Florida: boats heavily packed ashore, 93yo on fanboat, Babcock Ranch weathered Hurricane Ian without loss of power
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Floridians are facing devastating scenes after Hurricane Ian, one of the strongest storms ever to hit the U.S., swept across the state.
The storm, which made landfall in southwest Florida as a powerful Category 4 hurricane Wednesday, flooded numerous buildings and streets, ripped off roofs, left people trapped in their homes and knocked out power to millions of
5th annual European “Land Art” Festival in Dunbar, Scotland: Stone Stacking Championships celebrate connection with beautiful nature, “calm and focus racing minds”
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Every year, a wonderful event celebrating the beauty of nature and humanity’s connection with it takes place over a weekend in Scotland.
The European “Land Art” Festival and Stone Stacking Championships were held for the fifth time in Dunbar on the shores of Scotland. Organized originally as the “John Muir Stone Stacking Challenge,” taking the name
Natural refrigerators: Italian fruit farmers use caves to store 30,000 tonnes of apples and save 32% electricity
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PREDAIA, Italy, Sept 21 (Reuters) – Apple farmers in the north of Italy are using natural refrigerators carved under a hillside to store their harvest in a controlled environment that remains at a constant temperature in all seasons. Three hundred metres beneath their fruit orchards in Predaia, a small town in the Trentino region, the Melinda group has
Dancing, greeting flying ball: “to the game of tennis: I love you and will never leave you” – legendary Federer retires at 41 after 103 ATP titles (since 1998). Effortless quadruple axel in air – 17 year old figure skater Ilia Malinin, first in history
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…far beyond just the public-relations vids and soundbites, Federer demonstrated mostly grace, humility, gratitude, respect for the game, respect for fans, and, on the court, all-around greatness.
When he announced his retirement on social media, he said: “Of all the gifts tennis has given me over the years, the greatest, without a doubt, has been the people I’ve met along the
Alexander von Humboldt (born 14 Sep 1769), geographer, naturalist, explorer, co-founded modern geography science with Carl Ritter, 21 years to journal 5-year journey around world
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Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt (14 September 1769 – 6 May 1859) was a German polymath, geographer, naturalist, explorer, and proponent of Romantic philosophy and science. He was the younger brother of the Prussian minister, philosopher, and linguist Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767–1835). Humboldt’s quantitative work on botanical geography laid the foundation for the field of biogeography.
96-round-gun salute honours the Queen. King Charles III, 1st speech as sovereign, heartfelt tribute to his late mother, “darling mama…” (full speech)
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The King pays tribute to his “darling mama” as he delivers a moving address to the nation The King’s Address in full:
“I speak to you today with feelings of profound sorrow. Throughout her life, Her Majesty The Queen – my beloved Mother – was an inspiration and example to me and to all my family, and we owe her the
Farewell. Double rainbow. Flag down. Notice on gates of Palace. Queen Elizabeth II passed away at 96 on 08Sept22, after Prince Philip on 09Apr21, 73-yr marriage, 70-yr service, longest reign
India Today September 9, 2022 – “A rainbow had appeared right before the announcement happened, and another came up soon after the Queen’s passing when the flag was lowered at her Windsor Castle residence outside London,” AFP reported.
Image courtesy Sky News, The Scottish Sun, buckinghampalaceroyal Instagram, Press Association / AP, Reuters, Chris Jackson / Getty Images
13,000 year-old underground tunnels discovered in Brazil – “non-man-made, not naturally formed”
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In the 1930s, a group of archaeologists and explorers looking for the remains of the Mayan civilization went deep into the rainforest, where they did not find the remains of the Mayan civilization, but unexpectedly discovered many tunnels. Most of these underground tunnels are distributed in Brazil and Argentina. At the same time, there seems to be no unified construction standard for these tunnels.
Tourists fined and expelled from Venice for riding motorized surfboards down Grand Canal, called out by mayor as “overbearing imbeciles who made a mockery” of UNESCO World Heritage Site
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Two surfers filmed whizzing along Venice’s busiest canal have evoked the wrath of the city’s mayor. Videos of the two people foil surfing between boats and water buses on the Grand Canal sparked outrage after being posted online. Surfing – along with sports such as paddle boarding and canoeing – is prohibited on Venice’s Grand Canal. In footage posted online, the two appear to be whizzing
400lb 70-90 yo halibut caught and released by UK fisherman after dragging his boat half a mile
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A city fisherman has hauled in a record-breaking beast of the deep – a whopping 7ft halibut. The largest ever of its species to be caught by a Brit, the 90-year-old creature was caught by Paul Stevens off the coast of Norway.
He managed to catch a halibut thought to be between 70 and 90 years old measuring almost 7.5ft long weighing 400lbs – 28.5
NASA releases new photo of The Cartwheel: a ring galaxy 500 million light-years away in the Sculptor constellation, shaped from a cosmic collision
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See the James Webb Space Telescope’s Dazzling New Photo of the Cartwheel Galaxy
Located 500 million light-years away in the Sculptor constellation, the galaxy got its unique wagon wheel-like shape from a cosmic collision
Several hundred million years ago, astronomers believe the Cartwheel Galaxy collided with another smaller
Fasten belts: Italian mountain lodge restaurant moved across Alps into Switzerland. Melting glacier’s “prank”, no kidding!
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Italy’s rustic hut Rifugio Guide del Cervino is technically two-thirds Swiss due to glacier movement.
Swiss ski resort Zermatt and Italian resort Cervinia share a border and together form the interconnected ski area Matterhorn Ski Paradise. Year-round skiing happens on the shared Plateau Rosa glacier, currently one of the only European glaciers with lifts still turning this summer
Earth runs a fever from pollution. Heatwave melts roofs and runways, cracks bridges and pipes, UK reaches highest temperature on record (104 degrees), blazes in France, Spain, Portugal
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It’s so hot, roads are buckling, they’re putting foil on a bridge and roofs are melting around the world
The deadly heat waves of the last week have sparked strange infrastructural events around the world as millions endure searing temperatures that are still on the rise.
It’s so hot, the runway at a London airport melted
The United Kingdom
“Universe’s magnificence” – jaw-dropping first images from the James Webb Telescope
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This Week’s New Space Images From The Webb Telescope And More Will Make Your Jaw Drop
Webb’s ‘Cosmic Cliffs’
A close-up of the Carina Nebula—a nursery 7,600 light-years distant—shows apparent ridges, valleys and pillars of hot dust and gas. Like all of Webb’s first targets it’s in the southern hemisphere’s night sky—that just happened to be where Webb was pointed during July 2022.