The final featured two African-American women not named "Williams".Volante wrote: ↑Tue Sep 12, 2017 9:45 am https://deadspin.com/sloane-stephens-do ... 1802965222
Sloane Stephens (unseeded in the tournament, 83rd in the world at the time) wins the US Open after defeating Venus Williams and Madison Keys.
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Miss America 2018, Cara Mund, is the first Miss North Dakota winner.
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The great Rafa Nadal won the US Open for the 3rd time. It is Rafa's 16th overall GrandSlam plus he won the Olympic Gold in tennis a few years back!
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Ms. Mund is also a fellow alum of Brown University.MarkBarrett wrote: ↑Tue Sep 12, 2017 10:45 pm Miss America 2018, Cara Mund, is the first Miss North Dakota winner.
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Selena Gomez got a kidney transplant over summer after complications with Lupus. Somehow no paparazzi found out.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-peop ... SKCN1BP1TG
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-peop ... SKCN1BP1TG
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Crayola, which retired Dandelion from its 24-crayon set earlier this year, will introduce a new color called "Bluetiful". The name was selected by online vote.
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Durn. I was hoping for Boaty McBoatface againBlue Lion wrote: ↑Thu Sep 14, 2017 1:37 pm Crayola, which retired Dandelion from its 24-crayon set earlier this year, will introduce a new color called "Bluetiful". The name was selected by online vote.
https://www.yahoo.com/gma/crayola-names ... style.html
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Crayony McCrayonfaceWoof wrote: ↑Thu Sep 14, 2017 2:20 pmDurn. I was hoping for Boaty McBoatface againBlue Lion wrote: ↑Thu Sep 14, 2017 1:37 pm Crayola, which retired Dandelion from its 24-crayon set earlier this year, will introduce a new color called "Bluetiful". The name was selected by online vote.
https://www.yahoo.com/gma/crayola-names ... style.html
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Now THAT is amazing!Volante wrote: ↑Thu Sep 14, 2017 11:21 am Selena Gomez got a kidney transplant over summer after complications with Lupus. Somehow no paparazzi found out.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-peop ... SKCN1BP1TG
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Former world middleweight champion boxer Jake La Motta died at the age of 95. La Motta, who fought Sugar Ray Robinson six times (Robinson won five of the six fights) was made famous to younger generations with the release of Raging Bull (1980). Robert Di Niro won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of La Motta in that film.
http://www.espn.com/boxing/story/_/id/2 ... ies-age-95
Of local interest (to me, anyway) is that several of La Motta's most memorable fights took place at iconic Detroit sports venues: Olympia Stadium and Briggs (later Tiger) Stadium.
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Of local interest (to me, anyway) is that several of La Motta's most memorable fights took place at iconic Detroit sports venues: Olympia Stadium and Briggs (later Tiger) Stadium.
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Liliane Bettencourt, heiress to L'Oréal, died yesterday at 94. According to the most recent Forbes list, she was the world's richest woman and 14th richest person.
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She came up on Jeopardy on June 19 of this year (Single Jeopardy; Category: "Names You Should Know"; $600). The clue was, From this company Liliane Bettencourt can say, "Because I'm worth it" [$36 billion]". The answer was "What is L’Oreal?"mfc248 wrote: ↑Fri Sep 22, 2017 9:29 pm Liliane Bettencourt, heiress to L'Oréal, died yesterday at 94. According to the most recent Forbes list, she was the world's richest woman and 14th richest person.
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Killing England: The Brutal Struggle for American Independence by Bill O'Reilly & Martin Dugard
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Hugh Hefner, founder of Playboy dies at 91.
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Nobel season again!
The 2017 prize in physiology or medicine goes to US scientists Jeffrey Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael Young for their work studying the human body's circadian rhythm, i.e., clock.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-41468229
The 2017 prize in physiology or medicine goes to US scientists Jeffrey Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael Young for their work studying the human body's circadian rhythm, i.e., clock.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-41468229
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-41476648
Nobel week day 2, Physics.
Gravitational waves! (Finally...)
Rainer Weiss, Kip Thorne and Barry Barish will share the nine million kronor (£831,000) prize.
Interesting side trivia that probably won't be a clue, Kip Thorne was a consultant for Nolan's Interstellar and wrote a book behind the science of it.
Nobel week day 2, Physics.
Gravitational waves! (Finally...)
Rainer Weiss, Kip Thorne and Barry Barish will share the nine million kronor (£831,000) prize.
Interesting side trivia that probably won't be a clue, Kip Thorne was a consultant for Nolan's Interstellar and wrote a book behind the science of it.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-41495621
Chemistry!
Chemistry!
In an interesting bit of synergy:Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson will share the nine million kronor (£831,000) prize.
They developed a technique called cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM), which simplifies the process for looking at the machinery of life.
The process makes it possible for life's molecular building blocks to be captured mid-movement and allowed scientists to visualise processes that had never before been seen.
Cryo-electron microscopy has been used to capture images of ... the molecular structures governing circadian rhythm - the subject of this year's medicine and physiology Nobel.
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Since nobody has posted it yet ... Stephen Paddock kills (at least) 59 people at a concert in Las Vegas.
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Or, if Shania's a little old for you, you can get Miley Cyrus's new album, Younger Now.