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ramonmercado said:

Campaigners hold 'vomiting' protest at Moy Park​

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3d95x21kxro​

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They should have invited my mate Craig. His party trick is he can vomit any time he wants to, he doesn't have to stick his fingers down his throat or eat something nasty. We talked him into performing it for a cheering crowd from a second story window of a pub in Tamworth once.
 

Stonehenge megalith came from Scotland, not Wales, ‘jaw-dropping’ study finds​

Monument’s largest ‘bluestone’ moved more than 450 miles – a discovery researchers say rewrites relationships between Neolithic populations
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For more than a century, archaeologists have known that some of the stones at Stonehenge came from Wales and were transported – somehow – about 125 miles ( 200km) to the site of the Neolithic monument on Salisbury Plain.

Now, a “jaw-dropping” study has revealed that one of Stonehenge’s central megaliths is not Welsh at all – it is actually Scottish.


In a discovery described by one of the scientists involved as “genuinely shocking”, new analysis has found that the largest “bluestone” at Stonehenge was dragged or floated to the site from the very north-east corner of Scotland – a distance of at least 466 miles (about 750km).

Via the Guardian.
 
Ascalon said:

Stonehenge megalith came from Scotland, not Wales, ‘jaw-dropping’ study finds​

Monument’s largest ‘bluestone’ moved more than 450 miles – a discovery researchers say rewrites relationships between Neolithic populations
5616.jpg


For more than a century, archaeologists have known that some of the stones at Stonehenge came from Wales and were transported – somehow – about 125 miles ( 200km) to the site of the Neolithic monument on Salisbury Plain.

Now, a “jaw-dropping” study has revealed that one of Stonehenge’s central megaliths is not Welsh at all – it is actually Scottish.


In a discovery described by one of the scientists involved as “genuinely shocking”, new analysis has found that the largest “bluestone” at Stonehenge was dragged or floated to the site from the very north-east corner of Scotland – a distance of at least 466 miles (about 750km).

Via the Guardian.
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That would have taken years. Not the study, the movement of the stone.
 
Ascalon said:

Stonehenge megalith came from Scotland, not Wales, ‘jaw-dropping’ study finds​

Monument’s largest ‘bluestone’ moved more than 450 miles – a discovery researchers say rewrites relationships between Neolithic populations
5616.jpg


For more than a century, archaeologists have known that some of the stones at Stonehenge came from Wales and were transported – somehow – about 125 miles ( 200km) to the site of the Neolithic monument on Salisbury Plain.

Now, a “jaw-dropping” study has revealed that one of Stonehenge’s central megaliths is not Welsh at all – it is actually Scottish.


In a discovery described by one of the scientists involved as “genuinely shocking”, new analysis has found that the largest “bluestone” at Stonehenge was dragged or floated to the site from the very north-east corner of Scotland – a distance of at least 466 miles (about 750km).

Via the Guardian.
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The most interesting thing here is that this bluestone is old red sandstone. What silly names we humans give things.
 

12-year-old Texas girl dies after parents used smoothies to treat life-threatening injuries​


/WTF

https://www.yahoo.com/news/12-old-texas-girl-dies-203538520.html
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A 12-year-old Texas girl died Monday after her mother and stepfather failed to seek medical attention for four days following life-threatening injuries, instead attempting to nurse her back to health with smoothies, authorities said.

Miranda Sipps, a cheerleader at Jourdanton Junior High School in Christine, Texas, was found in critical condition when her mother called 911 on Monday evening, according to a statement from the Atascosa County Sheriff’s Office. Christine is a small community about 45 miles south of San Antonio.

Emergency responders met Sipps and her mom on the highway after they had left their home, and rushed the unconscious child to the hospital, officials said. Sipps was pronounced dead in the emergency room shortly after her arrival.

An investigation led by the sheriff’s office revealed that Sipps had suffered from severe and life-threatening injuries the previous Thursday. For the following four days, Sipps’ mother and stepfather failed to get her medical assistance even though she was largely unconscious. No other children were in the home.

“She was not talking. She basically could flutter her eyes and move her hands a little bit over a four-day period,” Sheriff David Soward said at a news conference, “and they had her laying on a pallet in the house.”

Soward said that Sipps’ parents attempted to treat her injuries by giving her smoothies with vitamins. As the girl’s condition worsened and she began having trouble breathing on Monday evening, her mother finally called 911.

“They were trying to give her smoothies, but somebody who is unconscious is not able to swallow,” Soward noted.

The mother was identified as 36-year-old Denise Balbaneda and the stepfather as 40-year-old Gerald Gonzales. Both were arrested on Tuesday afternoon and charged with a first-degree felony for injury to a child by omission.

Investigators believed the couple avoided seeking medical attention to prevent law enforcement from coming to their home. Even after calling 911, Balbaneda had chosen to leave their house and meet emergency responders on the road.

The cause of Sipps’ injuries remains under investigation. Soward declined to provide further details, stating only that they were not related to her school, which had begun on Monday. The final autopsy report is pending.
 
kamalktk said:

12-year-old Texas girl dies after parents used smoothies to treat life-threatening injuries​


/WTF

https://www.yahoo.com/news/12-old-texas-girl-dies-203538520.html
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A 12-year-old Texas girl died Monday after her mother and stepfather failed to seek medical attention for four days following life-threatening injuries, instead attempting to nurse her back to health with smoothies, authorities said.

