Author: Moha

“The coffin is in a very bad condition, very deteriorated. We found many cracks, we found many missing parts, missing layers.” The outermost coffin that once held the body of King Tutankhamun had never left the 3,300-year-old tomb since the time he was first laid to rest. Even after archaeologist Howard Carter discovered the tomb in 1922, the wooden coffin remained in the Valley of the Kings — until now. Earlier this year, the Getty Conservation Institute…

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It was one of the most iconic photos of the Vietnam War. At the height of the 1968 Tet Offensive, while prisoners were being rounded up in Saigon, General Nguyễn Ngọc Loan casually strolls over to a young man and shoots him in the temple. The photo, taken with one-in-a-million perfect timing as the bullet entered the man’s head, won Eddie Adams the Pulitzer Prize and has been reproduced countless times as an example of the…

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Homeward Bound For anyone who has ever had a pet run away, the worry and fear are overwhelming. For some, it’s the equivalent of losing a family member. You feel totally responsible, and can’t help but think of the worst. You think that another animal has gotten to them, or that they’re hurt in some way. This is especially true if the pet is elderly or disabled. This is exactly what happened with the Cole…

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Honoring Our Veterans A group of students at Catholic Memorial High School, an all-boys college-prep school in West Roxbury, Massachusetts, held a funeral recently for a homeless veteran that they didn’t even know. John T. Fitzmaurice died on Nov. 6 and had no relatives to claim his body. These students heard that this 68-year-old Chelsea veteran would not be given a proper burial, so they decided to take the role of his family and give him the…

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1. Reality Shows Getting Really Real 60 Days In is an A&E show in which seven non-felons go undercover in the Clark County Jail. In case you read that sentence quickly, here’s another way to describe it: Seven people who have no reason to be in jail purposely put themselves in danger for the sake of people’s amusement. Why, you ask? (Or perhaps, “Dear God, why?”) Great question . 2. The Man of the Hour-Long TV…

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Restaurants There’s nothing nicer than making yourself a nice, home-cooked meal. Of course, that’s only true if you can actually cook. More often than not, many of us try, fail miserably and realize we’re better off just going out for a bite to eat. We’ve all been to sit-down restaurants and we’ve all interacted with servers before. Let’s take a moment and give thanks to these often unsung heroes of the customer service industry. While they…

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  A Bad Reputation Social media gets a bad rap – especially Instagram. Critics will talk about how it’s only used for narcissists to post selfies. Instagram has also gotten flack for only displaying the positive parts of people’s lives, which could be harmful to young impressionable people. However, we don’t often consider the positive sides of social media that can be used for good in the world. Emelle Lewis’s story is just one example…

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Researchers believe that the altar dates back to a time after Mesha, king of Moab, successfully led a rebellion against the Kingdom of Israel, and conquered ancient Ataroth which was then under Israel’s rule. The altar that was uncovered shows two distinct inscriptions: one is a text in the ancient Moabite language, which is very similar to Hebrew, and the other is numerals written in Hieratic, an ancient Egyptian writing system. Archaeologists believe that these…

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Aged 20, she wasn’t in the least worried when a happy young couple with a baby pulled over and offered her a lift. But unbeknown to Colleen, the husband Cameron Hooker, 23, was on the prowl for a ‘slave’ to imprison, rape and torture – and Colleen was it. But sat in the back of the car, Colleen soon began to feel uneasy. And when Hooker stopped to let her use the toilet at a…

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You’d think already having a daughter born premature would have prepared me for having a second neonatal journey. But giving birth to twins at 34 weeks at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic was unlike anything I had experienced before. To start with, for the last 10 weeks of my pregnancy, I was going in for weekly scans but for the final four, my husband, Shayne, couldn’t come with me because no visitors were allowed…

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