The family of a nurse who died alone at the age 55 in her home where every room was crammed to the ceiling with junk have said they had no idea she lived in mess. Rose and Peter, from Wigan, appeared on the programme Hoarder Homes, No Room to Move on Channel 5 last night as … Read more
For a multi-billionaire, Archegos founder Bill Hwang’s life is modest. Sure, his 6,400 sq ft home is gorgeous by any standards, but it’s dwarfed by those of his neighbors. His black Mercedes CLK reeks of class, but it has nothing on the $325,000 orange McLaren 720S that roars out of the driveway of the house … Read more
For a multi-billionaire, Archegos founder Bill Hwang’s life is modest. Sure, his 6,400 sq ft home is gorgeous by any standards, but it’s dwarfed by those of his neighbors. His black Mercedes CLK reeks of class, but it has nothing on the $325,000 orange McLaren 720S that roars out of the driveway of the house … Read more
Less than one percent of Americans live in nursing homes, but this vulnerable population has made up about one-third of coronavirus deaths. Of the 551,747 people in the U.S. who have died of COVID-19 so far, about 175,000 – 31.7 percent – were nursing home residents, according to an analysis from The COVID Tracking Project. What’s … Read more
‘Forensic artists’ in Scotland have reconstructed the faces of two people from Edinburgh who lived around 700 years ago. A two-person team used fragments of skulls taken from the grounds of South Leith Parish Church in the Scottish capital’s north. The skull fragments were digitally scanned to create a virtual 3D copy on computer software, which … Read more
‘Forensic artists’ in Scotland have reconstructed the faces of two people from Edinburgh who lived around 700 years ago. A two-person team used fragments of skulls taken from the grounds of South Leith Parish Church in the Scottish capital’s north. The skull fragments were digitally scanned to create a virtual 3D copy on computer software, which … Read more
Largest ever flightless bird lived in Australia 50,000 years ago and weighed up to 1,323lbs with a HUGE head more than 1.5 feet long — but its brain was squeezed for space Experts studied fossils of ‘mihirungs’, the name given to Australia’s giant birds The largest, Dromornis stirtoni, was able to reach some 10 feet (3 … Read more
The home secretary has been asked to show ‘compassion and decency’ in the case of a 13-year-old orphan who fled from gangsters in a former Soviet republic and now faces deportation. Giorgi Kakava, 13, was three when he fled to Glasgow, Scotland, from Georgia with his mother Sopio Baikhadze, who died in 2018. In July … Read more
Scientists have discovered a 47-million-year-old fossilized fly with its stomach still full from its last meal. The previously unknown species was found frozen in rock sediment at the Messel Pit, a fertile fossil site in central Germany. Noticing its ‘bulging abdomen,’ researchers discovered the insect was filled with pollen from a variety of prehistoric plants. … Read more
Woolly mammoths roamed what is now New England 12,800 years ago and a new study suggests they shared the landscape with the first humans who arrived in the region some 10,500 years ago. A team from Dartmouth College used radiocarbon dating on a rib fragment from the Mount Holly mammoth uncovered in Vermont in 1848, … Read more