The Best Suicide Squad Merch: From Harley Quinn Action Figures to Joker Playing Cards
Posted on August 23, 2024
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| Tandra Barner
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“Suicide Squad” is bringing blood, gore and carnage to the big screen this week, with a second star-studded installment that premieres this Friday in theaters and on HBO Max.
[Read More]Warsaw Ghetto Uprising at 75: What Popular Depictions Miss
Posted on August 23, 2024
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| Kelle Repass
Seventy-five years ago Thursday, on April 19, 1943, a small group of starving young Jews trapped in the Warsaw Ghetto mounted their now legendary rebellion against the Nazi juggernaut. Defying all odds these desperately under-armed militants held off the German war machine for nearly a month.
This moment of bravery, of courage in the face of certain death, seems as though it were a David versus Goliath story, tailor-made for an American audience.
[Read More]WEST GERMANY: The Embers | TIME
Posted on August 23, 2024
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| Patria Henriques
“Fascists out, fascists out!” yelled hecklers. But the speaker of the German Reich Party meeting in Hamburg last week went right on with his hoarse oratory. “It is not historical,” he cried, “to accuse the Germans of starting the war against Poland in 1939.” Wrote Die Zeit’s reporter: “The man next to me covered his face with his hands and said, ‘It can’t be true.’ “
It was not true, but the outbreak of anti-Semitic incidents after the Christmas smearing of swastikas on the Cologne synagogue jolted West Germany into taking a new and disgusted look at the neo-Nazi Deutsche Reichs-Partei.
[Read More]Why Actors Are Going on Strike
Posted on August 23, 2024
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| Patria Henriques
Just after midnight on the West Coast, the contracts between the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) expired—meaning that a deal between the two had not been reached. SAG-AFTRA’s negotiating committee unanimously voted to recommend a strike to its national board, which in turn announced a strike Thursday afternoon.
On June 5, nearly 65,000 of the approximately 160,000 members that make up SAG-AFTRA approved a strike authorization with a 97.
[Read More]Why the 'All Eyes on Rafah' AI Post Is Going Viral on Social Media
Posted on August 23, 2024
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| Patria Henriques
Nearly 45 million Instagram users—including celebrities like Bella Hadid and Nicola Coughlan—have shared an AI-generated image depicting tent camps for displaced Palestinians and a slogan that reads “all eyes on Rafah,” according to a Wednesday afternoon count by Instagram.
The sharing of the post comes amid criticism from the international community regarding Rafah, which rests on the southern Gaza Strip near the Egyptian border, and has been the subject of intense bombing by Israeli troops.
[Read More]Why We Love to Talk About Demons
Posted on August 23, 2024
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| Martina Birk
The Franciscan Sisters of Earling, Iowa took an unusual lodger into their convent in 1928, a 46 year old woman named Emma Schmidt with a history of demonic possession. A pious Roman Catholic who’d suffered a traumatic childhood, for several decades, Schmidt had occasionally exhibited frightening behaviors, including the screaming of blasphemous obscenity and violent aversion to holy ritual objects. Now, behind the nunnery’s stone walls in that flat and prosaic Midwestern hamlet, a distraught Schmidt was institutionalized for several months.
[Read More]You Asked: Are Infrared Saunas Healthy?
Posted on August 23, 2024
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| Kelle Repass
From the Jewish schvitz to Mesoamerican “houses of heat,” people all over the world have long associated a good sweat with a wide assortment of health benefits. And some of the latest research seems to support those ideas.
One long-term study of middle-aged Finnish men found those who spent time in a sauna 2-3 days a week enjoyed a 23% drop in their risk for a fatal heart disease or episode.
[Read More]19 Best Movies New to Streaming in April: Zone of Interest, Anyone but You, Lat
Posted on August 22, 2024
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| Martina Birk
Oscar-winning dramas and box office genre hits are making their way to streaming platforms this month. Far and away the best movie set to premiere is Jonathan Glazer’s “The Zone of Interest,” a disturbing masterwork about the Holocaust that picked up two Academy Awards last month: best international feature and best sound design.
[Read More]5 careers that do not require you to have mathematics skills
Posted on August 22, 2024
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| Patria Henriques
Although many jobs require graduates and job applicants to have Mathematics skills, this does not mean there are no other high-paying jobs out there for people like you who do not find Mathematics appealing. Check out the five careers that do not require you to have Mathematics skills. ADVERTISEMENT
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[Read More]9 countries with the most nuclear weapons
Posted on August 22, 2024
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| Billy Koelling
Here are the countries with the most nuclear weapons;
According to Statista, “There were approximately 13,080 nuclear warheads worldwide as of January 2021, and almost 90 per cent of them belong to two countries: the United States and Russia.”
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