Which means I’m at a bigger risk for dying by slipping on a banana peel. Two people died that way in the 20th century: Once in 1917 and another in 1927. The 1917 case was a chauffeur in Brooklyn; the 1927 case was a 74-year-old man in Tennessee. But bananas…
A paralysed man with a severed spinal cord has been able to walk again, thanks to an implant developed by a team of Swiss researchers. It is the first time someone who has had a complete cut to their spinal cord has been able to walk freely. There is potential…
informal. : a large amount of money to spend expensive cars for people with money to burn. to spend a lot of money on things that are not necessary: I don’t know what her job is but she certainly seems to have money to burn. If you say that someone…
A 25-year-old man has died following a 60-metre fall from a cliff face on a Snowdonia mountain.It happened at around midday on Sunday, on the cliffs of Glyder Fach, while the man was out with another climbing partner. A person has died after plunging from a notorious ridge on Snowdon…
Katie Taylor suffered a surprise loss to Yana Alekseevna of Azerbaijan in the semi-final of an Olympic qualifying tournament in Turkey on Friday morning. Alekseevna won the fight by a unanimous decision (39-37 on the cards of all three judges), ending Taylor’s run of 62 consecutive victories dating back five…
Few images are as iconic as the revolving, steel three-sided sign outside New Scotland Yard. That sign has now has been relocated to London’s Metropolitan Police Service’s new headquarters on Victoria Embankment. The force moved from Great Scotland Yard in 1890, to a newly completed building on the Victoria Embankment,…
1- Find your baseline. Your baseline score is the score you would receive if you took the GRE today. … 2- Determine your target GRE score. … 3- Make a plan to close the gap. … 4- Practice for technique. … 5- Mimic real GRE conditions. … 6- Review your…
Even so, scientists have found intact soft tissue in dinosaur bones before. The most famous case dates to 2005, when Mary Schweitzer of North Carolina State University found collagen fibers in the fossilized leg bone of a Tyrannosaurus rex. Further discoveries in the past year have shown that the discovery…
NCAA Final Four teams. Virginia is 3–2 at Final Four events and won the 2019 NCAA Tournament Championship. Virginia is 3–2 at Final Four events and won the 2019 NCAA Tournament Championship. Virginia is making its third-ever Final Four appearance this season. It marks the first time the Cavaliers have…
Considered one of the best swords to have ever been crafted, the Honjo Masamune has lived a storied life over the past seven centuries—but its whereabouts today are a mystery. There is still hope for finding the Honjo Masamune; in 2013 a sword was brought to the Kyoto National Museum…