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Sharp-Shooting Army Vet Saves Bald Eagle Stuck Upside Down in Tree
by Shifra on July 4, 2016Great shot! Via American Mirror. It an incident that is quintessentially American, an Army veteran saw a baby bald eagle trapped high in a tree and decided to do something about it. Jason Galvin says he saw the bird dangling upside down near the end of a tree branch about 75 feet in the air near his cabin in Rush City, Minnesota. Galvin could see the bird’s foot was somehow caught in a rope…. Galvin and his wife Jackie called multiple agencies but they say the government bureaucrats all declined to try to help our national bird. “I told them they were wrong and it was very much alive and somebody needed to help it immediately!” Jackie Galvin says…. “I...
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New Scrabble Star’s Strategy: Shorter Words
by Shifra on May 22, 2016World Scrabble Champion Wellington Jighere Out: QUIXOTRY (365 point) In: DACOIT (36 points), YOW (34) and AAH (17) Via WSJ. Nigeria is beating the West at its own word game, using a strategy that sounds like Scrabble sacrilege. By relentlessly studying short words, this country of 500 languages has risen to dominate English’s top lexical contest. Last November, for the final of Scrabble’s 32-round World Championship in Australia, Nigeria’s winningest wordsmith,Wellington Jighere, defeated Britain’s Lewis Mackay, in a victory that led morning news broadcasts in his homeland half a world away. It was the crowning achievement for a nation that boasts more top-200 Scrabble players than any other country, including the U.K., Nigeria’s former colonizer and one of the board...
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[Video] Israeli Divers Uncover Trove of Shipwrecked Roman Treasure
by Shifra on May 16, 2016Some of the objects date back to the fourth century, while others are from the first and second century. Amazing! Via Israel National News. Two divers found an ancient treasure lurking in the harbor at Caesarea National Park, and after they informed the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) they returned with archaeologists to dive down and recover the ancient statues and coins from the depths. The find, which is the largest assemblage of marine artifacts to be recovered in the last thirty years, was made by divers Ran Feinstein and Ofer Ra’anan of Ra’anana. They will be awarded a certificate of appreciation and a tour of the storerooms of the national treasures for reporting the discovery. Feinstein and Ra’anan went diving...
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Hero Dog Saves Girl From Rattlesnake
by Shifra on May 13, 2016Kudos and prayers for a speedy recovery to Haus! Via NY Post. When a venomous Eastern diamondback rattlesnake appeared in the backyard of a 7-year-old Florida girl, her German shepherd came to her rescue, refusing to back down despite multiple snakebites. And now, hundreds of donors are coming to her family’s rescue, quickly topping the goal of $15,000 Friday on a GoFundMe account to help pay for the antivenin needed to keep the dog alive. Molly DeLuca was playing with her 2-year-old shepherd, named Haus, when the snake showed up on Wednesday. Haus jumped between them and was bitten three times, suffering damage to his kidneys. Vets are now expecting a full recovery…. ****************************************************
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[Video] Cat Defies Firemen’s Awful Rescue Attempt
by Shifra on May 11, 2016Thankfully, this cat has very quick reflexes 🙂 HT Telegraph. Tightroping cat defies firemen's awful rescue… by telegraphvideo
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[Video] In the Meantime… Meet the Amazing Collie Agility Master Neo!
by Tammy on May 6, 2016Thanks to Debra Burlingame for bringing this dog with amazing agility abilities to our attention!
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On Holocaust Remembrance Day: Holocaust Photo For The Ages
by bamconola on May 5, 2016**Bumped Up From TAMWire. Posted By Bamconola** Survival, hope and love have the last words against evil. When so much sadness seems to win the day, this article affirms life. Via Today. Jessica Glatt should not, by all accounts, be here. For her to be born, both her grandfather and her grandmother had to survive the Holocaust — they miraculously did, by mere chance and fate. The fact that they went on to live long enough to see the birth of their great granddaughter, Glatt’s oldest child, Harli, was so significant that the family decided to commemorate their meeting with a picture of then 3-month-old Harli holding her great grandfather’s arm, his concentration camp tattoo still etched in his skin...
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Video: Russians Test ‘Terminator Suit’ In Minefield
by Pat_S on April 29, 2016I wonder how this woman was selected for the test. She’s described as a female specialist at the Central Scientific Research Institute for Precision Machine Engineering. Video: Young Russian woman tests newest anti-mine security suit Wearing a special protective suit the specialist strolls through the shooting range at Klimovsk (30 miles south of Moscow), while landmines explode near her and flames burst out of the ground. Regardless of the land mine explosions, the video’s heroine remains safe and takes her mask off in front of the camera at the end. Officials in the Russian government seem to be quite impressed. Dmitry Rogozin, the deputy prime minister of the Russian Federation stated on his Facebook page that, “the Terminator is a...
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Israeli Genealogy Startup Company: Hillary Clinton And Donald Trump Are Related
by Shifra on April 21, 2016Oy vey… Via Jerusalem Post: ….MyHeritage.com, a family history network created by Gilad Japhet in 2003 – which has since expanded to support 42 languages and some 80 million users internationally – found the duo is 18 generations removed from a scandalous royal British affair. Aaron Godfrey, vice president of marketing for the website, said that research performed by MyHeritage.com determined that Clinton and Trump are descendants from an adulterous tryst between John of Gaunt, son of King Edward III, and his mistress, Katherine Swynsord. The two eventually married…. Godfrey noted that anyone can utilize the website’s algorithm-based data base to discover an unusual, or unexpected, branch of any given family tree. “We have the tools for anybody to discover...
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[Video] Artist Uses Vintage Photos To Create Animations Of NYC And DC
by Shifra on April 10, 2016Using old photos, this talented artist created a short “video” of a long-ago era. Via Daily Mail: An artist has created incredibly realistic animations of America in the early 1900s based almost entirely on vintage photos. Alexey Zakharov from Moscow describes his animations as a ‘travel back in time with a little steampunk time machine.’ His latest animation is so flawless that it looks as if you’re watching real antique footage of the streets of New York, Boston, Detroit, Washington D.C…. ****************************************************
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J.K. Rowling’s ‘Harry Potter’ Writing Chair Sells for Nearly $400,000 at Auction
by Tammy on April 7, 2016Wow. Just wow. Via People Magazine. The chair that Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling sat in while writing the first two books of the wizardry series was sold at a New York City auction on Wednesday for $394,000, the Associated Press reports. Rowling, 50, used the chair – which is reportedly one of four mismatched seats that were given to the writer – as she wrote Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. According to the AP, an anonymous buyer made the bid, which far surpassed the seller, Gerald Gray’s, expectations. On the chair are etched in words from Rowling herself, who wrote “Gryffindor,” “I wrote Harry Potter in this chair,” and signed...
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