Huge plumes of smoke have been seen rising from Gaza City as deadly Israeli air attacks intensify and ground forces advance, killing 18 in the city and four elsewhere, according to our team on the ground.Gaza’s Health Ministry has warned that patients are facing “certain death” as hospitals in the besieged territory may have to…
Back in the late 19th century, sideshow audiences couldn’t get enough of two unlikely performers: George Moore, “The Living Skeleton,” and Fred Howe, “The Fatman.” 📖 According to The Strand Magazine (1897), Howe once tried carpentry but grew “too fat” for the trade, eventually weighing 422 lbs at just 4’2”. Moore, born in Montana, stood…
Britain, Australia, and Canada on Sunday recognized a Palestinian state in a seismic shift in decades of Western foreign policy, triggering swift Israeli anger. Portugal was also to recognize Palestinian statehood later Sunday, as Israel came under huge international pressure over the war in Gaza triggered almost two years ago by the October 7, 2023,…
