On Sunday, the last day of the four day event which began on May 1, fair-play and respect were on show in the finals of the men and women's longsword event.A good time was had by all. See plenty of news and pictures from the event at the Federation’s Facebook page.
Poland's Marcin Waszkielis took the gold in the men's event beating Britain's Lukas Cowal and with women joining the world championships for the first time the USA's Suzanne Elleraas from San Diego made history in Medieval Combat becoming the first female longsword gold medalist.
"We made history for all the women in the world," runner-up Aline Planchon from Belgium said as she stood next her opponent.
"The victim also owns other properties, and one of those pieces of
property is where the suspect resides." Masters said the trailer was
abandoned years ago and stripped of valuables and belongings, but now
the owner doesn't even have four walls to return home to. "She's out the
money that the mobile home was worth and a septic tank," Kelshaw said.
"It will probably go through the court system, and the suspect would
probably have to make restitution if she would be able to."Read about how Häyhä achieved 505 confirmed kills in a war that lasted a little over three months before he was shot, and the fearsome legend that grew up around him, at Damn Interesting.In the municipality of Rautjärvi near the Soviet/Finnish border, 34-year-old Simo Häyhä was a farmer and hunter leading a flagrantly unexciting life. Upon news of the hostilities, he gathered up food, plain white camouflage, and his iron-sighted SAKO M/28-30--a variant of the Soviet Mosin-Nagant rifle--and went to defend his country. Before the four-month war ended, humble Häyhä would gain infamy among the Russian invaders, and come to be known as the "White Death."
Up until a few years ago, and for the majority of his 50-year existence, Peter Parker committed repeated acts of fraud against his employer, The Daily Bugle and its editor-in-chief, J. Jonah Jameson (who would later, as the mayor of New York, employ Parker as a photographer). He sold staged photos of himself as Spider-Man and used his position in the media to influence the public's perception of his actions. Meanwhile, Superman, as award-winning Daily Planet reporter Clark Kent, has reported on himself and given privileged information to his girlfriend, Lois Lane, whose relationship with Superman remains undisclosed.Hypocritically, Snyder does not disclose how his own secret identity compromises his objectivity on this story.
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which was later turned into a Hollywood blockbuster, alien's first
transmission to Earth contained images of Adolf Hitler (uh-oh!) opening
the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. Obviously, they've been watching our
TV. But if you think watching Hitler was bad, imagine getting
transmissions of Jersey Shore, which has just now reached Alpha
Centauri. Needless to say, we are all doomed!
In actuality, the Kola Superdeep Borehole consists of several holes branching from one central hole. The deepest of these, named "SG-3", measures just nine inches in diameter but extends 12,261 meters (or 7.5 miles) into the Earth. That's roughly a third of the way through the Baltic continental crust. To meet scientific objectives and provide a nearly continuous look at the crust's profile, the Soviets even developed instruments to take direct physical measurements at the bottom of the borehole. The drilling apparatus thus allowed for greater measurement integrity since rock samples would deform under their incredible internal pressure when brought to the surface. Needless to say, the project produced enormous amounts of geological data, most of which elucidated how little we know about our planet.Not only geological, but biological discoveries were made at tremendous depths. From looking at the picture above, you'd never know this is a world-record-breaking spot. Read about the Kola Superdeep Borehole and what was found there at Atlas Obscura.
"'Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo' is a grammatically correct sentence in American English.
You've probably heard that birds are distant relatives of dinosaurs. You
also probably heard about that time Kirk Cameron tried to debunk
evolution by badly Photoshopping a crocodile's head to a duck's body,
much to the amusement of the scientific community as well as the
Internet.
| 1770 | Marie Antoinette marries future King Louis XVI of France. | |
| 1863 | At the Battle of Champion's Hill, Union General Ulysess S. Grant repulses the Confederates, driving them into Vicksburg. | |
| 1868 | President Andrew Johnson is acquitted during Senate impeachment, by one vote, cast by Edmund G. Ross. | |
| 1879 | The Treaty of Gandamak between Russia and England sets up the Afghan state. | |
| 1920 | Joan of Arc is canonized in Rome. | |
| 1928 | The first Academy Awards are held in Hollywood. | |
| 1943 | A specially trained and equipped Royal Air Force squadron destroys two river dams in Germany. | |
| 1951 | Chinese Communist Forces launch second step, fifth-phase offensive and gain up to 20 miles of territory. | |
| 1960 | A Big Four summit in Paris collapses because of the American U-2 spy plane affair. | |
| 1963 | After 22 Earth orbits, Gordon Cooper returns to Earth, ending the last mission of Project Mercury. |
The average life expectancy in the world in 2012 was 70 years. In the
United States it's 79 and here in the Netherlands it's 81. As animal
species go, humans are pretty hearty, especially given all these fancy
medicines we've developed.
