QUICK FACTS Date: Night of Oct. 5, 1923 Where: Mount Wilson Observatory, near Pasadena, California Who: Edwin Hubble On the night of Oct. 5 to 6, 1923, Edwin Hubble discovered a new star — and revealed the utter vastness of the universe. Hubble was looking at the cosmos with the 100-inch Hooker telescope at the Mount Wilson Observatory near Pasadena, …
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Ben Kindel looks like he’s about to join an elite club of players who make the NHL debut in the same regular season as the year they were drafted. To make matters even more impressive, the lion share of the impact of draft+1 NHLers tends to be at the very top of the draft in the first few picks. Last …
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We’ve been working on a new show for the last few months, called Version History, and the first episode is now live! It’s called “Hoverboards: so hot right now,” and it’s an hour-long tour of the biggest rideable gadget of the 2010s. Hidden inside the history of this weird two-wheeled scooter is a crucial inflection point in Chinese tech manufacturing, …
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Ryan Day now has a higher career winning percentage than college football’s all-time leader in head coach winning percentage. With 75 wins in 85 games, Ryan Day’s winning percentage of 88.2% has surpassed that of Notre Dame legend Knute Rockne, college football’s all-time leader in career winning percentage with a mark of 88.1%. When asked about the achievement after the …
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Taylor Swift ‘tloas’ album Amc release party breaks record on opening day!!! Published October 4, 2025 10:38 AM PDT Taylor Swift not only dropped the album of the year on Friday, AMC Theatres also released the surprise cinematic experience “Taylor Swift | The Official Release Party of a Showgirl” … and let’s just say the Swifties not only showed up, …
Read More »Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl backlash part of history for Latino performers at sports events Axios Former racer Danica Patrick slams NFL for hiring Bad Bunny for Super Bowl: ‘No songs in English should not be allowed’ Yahoo ICE Agents Will Be at Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Halftime Show, Says Trump Adviser People.com Opinion | Bad Bunny Is How You Beat Trump The New York …
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WASHINGTON — Immigration and Customs Enforcement released new information about the criminal history and immigration status of former Des Moines Public Schools Superintendent Ian Roberts. ICE reports that Roberts is now in custody of the U.S. Marshals, and he will be prosecuted for his crimes. The department reports on Thursday, he was criminally charged with being an illegal alien in …
Read More »For the first time in human history, Calif.’s glaciers will soon disappear SFGATE California’s Ancient Glaciers Are Melting Away for the First Time in Human History KQED A surprising new fact just emerged about California’s glaciers San Francisco Chronicle DAILY DIGEST, 10/2: Sierra Nevada’s glaciers will soon be gone; Kern County supports the Delta Conveyance Project; Governor Newsom signs SB 72; Would-be federal …
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Three converging events in the 1970s – the Watergate scandal, the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from the Vietnam War and revelations that FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover had abused his power to persecute people and organizations he viewed as political enemies – destroyed what formerly had been near-automatic trust in the presidency and the FBI. In response, Congress enacted reforms designed …
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