Meteorite crashes through roof of Canada woman’s home and on to bed | Canada | The Guardian

A fragment from a meteorite is seen in an undated photo issued by the Natural History Museum. A woman in Canada awoke in shock earlier this week when a rock crashed through the ceiling of her home and landed on her bed, narrowly missing her but spraying grit and other debris on her face, as her dog barked frantically.

Police were called and the culprit was initially suspected to be a construction site nearby, where work must have sent the fist-sized projectile onto the woman’s pillow. But when the construction workers said they had not set any blasts – but had just seen an explosion in the sky – the consensus quickly became that the rock was a meteorite, the Canadian Press reported.

Ruth Hamilton had been fast asleep in Golden, a small town amid the Rocky Mountains, in British Columbia, on 3 October when her dog began barking and she woke with a start.

“I’ve never been so scared in my life,” she said. “I wasn’t sure what to do so I called 911 and, when I was speaking with the operator, I flipped over my pillow and saw that a rock had slipped between two pillows.”

It turned out there had been a meteorite shower in the skies above the western Canadian region that night. Hamilton plans to keep the space rock and is very relieved she wasn’t injured.

Source: Meteorite crashes through roof of Canada woman’s home and on to bed | Canada | The Guardian

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Cuenca, 2017

De câte ori vizitez o expoziție de artă contemporană amenajată într-o biserică, îmi place să mă strecor în spatele panourilor de acroșaj ca să mă uit în partea din afara spațiului expozițional, deși înălțimea lor e calculată astfel încât să poată fi observate optim ornamentele arhitecturale.

Întotdeauna am impresia că acele inofensive paravane ascund ceva de ochii profanilor, așa cum pe reversul panourilor unui retablu figurează picturi în completarea imaginilor principale.

Și, de fiecare dată, găsesc același lucru.

Proust nu s-a încumetat, în eseul sau din 1905, să formuleze principii la fel de radicale ca Nietzsche, dar a încercat să nu se lase mai prejos. Atunci când decreta dispariția catedralelor, un profetic eseu despre viitorul religiei în modernitate, sentința lui a trezit spaime.

Nu numai ca n-au pierit, dar bisericile, multe în noua lor formă de sanctuare ale artei contemporane, sunt mai inspiratoare ca oricând.

Pasarela istorică San…

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Heaven’s Entrance|ورودی بهشت

A Voice from Iran

“94th story”

First published: June.06.2019

 

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A man was riding on his horse and his dog was following them. The weather was cloudy, and getting darker.

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Suddenly, a loud thunder stroked and killed the man, his horse, and dog.

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The man didn’t notice that he died and continued riding with his two animals. The dark sky had turned into a beautiful blue one and stunning hills were along their way.

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They all were getting tired and thirsty. On the way, he saw a huge gold-gated entrance with a golden floor and a beautiful fountain in the middle.

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He looked at the guard and asked: “What is this beautiful place?”

The guard replied: “It’s heaven.”

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He said: “Oh thank God, we are thirsty and tired.”

The guard said: “You can get in and drink water but I am very sorry, your dog and horse aren’t allowed to enter.”

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He got very…

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COVID-19, vaccination and the progress of the global healthcare system · Global Voices

Of greatest importance is the age distribution associated with high incomes—they have a small proportion of youngsters in their populations, ranging in Table 1 from 17-25 per cent, and a large number of older folk over 65 years of age, ranging here from 19 per cent to 29 per cent. In addition, these rich nations have a low level of people per individual households (ranging 2-2.4), a high proportion of people living in cities and very high levels of obesity. There is every reason to believe that these elements are causally associated and have led to the high levels of rich-nation Covidity. Source: COVID-19, vaccination and the progress of the global healthcare system · Global Voices