Olivia de Havilland, one of the stars of Hollywood’s Golden Age, celebrates another year of life. The multiple-time Oscar winner, known for her performance as Melanie Wilkes in the 1939 film “Gone with the Wind,” called on her 104th birthday Wednesday. De Havilland, who was born in Tokyo to British …
Read More »John Bolton’s memoirs sold a staggering 780,000 copies in his first week on sale
Simon & Schuster, the book’s publisher, said Wednesday that it has sold more than 780,000 copies so far. The total included hard copies, e-books, audiobooks plus “consumer orders that have yet to be met due to extraordinary demand,” the editor said. Most authors are fortunate to sell tens of thousands …
Read More »Cases Rise at Sunbelt, Other States Fall Back on Reopening
NEW YORK – California closed bars, theaters and restaurants in restaurants again in most of the state on Wednesday, and the Arizona outbreak became more severe in almost all measures as the growing coronavirus crisis in the south and west caused A chill across the country. The advance in confirmed …
Read More »The large hadron collider has just discovered a new particle
Enchanting discovery Physicists at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider have just discovered a new type of subatomic particle, and its composition is a world first. The still-unnamed particle is the first, that we know of, which is made up entirely of the same type of quark, which is a building block …
Read More »Why does Earth have a stubborn cold spot that is cooling?
The earth heats up relentlessly. Therefore, it is strange that there is a persistent “cold drop” in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. The cold drop (also known as a “warming hole”) is like a dazzling pimple, easily evident on recent NASA surface temperature maps. Overall, the ocean’s surface has …
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