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Culture of creativity features at Furnal Equinox 2018

27 September, 2020

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Sunday, March 25, 2018 Visual art, fabric art, photography, performance, dance, virtual reality, and music were all the subject of sessions at Furnal Equinox 2018, a conference held from March 16 to 18 at Toronto’s Westin Harbour Castle. Canada’s largest furry convention by attendance, the annual event offers dozens of subculture-specific programs. The convention’s communications […]

Home destroyed by fire in Geneva, Florida

27 September, 2020

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Wednesday, December 15, 2010 A mobile home in Seminole County, Florida burned down last night, leaving a man and his dog homeless. The cause of the blaze was determined as accidental. Firefighters were alerted to a fire in a wooded area of Geneva at around 11 pm local time (0400 UTC) last night. By the […]

13 pilot whales returning to sea, off Western Australia

27 September, 2020

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Monday, April 4, 2005 Rescuers were today sending a pod of 13 pilot whales back into the ocean at Geographe Bay, near to Busselton, south of Perth, in Western Australia. Six additional members of the pod had died during the stranding, including at least one calf. More than 300 people were watching as the whales […]

U.S. superbug expected to emerge in Canada

27 September, 2020

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Wednesday, January 3, 2007 An infectious superbug spreading in the United States is to “emerge in force” in Canada, doctors fear. The bacteria have been reported popping up in day care centers and locker rooms across the U.S. Usually elderly or very ill hospital patients get the disease. More than 2 million U.S. residents are […]

Tim Curry, TV premiere screenings, cosplay feature at Fan Expo Canada

27 September, 2020

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Wednesday, September 6, 2017 Toronto pop culture convention Fan Expo Canada has wrapped for another year. It ran from Thursday to Sunday. Major panels included Tim Curry and the cast of Rocky Horror Picture Show, Beauty and the Beast voices Robby Benson and Paige O’Hara, actors Kathleen Turner, Richard Dreyfuss, Anthony Daniels, Felicia Day, and […]

Women reveal accounts of forced abortion in Scientology

26 September, 2020

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Tuesday, June 15, 2010 Scientology is facing renewed criticism, due to an extensive exposé in the Florida newspaper the St. Petersburg Times which contains revealing accounts of women involved in the organization who say they were forced to have abortions. Multiple different female members of the Scientology group called the Sea Org said they were […]

Raw Opals spend week preparing for London Games

26 September, 2020

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Monday, May 21, 2012 Bruce, Canberra — This past week, an overstocked Australian Opals, the women’s national basketball team, prepared for the 2012 Olympic Games in London with a weeklong training camp at the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) to be used to help narrow the nineteen member Opals squad down to the twelve that […]

Racially motivated text messages surface in other states

26 September, 2020

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Wednesday, December 14, 2005 Following the distribution of text messages which resulted in violence in Sydney, similar messages are appearing around Australia. Retrieved from “https://en.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=Racially_motivated_text_messages_surface_in_other_states&oldid=4360075”

Searching for asteroids, extraterrestrial life a little more rocky: Budget cuts threaten to close Arecibo, world’s largest radio telescope

26 September, 2020

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Friday, July 18, 2008 For nearly half a century the world’s largest telescope, the Arecibo Observatory in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, has been observing our solar system and the universe around it. Completed by Cornell University along with the National Science Foundation (NSF) in 1963, Arecibo’s enormous size gives it the ability to collect more light […]

Highly preserved mammoth presents scientists with blood sample

26 September, 2020

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Friday, May 31, 2013 An extremely well preserved woolly mammoth has been found by Russian scientists in Siberia, announced Wednesday. The adult female was found with blood preserved still intact in ice cavities. When palaeontologists excavated the animal, blood flowed from the space below the animal’s abdomen. The discovery was made on the Lyakhovsky Islands […]