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Rocket shelling

IDF strikes Hamas compounds in Gaza, revokes concessions

Several Hamas compounds were attacked by Israeli jets and helicopters in central Gaza overnight Saturday in reprisal for Palestinian twin rocket attack on Kibbutz Kissufim. Israel also cancelled concessions to the territory due to go into effect on Sunday, including an expanded fishing zone off the Gaza Strip, 500 permits…

bubmagFebruary 16, 2020

CCTV

PM Modi to launch the Kashi Mahakal Express today; check fares, schedule, other details

The latest private train by IRCTC will run between Varanasi and Indore. The commercial services will begin from February 20Prime Minister Modi will launch the Kashi Mahakal Express on Sunday, February 16. This latest private train by the IRCTC will run between Varanasi and Indore. The commercial service of the…

bubmagFebruary 16, 2020

Slavery Abolition

Lincoln’s legacy offers lessons in statesmanship

By Steven SpearieThe Associated PressSun., Feb. 16, 2020timer4 min. readSPRINGFIELD, Ill. - In an aptly named permanent exhibit of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum called The Whispering Gallery, visitors are visually and audibly confronted with political cartoons and newspapers from the 1860s against the backdrop of a soundtrack critical of…

bubmagFebruary 16, 2020

Economic Bubble

The Rise and Fall of Danchi, Japan’s Largest Social Housing Experiment

The Rise and Fall of Danchi, Japan’s Largest Social Housing Experiment © Tatiana Knoroz Japanese mass housing from the 1960s is a fascinating cross-cultural experiment that merged Western and Soviet modernist typologies with traditional Japanese elements. Once a symbol of a new “modernized” way of life, it has since become…

bubmagFebruary 16, 2020

Brexit

Will Scottish independence be the first challenge after Brexit?

In the singing of Auld Lang Syne, the UK left the European Union on January 31, ending its 47-year membership of the world's biggest trading bloc. The quit perhaps temporarily ends the bargain between Westminster and Brussels, but the Scottish song which celebrates enduring friendship also rekindles the enduring call…

bubmagFebruary 16, 2020

Auschwitz-Birkenau

Book excerpt: “Survivors Club: The True Story of a Very Young Prisoner of Auschwitz”

In the New York Times-bestselling memoir "Survivors Club: The True Story of a Very Young Prisoner of Auschwitz" (Farrar Straus Giroux), Michael Bornstein (along with his co-author, Debbie Bornstein Holinstat) writes about his horrifying experience as a child who, at age four, was in the Nazis' concentration camp with his…

bubmagFebruary 16, 2020

Auschwitz-Birkenau

A return to Auschwitz, 75 years after liberation

The pictures were an afterthought. Once Soviet soldiers had liberated Auschwitz in January 1945, they realized they needed a record. They needed to show the world the horror they had discovered. So, they dressed survivors back up in their uniforms and paraded them around for the cameras.Who were they, these…

bubmagFebruary 16, 2020

Virtual Reality

SteamVR beta adds new dashboard, Oculus Quest icon

The beta version of SteamVR now has an all-new interface, as well as adding an icon for Oculus Quest in Oculus Link mode. SteamVR is Valve’s PC virtual reality platform for Windows, macOS, and Linux. The runtime is downloaded and updated via Steam. SteamVR supports all PC VR headsets, so…

bubmagFebruary 16, 2020

Greenland

More than half of humanity lives within this circle

The earth's population is not spread out equally over its surface, as you probably know. The population density of Greenland, for example, is just 0.1/sq. mi—that is, one person living on every ten square miles of rock and ice. But it's a lot easier to find company in Manila, which…

bubmagFebruary 16, 2020

Paul Newman

Author-Playwright A.E. Hotchner dead at 102

A.E. Hotchner, a well-traveled author, playwright and gadabout whose street smarts and famous pals led to a loving, but litigated memoir of Ernest Hemingway, business adventures with Paul Newman and a book about his Depression-era childhood that became a Steven Soderbergh film, died Saturday at age 102. He died at…

bubmagFebruary 16, 2020

IDF strikes Hamas compounds in Gaza, revokes concessions

PM Modi to launch the Kashi Mahakal Express today; check fares, schedule, other details

Lincoln’s legacy offers lessons in statesmanship

The Rise and Fall of Danchi, Japan’s Largest Social Housing Experiment

Will Scottish independence be the first challenge after Brexit?

Book excerpt: “Survivors Club: The True Story of a Very Young Prisoner of Auschwitz”

A return to Auschwitz, 75 years after liberation

SteamVR beta adds new dashboard, Oculus Quest icon

More than half of humanity lives within this circle

Author-Playwright A.E. Hotchner dead at 102

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