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Scientists found a billion-year-old fossil believed to be an ancestor of earth’s very first plants

A group of paleontologists say the tiny freckles they found on a rock could hold the key to understanding the origins of plant life on earth.

The freckles, Virginia Tech researchers say, are actually billion-year-old seaweed microfossils. They substantially push back the current record of the multicelluar green plant by nearly 200 million years, according to the study published on Monday. Previously, the oldest known fossilized green alga was 800 million years old.

The fossils are so tiny — about 2 millimeters in length or the size of a flea — that they are barely visible without a microscope. But despite their miniscule size, researchers said the microplants may have contributed to the evolution of the land plants that appeared nearly 550 million years later.

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Graves holding hands. Catholic woman and her Protestant husband who were not allowed to be buried together (1880s Netherlands)

Religious separation and a taboo marriage in the 19th century in the Netherlands resulted in a pair of graves that had to make an extra effort to reach one another.  

Until 40 years ago, Catholic and protestant establishments in the Netherlands were separate from one another as a result of Pillarisation, a widespread politico-denominational segregation. Churches, supermarkets, and other public places were segregated by religious and political beliefs. 

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Alexandria Vera, a 24-year-old schoolteacher from Houston, Texas, has admitted to having an eight-month affair culminating in an aborted pregnancy with her 13-year-old student.

Investigators said that the illicit relationship began after the boy contacted Vera on Instagram, and they began having sex over the course of nine months.

One fellow student told KTRK that the pair’s flirtation spilled over into the classroom, where the boy once was seen grabbing his teacher’s behind.

Vera claimed to investigators that the boy’s parents knew what was happening, approved of it and let their son stay over at her house and were supportive of her keeping the baby.

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Pennsylvania Church Holds ‘Blessing’ Ceremony Featuring AR-15 Rifles

Worshippers in a Pennsylvania church clutching AR-15 rifles drank holy wine and exchanged wedding vows in a commitment ceremony.

The event at the World Peace and Unification Sanctuary in Newfoundland, Wayne County, led a nearby school to cancel classes.

The Rev. Sean Moon leads the controversial church. He and his wife are known as the king and queen. Moon said in a prayer Wednesday that God gave people the right to bear arms. He held a gold AR-15 rifle throughout the ceremony.

Moon is the son of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, a self-proclaimed messiah who founded the Unification Church, often described as a cult, in the 1950s.

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A young 19-year-old Teddy Roosevelt at Harvard, 1877

As a child, he was more like Samuel L. Jackson’s Mr. Glass in “Unbreakable” than the eventual Rough Rider he would become.

Here’s how the future president describes himself as a child in his autobiography: “Having been a sickly boy, with no natural bodily prowess … I was at first quite unable to hold my own when thrown into contact with other boys of rougher antecedents. I was nervous and timid.”

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Medal of Honor recipient, Master Sergeant Roy Benavidez. He had 37 puncture wounds, exposed intestine, broken jaw, and eyes caked in blood. He was pronounced dead until he spit in the face of a doctor who was zipping him up in a body bag.

A devout Catholic, Benavidez was attending prayer services on May 22, 1968 when he heard a desperate radio plea, “Get us out of here! For God’s sake, get us out!” The cry for assistance came from a 12-man Special Forces Recon team. They had stumbled upon an entire infantry battalion of the Vietnam People’s Army (NVA) of perhaps 1,000 men.

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Young Mongolian Girl with her Hunting Golden Eagle

During the communist period in Kazakhstan, many Kazakhs fled for Mongolia to avoid being forced to abandon their nomadic lifestyle and sent to collective farms.

They settled in Bayan-Ölgii Province and bringing with them their tradition of hunting with eagles.

There are an estimated 250 eagle hunters in Bayan-Ölgii, which is located in the Altai Mountains of western Mongolia.

Their falconry custom involves hunting with golden eagles on horseback, and they primarily hunt red foxes and corsac foxes.

They use eagles to hunt foxes and hares during the cold winter months when it is easier to see the gold colored foxes against the snow.

Each October, Kazakh eagle hunting customs are displayed at the annual Golden Eagle Festival.

Although the Kazakh government has made efforts to lure the practitioners of these Kazakh traditions back to Kazakhstan, most Kazakhs have remained in Mongolia.

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peaky blinders

The real Peaky Blinders who operated in Birmingham in the early 1900s. Pictured from left to right are Henry Fowler, Ernest Bayles, Stephen McHickie and Thomas Gilbert.

The gang was composed largely of young men of lower to middle-classes.

They derived social power from robbery, violence, racketeering, illegal bookmaking and the control of gambling.

The outfit worn by the members of the gang were tailored jackets, lapel overcoats, button waistcoats, silk scarves, bell-bottom trousers, leather boots, and peaked flat caps.

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This guy at school received his first rejection…If you ain’t getting rejected, it’s cus you’re not trying. Keep ya head up King!