by | Jan 16, 2018 | Culture Music Art
from The New Yorker The Ferocious, Sublime Dolores O’Riordan, of the Cranberries By Amanda Petrusich The Irish singer Dolores O’Riordan, who fronted the alt-rock band the Cranberries since 1989, died on Monday, at the age of forty-six. O’Riordan was managing several...
by | Jan 15, 2018 | Weirdness
from The San Francisco Chronicle 199-MPH Sierra wind gust sets California record By Amy Graff A gust that blasted the summit of a peak at Alpine Meadows in February was the fastest non-tornado wind recorded in the United States in 2017. The 199-mph gust was also the...
by | Jan 14, 2018 | Weirdness
from TIME Why Is Tennis Scored So Weirdly? By MERRILL FABRY Do you have a question about history? Send us your question at history@time .com and you might find your answer in a future edition of Now You Know. All sports have their own vocabularies, the shorthand lingo...
by | Jan 13, 2018 | Weirdness
from RT Giza Pyramid mystery chamber may hold Pharaoh’s ‘meteorite throne’ © Mohamed Abd El Ghany / Reuters A huge void discovered inside the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt late last year may hold an iron throne carved from meteorites, according to new...
by | Jan 12, 2018 | Weirdness
from The Sun BLOODY VIOLENT: Inside the bloody world of hardcore wrestling where fighters brawl with shards of glass, barbed wire bats and fan-made weapons in ultra-violent ‘death matches’ These shocking pictures show hardcore wrestlers fighting until they are...