Miranda Sipps, a cheerleader at Jourdanton Junior High School in Christine, Texas, was found in critical condition when her mother called 911 on Monday evening, according to a statement from the Atascosa County Sheriff’s Office. Christine is a small community about 45 miles south of San Antonio.

Emergency responders met Sipps and her mom on the highway after they had left their home, and rushed the unconscious child to the hospital, officials said. Sipps was pronounced dead in the emergency room shortly after her arrival.

An investigation led by the sheriff’s office revealed that Sipps had suffered from severe and life-threatening injuries the previous Thursday. For the following four days, Sipps’ mother and stepfather failed to get her medical assistance even though she was largely unconscious. No other children were in the home.

“She was not talking. She basically could flutter her eyes and move her hands a little bit over a four-day period,” Sheriff David Soward said at a news conference, “and they had her laying on a pallet in the house.”

Soward said that Sipps’ parents attempted to treat her injuries by giving her smoothies with vitamins. As the girl’s condition worsened and she began having trouble breathing on Monday evening, her mother finally called 911.

“They were trying to give her smoothies, but somebody who is unconscious is not able to swallow,” Soward noted.

The mother was identified as 36-year-old Denise Balbaneda and the stepfather as 40-year-old Gerald Gonzales. Both were arrested on Tuesday afternoon and charged with a first-degree felony for injury to a child by omission.

Investigators believed the couple avoided seeking medical attention to prevent law enforcement from coming to their home. Even after calling 911, Balbaneda had chosen to leave their house and meet emergency responders on the road.

The cause of Sipps’ injuries remains under investigation. Soward declined to provide further details, stating only that they were not related to her school, which had begun on Monday. The final autopsy report is pending.
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That is so callous. That poor girl would have suffered greatly.

Sadly, I am guessing child abuse.
 
TikTok blamed for hit to Iceland cucumber supply

Icelandic supermarkets have been left in a pickle, after a viral TikTok trend saw an unprecedented surge in demand for cucumbers - leaving suppliers racing to keep up.

It comes after social media influencers in the small Nordic country began sharing a salad recipe of grated cucumbers, sesame oil, garlic, rice vinegar and chilli oil.

The recipe has been such a hit that farmers in the country have been unable to keep up with spiralling demand.

https://apple.news/ABj6ChBXETo6i05wo3DFFLg

maximus otter
 
maximus otter said:
TikTok blamed for hit to Iceland cucumber supply

Icelandic supermarkets have been left in a pickle, after a viral TikTok trend saw an unprecedented surge in demand for cucumbers - leaving suppliers racing to keep up.

It comes after social media influencers in the small Nordic country began sharing a salad recipe of grated cucumbers, sesame oil, garlic, rice vinegar and chilli oil.

The recipe has been such a hit that farmers in the country have been unable to keep up with spiralling demand.

https://apple.news/ABj6ChBXETo6i05wo3DFFLg

maximus otter
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There were no cucumbers at the market that morning “not even for ready money.”
 
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c20le73e54vo

Has the mystery of a beach 'ghost' railway been solved?​


A lesson for us all here about how folklore develops. "Unexplained" railway tracks found on the beach. One theory was that they were put there during WW2 to help with building military defences. Another theory was that they were used after the war for transporting unexploded mines to a safe place for controlled detonation.

The actual truth: they were put there in 1973 (nearly 30 years after the war) when they were building the sea defences against erosion.

1973 is well within living memory so it is fascinating that the other "explanations" ever gained traction.
 
Considering that in Italy people don't really read a few books, this news is incredible:

https://www.open.online/2024/08/28/...isterioso-acquista-libri-vetrina-10mila-euro/
Milan, enters the historic Hoepli bookstore and buys all the books on display in the window for 10 thousand euros

August 28, 2024 - 21:09
by Alba Romano

On August 22, a (mysterious) customer purchased about 200 volumes on display in the shop a stone's throw from the Duomo. Matteo Hoepli to the “Corriere della Sera”: «I'll tell my children and grandchildren»

«Sorry, we sold everything». This is the writing that appeared yesterday, Tuesday 27 August, on a window of the historic Hoepli bookstore in Milan. A few days ago, a (mysterious) customer entered the shop a stone's throw from the Duomo and bought all the books on display for a sum close to ten thousand euros. «An exceptional sale. I was amazed and found the idea that someone could consider a window display so beautiful that they wanted to buy it in its entirety to be brilliant. We are also talking about a space 5 meters long by 3 meters high", Matteo Hoepli, the last descendant of Ulrico Hoepli, told Corriere della Sera.

The buyer took away almost 200 books: a selection that ranges from art history to photography, from current affairs essays to historical ones. The most expensive is the volume «Bruce Springsteen, Lynn Goldsmith–Limited Edition» published by Taschen, worth 600 euros, then «Carol Rama. Catalogo ragionato 1936-2005» published by Skira at a cost of 350 euros. The cashier was incredulous, and made the man pay by credit card. The latter - the Milanese newspaper points out - loaded everything into a taxi and had them taken home. «This episode - Hoepli concluded - taught us that you never know what can happen. I am the fifth generation of a family business and I don’t remember such an exceptional episode in the stories of my grandparents or great-grandparents. Now I will tell it to my children and grandchildren.”
 
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