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ift.tt/2R5OXEo Eighteen years ago, NFL wide receiver Rae Carruth conspired to kill the woman carrying his child. The woman, Cherica Adams, died. The child, Chancellor Lee Adams, did not. Thomas Lake | Sports Illustrated | Sep 2012 [Full Story] via…

ift.tt/2q4KXsr La Palma is an island that is full of beautiful architecture. You can find ancient pre-hispanic ruins, centuries-old buildings made by early Spanish or Portuguese settlers and modern glass buildings all within several feet from each other. The natural…

ift.tt/2q4Bl0P The platonic ideal of an iceberg is a jagged hunk of ice that looks like a floating mountain crag. But new images from NASA reveal an Antarctic iceberg that is so exquisitely neat in its geometry that it seems…

ift.tt/2q2hj6Y This isn’t rocket science, folks. Republicans would love to get rid of Social Security and Medicare. But they can’t, because Social Security and Medicare are among the most popular of all federal programs. Besides, most Americans have been paying…

TOKYO (Reuters) – Asian stocks were capped and the dollar rose to a one week-high in early Thursday trade after the minutes of the Federal Reserve’s latest meeting showed broad agreement among board members on the need to raise borrowing…

ift.tt/2EtKhXy Monica Vitti, Actor, Shepperton, England, 1965. Diane Von Furstenberg, Fashion Designer, New York, New York, 1979. A dyed-in-the-wool New Yorker, photographer Susan Wood came of age as the conservative values of the 1950s and early ‘60s were boldly stripped…

ift.tt/2AggCgg A short, silent film starring John P. Brawn as the titular fiend, who having gorged himself on Welsh Rarebit — melted cheese on toast — stumbles to bed via a rather hallucinatory encounter with a lamp post and slips…

ift.tt/2CpNfd7 An international team of astronomers has discovered a titanic structure in the early Universe, just two billion years after the Big Bang. This galaxy proto-supercluster, nicknamed Hyperion, is the largest and most massive structure yet found at such a…

ift.tt/2CPkDuv What would it be like to observe the Earth from the Moon? We suit up for a look!  At about 1:14 GMT on December 12, 1972, during Apollo 17 mission’s first EVA (Extravehicular Activity), Eugene Cernan photographed Harrison…

ift.tt/2PCQYaL Since Donald Trump’s fortunes came surging back with the success of “The Apprentice” 14 years ago, his deals have often been scrutinized for the large number of his partners who have ventured to the very edges of the law,…

ift.tt/2PwwcJU When Stephen Hawking died in March at the age of 76, the world mourned a beloved and visionary scientist. But it is some consolation that Hawking’s final paper has now been published on the preprint journal ArXiv, demonstrating that…

ift.tt/2IZxURP Global warming will reach disastrous levels in just 12 years, if the world fails to take “rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes”, according to a recent UN report. The report, issued by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change…

ift.tt/2A8yIRa Turkish security sources say they have proof that journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. They say a smartwatch worn by Khashoggi transmitted audio from inside the building to a phone he had given to…

ift.tt/2RNrEQP Just imagine what it would be like if armed security forces stormed into your home, arrested your loved ones, put them in a concentration camp, and took away your children. This is what happened to the family of 44-year-old…

ift.tt/2OUmwMi Hilma af Klint, Group IX/SUW, The Swan, No. 17, 1915 In 1905, the Swedish female artist Hilma af Klint began cleansing herself, in preparation for a series of artworks that would be executed at the directives of someone named…

ift.tt/2Ohjgei The Salzburger nockerl is a soufflé dessert that rises up from its dish like the snowy mountains surrounding its origin city of Salzburg, Austria. Made from egg, flour, and sugar, the egg whites are carefully whipped into glossy peaks before…

ift.tt/2Pr9wec Thanks to Pedro for suggesting this problem! Every day, a train passes a train station along a straight line track, and the train moves at a constant speed. Two friends, A and B, want to determine how long the…

ift.tt/2OOQZeL A battered American flag flies against a purple sky on Florida’s Shell Point Beach Thursday night. Mark Wallheiser/Getty Images America the Beautiful sings of “purple mountain majesties,” but after deadly Hurricane Michael passed through Florida’s panhandle on Thursday, it…

ift.tt/2EerhMp On paper, Holden’s Time Attack concept, built for the 50th anniversary of their first ever Bathurst 1000 victory, has the fastest acceleration in the world. With the ability to go from 0 to 100km/h (62m/h) in a little over…

ift.tt/2A5N3hq scribe4haxan: Anguish (1879 / Engraving) – by Unknown, after August Friedrich Albrecht Schenck  via ift.tt/2QMA7Te ift.tt/1b8W9aj

ift.tt/2pN3Obc thefugitivesaint: Sascha Schneider (1870-1927), ‘Mammon and His Slave’, 1896 via ift.tt/2IR2ixE ift.tt/1b8W9aj