prouder’ of fiance Mark Mehigan and says ‘he is making such a difference’ DOIREANN Garrihy has gushed that she “could not be more proud” of her fiance Mark Mehigan after his book success. The Dancing With The Stars host and her podcast presenter ... 03/28/2024 - 1:54 am | View Link
Red-hot Bilbao face Real challenge with cup final on the horizon Athletic Bilbao have been one of the surprises of the LaLiga season so far, with brilliant displays from brothers Inaki and Nico Williams helping to spur a top-four challenge under the calm guidance ... 03/28/2024 - 12:01 am | View Link
Luxury tourist train will not stop in Almeria Renfe’s reasoning for excluding Almería in the past was that the luxury train was meant to visit World Heritage Sites. However, this argument doesn’t hold up when considering places like Jerez de la ... 03/27/2024 - 8:44 pm | View Link
Faithful line the streets of Seville, Spain, for Holy Week processions Holy Week in Seville is one of Spain’s most impressive, picturesque Catholic traditions. The faithful and members of some 70 community-based brotherhoods and confraternities prepare each year to be ... 03/27/2024 - 11:16 am | View Link
On March 28, Federal Judge Lewis A. Kaplan will sentence former FTX chairman Sam Bankman-Fried on seven separate counts of fraud and conspiracy, with federal prosecutors asking for a sentence of 40 to 50 years behind bars.
In some respects, Bankman-Fried’s story is familiar. He is hardly the first prominent figure in the financial world to face consequences for some very poor decisions.
After weeks of fevered speculation, Catherine, Princess of Wales, revealed on Mar. 22 that she was absent from the public eye not because she was having marital problems or growing out a bad haircut, but because she was being treated for cancer. She and her husband had, she said, “taken time to explain everything to George, Charlotte and Louis in a way that is appropriate for them, and to reassure them that I am going to be OK.” Even before her announcement, however, many cancer survivors who were also parents had already guessed at the truth.
On March 16, 1983, the Country Music Association (CMA) celebrated its 25th anniversary, and I was invited. Buddy Killen, the song publisher who pitched “Heartbreak Hotel” to Elvis Presley, thought “the Black girl from Harvard” might just be the second coming of that hit’s songwriter, Mae Boren Axton. He put me on the guest list and paid for the tickets.
It was a complicated night.
Among the many misperceptions about the Holocaust that well-meaning Hollywood creators have unwittingly perpetuated, the most damaging has been the idea that Jews were passive victims, complacently herded into airless train cars to be exterminated at death camps. Bloody revenge fantasies like Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds aside, realistic accounts of Jewish self-defense in the face of Nazi annihilation have been few and far between.
No one in human history has ever seen an eclipse quite like the one seen by the crew of Apollo 12 on Nov. 21, 1969. Countless billions of us have seen the moon eclipse the sun, casting its shadow on the Earth; countless billions have seen the Earth similarly block solar light, casting a shadow on the moon.
All animals, including humans, have limitations in how they find out about the world. And we humans invent instrumentation to correct for weaknesses in our perceptions of the world. The most basic weakness we have is that our perceptions don’t tell us everything about what’s going on with the world.