Spanish Flu

By Chris Pickles, Local Journalism Initiative ReporterGrimsby Lincoln News Mon., April 18, 2022timer1 min. read A new exhibit in Grimsby Museum examines the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic, one of the most devastating outbreaks in human history. Through text panels, photographs and original artifacts, Grimsby Museum aims to teach visitors about…

There’s a moment in Our Country Friends, a 2021 novel by Gary Shteyngart, when all the paranoia, uncertainty, and disagreement comes to a blissful end. The central figure, a failing writer named Sasha, has returned to New York City with his friends and family after months at his compound upstate,…

A plan for collecting debris in space has earned a group of Park Ridge sixth-grade girls a chance to build and design a project for NASA. The team of five students from Karl Ochsner’s STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art and math) class at St. Paul of the Cross Catholic School…

Published: 12:00am, 29 Jan, 2022 Updated: 12:51am, 29 Jan, 2022 Read More

HELSINKI — China’s Shijian-21 space debris mitigation satellite has docked with a defunct Chinese satellite to drastically alter its geostationary orbit, demonstrating capabilities only previously exhibited by the United States. Data and tracking from space monitoring firms show that Shijian-21 has been conducting sophisticated rendezvous and proximity operations (RPO) with…

Aerospace engineers, led by space environmentalist Moriba Jah, at The University of Texas at Austin have built a graph database, AstriaGraph, to track space junk that is a threat to life on Earth By Brian McKenna, Business Applications Editor Published: 26 Jan 2022 12:00 Moriba Jah, director of computational astronautical…

The oldest man in the world has died aged 112. Spaniard Saturnino de la Fuente was named as the world's oldest man by Guinness World Records. Mr de la Fuente died at his home in Leon, in north-west Spain, according to the state-owned news agency EFE. He was named as…

World War I was in its dying days, but in late October of 1918 Australia was bracing for a new battlefront. Unlike the war, the mass casualties would be on home soil. On October 18 of that year, the SS Mataram, sailing from Singapore, arrived in Darwin carrying a virus that would ultimately kill an…

Author of the article: Lloyd Brown-John COVID-19 has been the second greatest disaster ever to attack Essex County and southwestern Ontario residents. Advertisement This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. With roughly 455 deaths locally of over 27,200 in Canada, the virus ranks second to the…

If we're honest with ourselves, almost however you look at it, they had it worse back then. “COVID-19 Is Now the Deadliest Pandemic in American History,” wrote Time. “Covid Is Officially America’s Deadliest Pandemic As U.S. Fatalities Surpass 1918 Flu Estimates,” said CNBC. “Coronavirus Death Toll In U.S. Eclipses 1918…